DONT SIGN ANY CONTRACTS NOW !

hoegh said:
the idea does need refining but the concept is pretty good I think, you subscribe to one of the petrol stations and you get given a card which you can only use at their stations, at the end of the month you get billed for your usage, hang on....this sounds like a petrol card, but I can't understand why petrol stations haven't at least offered value cards to their customers who use their stations regularly.

It would be nice if the petrol price was free market and you could sign contracts with suppliers and get discounts and rewards for being brand loyal.
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It's not legal, no matter how sensible. Boycotts (or botcotts) will only work if everyone participated, in a country that has 11 languages, multitudes of political parties and a general "I'm the most important being in the universe" attitude, no initiative like this will ever prevail.

That said, I don't think the OP was calling for mass action, he was giving sound advice from an apparently informed standpoint, and as advice goes you can take it or leave it. :)
 
@ DXL - Thanks! :D

In light of the current financial crisis, it was bound to happen. People already started to cut off all unnecessary expenses long ago - and now it is the service providers' turn to squeal and either lower their prices, offer the customer more goodies for less money, and attract more customers in order to maintain current profit levels - or go down into the cold, dark night...

as for iBurst - I don't hold any hope for them, they're too far gone by now.
 
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5. Iburst has been under pressure lately with all the negative vibes about their service. Expect something new from them too.
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really? and I've been hearing about their 2Mbps service since 2006! So new pricing is most likely going to be another INCREASE in bandwidth price and lower contract bandwidth...
 
DXL said:
1. The Consumer Protection Bill is very close to being signed into law.
Under Current contract conditions all data is valid for the duration of the month it is paid for, ( i.e no carry over of data ) so if you are stuck in a contract, you have to abide by those rules and regulations till the end of the Term.

2. Icasa has mandated that Contracts ( which Vodacom has delayed till 1st Feb 2009 ) The actual price for Hardware ( I.e Phones, data cards & modems ) be separated from the actual cost of providing the services required. What that means is simply that if you are paying R49 per month for your Modem and R100 per month for your Data is must be clearly shown to you the Consumer.

3. Neotel has Cut the out of Bundle rate to 8c per megabyte and this could have a domino effect on all the other operators.

4. Telkom is Launching their 3G Network and nobody's gonna be interested if the price is not in the customers favour.

5. Iburst has been under pressure lately with all the negative vibes about their service. Expect something new from them too.

6. MTN is by no means a pushover and they hate losing customers and will not let anyone have better pricing than them ( As I type this post , MTN is working on some fantastic Surprises for us all ).

7. Vodacom as usual keeps prices high until they are forced to reduce with no choice.

8. Cell-C and Virgin as usual will surprise in some other area which we have no idea OFF.


So Dont SIGN any new WIRELESS DATA CONTRACTS for at least another 6 months and you will be enjoying the fruits of COMPETITION.

I dont Deal with the PETROL price ! Its GOVT regulated ( raymond ackerman has been trying for years to sell petrol a few cents cheaper and he was not allowed to do so )


DXL - Mobile
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Thanks for the summary of pertinent info DXL.

(I for one am holding out on signing a cellular contract for some of the reasons mentioned here.)
 
Rocket-Boy said:
Go mr conspiracy theory guy.
Sure they project income revenue etc from it, but I can matter of factly tell you for sure that a. no one will support this and b. they wont change anything.
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Well, not tying yourself down for two years is always good advice IMO. :)
 
My contract expires in 11 days. This is going to be tough as I kinda need a phone with phonability on it :D
 
DXL said:
6. MTN is by no means a pushover and they hate losing customers and will not let anyone have better pricing than them ( As I type this post , MTN is working on some fantastic Surprises for us all ).

7. Vodacom as usual keeps prices high until they are forced to reduce with no choice.
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Funny - I was under the impression that MTN tended to follow the price drops...
 
tomatosarefruit said:
Well, not tying yourself down for two years is always good advice IMO. :)
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Not tying yourself down is a good thing, but when you are on the service for two years anyway then you realise that you have missed out on a free phone and you paid more for the airtime/bandwidth that you used anyway (at that point feel free to kick yourself)
 
Well, 7 days till my contract expires. Not really much choice here - and so far it looks like VC is better than MTN (even if I was really keen to port my number over).

hmm... I wonder if it would be possible to transfer my work sim card to my personal capacity?
 
Rocket-Boy said:
Not tying yourself down is a good thing, but when you are on the service for two years anyway then you realise that you have missed out on a free phone and you paid more for the airtime/bandwidth that you used anyway (at that point feel free to kick yourself)
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What free phone? ;)
The diffs is you can't minimize your spend beyond the contract amount. And if you want to leave the country...
 
Change Providers

The trick will be to change providers regularly on 3G.

LOYALTY DOES'NT PAY YOUR BILLS !

We need mass Churn when a provider offers lower prices.

MASS Churn gets Operators Thinking !

PREPAID ! The FREEDOM 2 CHOOSE & MOVE

DXL - Team
 
DXL said:
I dont Deal with the PETROL price ! Its GOVT regulated ( raymond ackerman has been trying for years to sell petrol a few cents cheaper and he was not allowed to do so )
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Well said... I wondered what these other guys were blubbering on about!! Whether BP wanted to reduce the price of petrol, or not, would not matter as all service stations charge what the government says. Further to this, this price is linked to the oil price and I really cannot see that the Saudis are going be too worried, and shivering in their pants, about Mr Blogs who refuses to fill his 50L petrol at BP!!! :D

Even when worldwide demand for oil drops, as it has now, they merely drop their supply to stimulate the price to the level they would like!

Anyway, back on topic! I think there was nothing wrong with your first post DXL and it made perfect sense to me. I hear many calls for more elaboration and context but I can tell you for a fact that most posts on this forum are one liners with very little detail! Perhaps it was the fact that your post count is not over 1000 that promoted the calls..... anyway no harm in warning people as not everyone will be aware of what is happening in the data market currently.
 
However, I understand the part about not signing data contracts but surely a cell phone contract will not make a difference?

You sign for a monthly package but then that package charges you for data at a certain rate... now surely if the data costs were to decrease you would benefit from this anyway as the in and out of bundle costs will decrease? Your monthly subscription may not go down but you would get more data with your Anytime 200 R200 worth of use as it will drop? They will surely not have an old data price and a new data price?
 
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