Have your say, vote for Data Bundle Rollover

If Data Bundles lasted longer than 30 days, would you buy larger Data Bundes?

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 3 months; OR

    Votes: 91 13.7%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 4 months; OR

    Votes: 2 0.3%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 5 months; OR

    Votes: 2 0.3%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 6 months; OR

    Votes: 30 4.5%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 7 months; OR

    Votes: 1 0.2%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 8 months; OR

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles valid for 9 months; OR

    Votes: 5 0.8%

  • Yes, I'm prepared to pay more upfront for larger Data Bundles with no expiry date; OR

    Votes: 92 13.8%

  • Yes, I want Data Bundle Rollover - but I do not want to pay more; OR

    Votes: 437 65.6%

  • No, I do not want Data Bundle Rollover.

    Votes: 6 0.9%
  • Total voters
    666
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They need the Bucks guys,. cmon,...

Agh shame guys,.. they need the Bucks,.. Them bellies aint hanging far enough over their belts as yet,..
So until further notice,. we got our 30c a meg,.. now can it with the disabilities pension,..
note the touch of sarcasm,...
putting up with this is contributing to the situation,..
 
This thread has my support. What also peeves me off is: If your MTN data bundle is up before the month is over you are not allowed to get another with your current sim.
 
sky.akash said:
I see that this thread is now stickied again, ic:)
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Yep been re-stuck for a while now - I re-applied the digital glue at 13:20, 7th Aug 2007.

I have been considering moving this thread as a sticky into the Cellular forum - both Vodacom and MTN customers should be voting for DBR, as well as anyone that currently avoids using data bundles as a result of no DBR.

There should be a competitive race between both Vodacom and MTN to implement DBR - it is what data consumers want, and there are definite advantages for both Vodacom and MTN, for example, if both Vodacom and MTN are waiting endlessly for Telkodemonopolies to upgrade the bandwidth [capacity] of backhaul links, and both Vodacom and MTN want to remain competitive by upgrading their HSDPA networks to 3.6Mbits/s, then DBR will alleviate congestion of backhaul links bcos customers using DBR would spread their usage out over a longer period of time, and that means that the capacity of backhaul links would need to be upgraded less frequently...
 
ic said:
There should be a competitive race between both Vodacom and MTN to implement DBR - it is what data consumers want, and there are definite advantages for both Vodacom and MTN, for example, if both Vodacom and MTN are waiting endlessly for Telkodemonopolies to upgrade the bandwidth [capacity] of backhaul links, and both Vodacom and MTN want to remain competitive by upgrading their HSDPA networks to 3.6Mbits/s, then DBR will alleviate congestion of backhaul links bcos customers using DBR would spread their usage out over a longer period of time, and that means that the capacity of backhaul links would need to be upgraded less frequently...
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Makes perfect sense to me! I can't see what the hassle is with implementing it is. And you can be certain as soon as one of them implements it the other will follow (kinda like the cold war?). Should we be mailing customer services on a daily basis requesting roll over? Does the forum allow for some kind of petition or can the votes be used to generate one?
 
morkhans said:
Makes perfect sense to me! I can't see what the hassle is with implementing it is. And you can be certain as soon as one of them implements it the other will follow (kinda like the cold war?). Should we be mailing customer services on a daily basis requesting roll over? Does the forum allow for some kind of petition or can the votes be used to generate one?
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We already have a direct communication channel: v3g. Customer Service doesn't have the power to effect such a fundamental change - they are a support channel and are unlikely to have any influence over the various development teams, whereas v3g has a glass jar containing all the ears of top management & project managers - from CEO downwards. As v3g has pointed out many times, there are lots of suggestions from forumites here, that Vodacom has implemented.
 
sky.akash said:
Maybe keep this thread here and have shortcuts to it in the MTN and cellular sections if it is possible?:)
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Good idea, done :), unfortunately the redirect links will just drop to the bottom of the post queue soon.
 
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ic said:
We already have a direct communication channel: v3g. Customer Service doesn't have the power to effect such a fundamental change - they are a support channel and are unlikely to have any influence over the various development teams, whereas v3g has a glass jar containing all the ears of top management & project managers - from CEO downwards. As v3g has pointed out many times, there are lots of suggestions from forumites here, that Vodacom has implemented.
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Cool, so we should just buy v3g lots of beers so he can shake up the glass jar to the sweet sound of roll-over :p
 
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As some of you may know the international connectivity on ADSL has been down yesterday and just went down again about half an hour ago.
I plugged in the office's E220 yesterday and today and had fast international connectivity.

We had discussions with our IT engineer about using 3G as a backup when ADSL goes down. He agreed that at R389 per 2GB it would be a viable alternative, but after telling him that the data does not rollover he wasn't so convinced anymore.
 
ajax said:
As some of you may know the international connectivity on ADSL has been down yesterday and just went down again about half an hour ago.
I plugged in the office's E220 yesterday and today and had fast international connectivity.

We had discussions with our IT engineer about using 3G as a backup when ADSL goes down. He agreed that at R389 per 2GB it would be a viable alternative, but after telling him that the data does not rollover he wasn't so convinced anymore.
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As a backup medium, roll-over should not be an issue.

Build the backup architeture but use a pre-paid sim, with no data on it, in the 3G router. When the link fails, load a bundle and off you go. Monitor usage and keep on topping up till the primary link returns.
 
vodacom3g said:
As a backup medium, roll-over should not be an issue.

Build the backup architeture but use a pre-paid sim, with no data on it, in the 3G router. When the link fails, load a bundle and off you go. Monitor usage and keep on topping up till the primary link returns.
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But they might also need a plan C if Vodacom fails;)
 
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