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Can airtime on MyChoice Topup contracts be used to buy data bundles?
Why I ask is because I'd like to get the following:

There's a special out on MyChoice Topup 75: Pay R35 a month and get R105 airtime a month for 24 months. Includes CLIP and itemised billing is optional extra. So if I topup the R105 airtime with a R15 voucher each month, and get two of these deals then I can get 350 MB for R85 per month which is 24c/MB

I don't want to sign for this deal and later on MTN cancels data bundles on this. Can they do that or would that be in breach of the contract?
 
On the MyChoice topup you can not transfer any of the airtime to a data bundle. You have to purchase a data bundle separately that will be billed at the end of the month.

This does not stop you from using your airtime at R2 per MB which works out at 52.5MB for R35 R0.66 per MB.

I do not know if the Special is still running.

Sean
 
You have to purchase an additional Data Bundle on the Mychoice 75 Topup contacts. (i.e you cannot convert airtime to data bundles )

If you have depleted the data bundle bundle before the end of the month, the airtime will be used for data albeit at the out of bundle rates for the particular data bundle:

R2.00/MB after a 10 MB bundle was depleted,
R1.50/MB after a 100 MB or 350 MB bundle was depleted,
R1.25/MB after a 1 GB bundle is depleted.

If you choose not to purchase a data bundle, you could use the R75 + R30 airtime as data at R2.00/MB which gives you 52.5 MB.

This works out at an effective R0.67/MB for the 52.5 MB

Hope this helps.

:)
 
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Ok thanks, thought it was too good to be true. Strange MTN's site says you can use it for data...

EDIT: Well, the call costs are quite good. It's R2.10 for a peak call on topup. The discount means you effectively pay a third, so 70c/min. Not bad.
 
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ajax said:
Can airtime on MyChoice Topup contracts be used to buy data bundles?
Why I ask is because I'd like to get the following:

There's a special out on MyChoice Topup 75: Pay R35 a month and get R105 airtime a month for 24 months. Includes CLIP and itemised billing is optional extra. So if I topup the R105 airtime with a R15 voucher each month, and get two of these deals then I can get 350 MB for R85 per month which is 24c/MB

I don't want to sign for this deal and later on MTN cancels data bundles on this. Can they do that or would that be in breach of the contract?
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Good day,

You can use the MyChoice top up for data but you can't use it to convert into data, if you want a data bundle you'll have to get one on top of the contract in terms of the CLIP and Itemized bill you must let me know if there are issues around that and I'll forward those to the MTNSP manager to address as there have been a couple of complaints regarding this.

MTNDD
 
Would it be accurate to say that you can't convert the airtime into bundles as the profit margin on data is already low whereas with voice calls the profit margin is large hence the large "discount?"
 
ajax said:
Would it be accurate to say that you can't convert the airtime into bundles as the profit margin on data is already low whereas with voice calls the profit margin is large hence the large "discount?"
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You can only covert airtime to a data bundle when you're on prepaid on any of the MYCHOICE packages you can't convert...........


MTNDD
 
ajax said:
Includes CLIP and itemised billing is optional extra.
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As long as things like CLIP and itemised billing are either optional or included in the advertised price. Places like Nashua and Autopage still pull a con where they advertise a low monthly price, then try to charge for all sorts of 'mandatory' extras. If it's mandatory then it is just an included feature, not something for which you can charge in addition to the advertised price.
 
noxibox said:
As long as things like CLIP and itemised billing are either optional or included in the advertised price. Places like Nashua and Autopage still pull a con where they advertise a low monthly price, then try to charge for all sorts of 'mandatory' extras. If it's mandatory then it is just an included feature, not something for which you can charge in addition to the advertised price.
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If you're with MTNSP and you have a problem whereby they don't tell you upfront that you get charged for CLI and so forth then let me know I'll pop it over to the manager of MTNSP and he can take it up for you.

MTNDD
 
MTN SP themselves do generally disclose this these days - most of their adverts have the real monthly cost printed large and the breakdown of the total in small text, but Autopage and Nashua in particular advertise with deceptive prices. iTalk too last time I checked. And each has their own monthly cost for CLI and itemised billing.

Basically each of them needs to be hit with a big fat fine each time they do it. I'm sure they'd soon stop.
 
noxibox said:
MTN SP themselves do generally disclose this these days - most of their adverts have the real monthly cost printed large and the breakdown of the total in small text, but Autopage and Nashua in particular advertise with deceptive prices. iTalk too last time I checked. And each has their own monthly cost for CLI and itemised billing.
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yeah, the add states the subscription as R27.41 and CLIP as R7.59. There's a once off connection and sim fee of R236.80. I saved R200 on Vodacom when I bought a prepaid sim for R2 and had that converted to contract. Maybe you can pull the same trick on MTN.
 
ajax said:
yeah, the add states the subscription as R27.41 and CLIP as R7.59. There's a once off connection and sim fee of R236.80. I saved R200 on Vodacom when I bought a prepaid sim for R2 and had that converted to contract. Maybe you can pull the same trick on MTN.
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Exactly what I did a month ago, bought a sim for R3.99 and told MTNSP to convert to contract. This has the advantage of saving the huge amount of money:) for the sim but also the added advantage of choosing a number for you that you like:D . Basically I went to Pepstores, going through all their pre-paid and choose a number that I like. and give the number of the simcard to MTNSP.
 
jalize said:
Exactly what I did a month ago, bought a sim for R3.99 and told MTNSP to convert to contract. This has the advantage of saving the huge amount of money:) for the sim but also the added advantage of choosing a number for you that you like:D . Basically I went to Pepstores, going through all their pre-paid and choose a number that I like. and give the number of the simcard to MTNSP.
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Sounds like you pretty happy with MTNSP then?

MTNDD
 
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