Have your say, vote for Data Bundle Rollover

[AirWolf]

Sure ic, I think a change of title is necessary Please go ahead.

 

[kronoSX]

I have noticed that 500megs is just to little for me now,My bundles is nearly finished,I was to scared to buy more as i knew the data expired this friday.Well lets hope they have a roll over policy next time i buy

 

[ic]

I have noticed that 500megs is just to little for me now,My bundles is nearly finished,I was to scared to buy more as i knew the data expired this friday.Well lets hope they have a roll over policy next time i buy

Same problem - I 'doubled' my 500MB Ad-Hoc Data Bundle from last month to a 1GB Data Bundle this month, and thanks to Telkodemonopolies and one day of downtime on ADSL and needing to urgently download VMware Workstation 6 [Windoze & Linux], I used up quite a lot of my data bundle - also thanks to VMware's server repeatedly giving my download manager lots of 403 forbidden errors after ~46MB , ideally I would like to buy a 5GB Data Bundle that has no time limit and only expires when the 5GB is used up...

 

[Syndyre]

ic's scenario with a 5GB bundle is definitely ideal.

 

[AirWolf]

5 GB for R899 with unlimited rollover anyone?

 

[pengwin]

agree.. or even why even have "bundles" - why not have a charge of like 19c/mb and you pay for what you use, so if i use 100MB i pay for 100MB if i used 5gig then i pay for 5gig, with an option to cap the "monthly" amount - so you cap per price amount, then you dont need to worry about rollover, because you're in anyways going to pay for what you use.. - the systems are already in place to bill for this because thats how they "charge" us for oob rates - so just flick the switch and make it happen... put your money where your mouth is VC an be "the best supporters of SA supporters" - as at the end of the day its OUR money thats you've got... rather than paying royalties for stupid songs for that stupid *rat* to dance to, how about helping your "customers" out .. lets see ..

ic's scenario with a 5GB bundle is definitely ideal.

 

[ic]

IMO Vodacom doesn't have to drop its existing Data Bundles - call them products, what Vodacom needs to do is to create new Data Bundle products that have a slightly different set of business rules attached to them - mainly expiration differs from the traditional Data Bundles - my reason for suggesting this is to make this a more palatable R&D option compared to messing with what already works in Vodacom's systems, also let us forumites do the beta testing for such new Data Bundle Rollover Products - this would avoid the widespread problems with PPDBs...

As for dropping Data Bundles completely in favour of a flat rate, yes I would also like that, but I know that will never happen - Vodacom's systems would need a complete rewrite to handle that - I am personally prepared to accept Data Bundle Rollover as a compromise.

 

[biometrics]

I for one won't buy any product that doesn't roll over. That's why I use WebAfrica prepaid for my ADSL. Until Vodacom changes their tune I won't be buying any bundles. I'll simply restrict my mobile usage as far as possible.

 

[biometrics]

Just realized, we do have rollover, it's at R2/MB in 1 MB bundles.

WebAfrica = R 70 / GB
Vodacom = R 2048 / GB.

 

[ic]

Just realized, we do have rollover, it's at R2/MB in 1 MB bundles.

WebAfrica = R 70 / GB
Vodacom = R 2048 / GB.

Very good point you have there .

Must say I'm very disappointed with Vodacom's "Call Limit" service or maybe it was the info I was given by the call centre person that activated it for me: it appears as if one cannot use up one's remaining in-bundle data when the specified Call Limit ZAR-value has been reached - or so I was told, now if we had Data Bundles that lasted for longer than 1 month then I would not need to bother with Call Limit - I would simply buy a larger data bundle knowing that it would last until completely used up...

@v3g, please could you put in a request for the implementation of a separate OOB Data Limit system that measures amount in MB and not ZAR? - this Call Limit thing is somewhat useless IMO.

 

[AirWolf]

How many votes will be a reasonable figure to carry any weight with Vodacom?

 

[vodacom3g]

Very good point you have there .

Must say I'm very disappointed with Vodacom's "Call Limit" service or maybe it was the info I was given by the call centre person that activated it for me: it appears as if one cannot use up one's remaining in-bundle data when the specified Call Limit ZAR-value has been reached - or so I was told, now if we had Data Bundles that lasted for longer than 1 month then I would not need to bother with Call Limit - I would simply buy a larger data bundle knowing that it would last until completely used up...

@v3g, please could you put in a request for the implementation of a separate OOB Data Limit system that measures amount in MB and not ZAR? - this Call Limit thing is somewhat useless IMO.

Will do. Are you awake? Give me a call when you can, I just want to make 100% sure I understand you.

 

[ic]

Will do. Are you awake? Give me a call when you can, I just want to make 100% sure I understand you.

Did you get the msg I left for you on your voicemail?

Looks like the winning poll option is going to be 'we want data bundle rollover and do not want to pay extra for it', some more votes & more posts would be nice - even if it is to lend support to the leading poll option - don't delay, cast your votes now!!! .

 

[Syndyre]

As for dropping Data Bundles completely in favour of a flat rate, yes I would also like that, but I know that will never happen - Vodacom's systems would need a complete rewrite to handle that - I am personally prepared to accept Data Bundle Rollover as a compromise.

A flat rate also probably wouldn't work in terms of the contract packages they offer etc.

 

[ic]

As for dropping Data Bundles completely in favour of a flat rate, yes I would also like that, but I know that will never happen - Vodacom's systems would need a complete rewrite to handle that - I am personally prepared to accept Data Bundle Rollover as a compromise.

A flat rate also probably wouldn't work in terms of the contract packages they offer etc.

True, but it could work with something like VM's VRewards - basically where one pays less per MB [sliding scale] the more data one transfers without a data bundle, unfortunately it will not happen in our lifetimes - and if it did we would probably all peg off from the shock-factor .

 

[Syndyre]

True, but it could work with something like VM's VRewards - basically where one pays less per MB [sliding scale] the more data one transfers without a data bundle, unfortunately it will not happen in our lifetimes - and if it did we would probably all peg off from the shock-factor .

True, I also think though that there are a lot of people that don't use much data and wouldn't benefit from a bundle so if the OOBR was to drop Vodacom would lose a lot of revenue from these customers.

 

[ic]

True, I also think though that there are a lot of people that don't use much data and wouldn't benefit from a bundle so if the OOBR was to drop Vodacom would lose a lot of revenue from these customers.

Possibly: if Vodacom abolished OOBR or drastically reduced OOBR, there might be a lot more people in contention for the same base-stations - even if it's just sitting on the network for MXit with low usage, which creates problems due to Cell Breathing, so there is at least one valid reason for having an OOBR, having said that, I think Vodacom should reduce its OOBR across-the-board from R2.00/MB to say R1.20/MB as is available with some of the larger contract data bundles - and MTN as well AFAIK...

 

[AirWolf]

Possibly: if Vodacom abolished OOBR or drastically reduced OOBR, there might be a lot more people in contention for the same base-stations - even if it's just sitting on the network for MXit with low usage, which creates problems due to Cell Breathing, so there is at least one valid reason for having an OOBR, having said that, I think Vodacom should reduce its OOBR across-the-board from R2.00/MB to say R1.20/MB as is available with some of the larger contract data bundles - and MTN as well AFAIK...

Yes, I agree

IMO, rollover would certainly attract a lot of support for Vodacom, but as you mentioned about cell-breathing, it will still be a problem if rollover does kick in. Then we'll all get to hear about the hair pulling frustration of some subscribers in certain areas

Just a question out of interest: does wimax also suffer from the cell breathing affliction?

 

[noxibox]

Vodacom's systems would need a complete rewrite to handle that

Surely it should be reconfigure, not rewrite.

 

[ic]

Surely it should be reconfigure, not rewrite.

That would be nice, but unlikely to be in touch with reality: one only has to look at how long it took to get PPDBs out the door to realise that things are quite as easy & simple as that .