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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@ic. How long did it take to get 454 votes? will we ever reach 500?
VC is laughing at us. Poor oukies can't even get 500 votes together aag shame. Maybe 2010 will be our lucky year & we will have 500 votes. :D
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Csnoopy said:
@ic. How long did it take to get 454 votes? will we ever reach 500?
VC is laughing at us. Poor oukies can't even get 500 votes together aag shame. Maybe 2010 will be our lucky year & we will have 500 votes. :D
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How many days has it been since 2007-05-17T17:59?
 
feo said:
Are we gonna have rollover by 2010 perhaps?
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Rollover the ball perhaps.
Csnoopy said:
@ic. How long did it take to get 454 votes? will we ever reach 500?
VC is laughing at us. Poor oukies can't even get 500 votes together aag shame. Maybe 2010 will be our lucky year & we will have 500 votes. :D
:cool:
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Can't look at it that way. 500 is actually a lot of votes for the people that know about this pole and are registered and are using bundles. What the stats are really screaming is that nearly 99% of users want rollover. Votes are representative not absolute and 99% support is better than you can hope for in any vote. For every 100 customers Vodacom has 99 want rollover and any good business will listen to that voice. The question is who will offer rollover first and capture market share. ;)
 
Yep rollover will certainly attract more data customers to the operator that introduces it first:) I'm pretty sure that a lot of people will also move their voice packages too:D
 
Prometheus said:
Can't look at it that way. 500 is actually a lot of votes for the people that know about this pole and are registered and are using bundles. What the stats are really screaming is that nearly 99% of users want rollover. Votes are representative not absolute and 99% support is better than you can hope for in any vote. For every 100 customers Vodacom has 99 want rollover and any good business will listen to that voice. The question is who will offer rollover first and capture market share. ;)
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Yep, although if both Vodacom and MTN offer PPDBs+Rollover, then a small percentage of customers are likely to switch between Vodacom and MTN - the majority of data customers will likely pick one network operator and never switch networks, but if only one network offers PPDBs+Rollover [and obviously CDBs+Rollover] then that network will capture market share very quickly - I expect that MTN will be first to market with DBR in order to catch up to Vodacom ITO number of HSDPA customers.
Saule said:
Yep rollover will certainly attract more data customers to the operator that introduces it first:) I'm pretty sure that a lot of people will also move their voice packages too:D
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Not impossible, but IMO doubtful - just look at how few people have ported between the 3 cellular networks - it's just too much hassle, and if one keeps one's data separate from normal cellular voice [i.e. separate phone & separate HSDPA modem] then one can switch between Vodacom & MTN for HSDPA using PPDBs as many times as one likes without porting numbers.
 
I'm using my top up sim in both my phone and E220. This would not be the case if I could transfer air time from my top up sim. So for me voice and data are linked. But point taken about the hassles of porting.
 
I lost ~ 13MB yesterday :( We had an electrical storm here last night and I couldn't use my pc. I did try a little later on my phone, but I couldn't connect.

That was the end of my 2nd PPBD, and I got a lot more smss' than during the first one.

The smss' received were as follows:
  • One at seven days before expiring informing you about your MB left and expiry date.
  • One at ~95% of your bundle warning you of imminent OOB costs.
  • One upon PPDB expiry (I got my bright and early at 12.06am :eek:)
 
I can actually accept the fact that I will lose data if I don't use it. What I don't find acceptable is when I lose data because I can't access the network to use it.
 
This darn thing has been discussed to death.

Enought now. let's get our boards out and start picketing at Vodacom's doorsteps.

WE WANT ROLLOVER NOW!!!!!!!!

WE WANT ROLLOVER NOW!!!!!!!!

WE WANT ROLLOVER NOW!!!!!!!!

WE WANT ROLLOVER NOW!!!!!!!!

WE WANT ROLLOVER NOW!!!!!!!!

EISH MY DATA BUNDLE. BUT SO BE IT FOR NOW
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I WANT ROLOVER NOW, Lost another 300MB last night when my bundle expired, all because i dont have any 3G access at home!!!!!
 
ic said:
Slow going, but just another 38 to get to 500 votes...
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I havent followed this thread from the start, and i have voted for Rollover... but does anything significant happen at 500 votes?
 
Iam3G said:
I havent followed this thread from the start, and i have voted for Rollover... but does anything significant happen at 500 votes?
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500 votes is simply a target to get to, what if anything happens after that is anyone's guess - I'm guessing that MTN will offer DBR long before Vodacom does.
 
ic said:
500 votes is simply a target to get to, what if anything happens after that is anyone's guess - I'm guessing that MTN will offer DBR long before Vodacom does.
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Most likely they would. But why would Vodacom let MTN beat them to it? We would probably get more data customers, and people take out bigger bundles if that were to happen(IMO at least).
 
Iam3G said:
Most likely they would. But why would Vodacom let MTN beat them to it? We would probably get more data customers, and people take out bigger bundles if that were to happen(IMO at least).
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My reasoning:
  • Vodacom has too many priority backend-projects to complete before DBR can even be considered, one such project is the migration of the Contract Data systems over to the same systems developed for Pre-Paid Data, which would provide Contract Data customers with near-realtime data usage monitoring; AND
  • MTN has a smaller slice of the HSDPA data market, MTN can quickly gain market share simply by offering DBR; AND
  • The potential to alleviate backhaul link congestion by offering DBR resulting in fewer and less frequent backhaul link capacity|bandwidth upgrades.
 
Data bundle rollover

What is needed by Vodacom to implement DBRO? If they can do it on the voice systems then why not the data systems?
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As ic mentioned it is a complex situation and a different system from voice systems. Another problem is the size of VC - a huge beast becomes lethargic and lacks the agility and speed of smaller creatures, something I would call 'poetry in motion'.:D A similar problem affects Telkom couple with other donut eating afflictions:p
 
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