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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Am I seeing double/triple?!
Csnoopy, just a quick OT question here. Why do you post 2 posts in quick succession after each other most of the time, why don’t you just wait a minute longer, and type everything you want to say and post it in One post? It's just been bugging me, thats all.

Back to the topic:
My new soon to be ISP, Cybersmart :| , sells accounts with X amount of data allocated to it at RX. They also have a product where you can Pay, say R30/60/90 a month extra to get like roll over of that data up to 3/10/Unlimited GB. I think this seems acceptable in the market to charge More for data that rolls over then. Anyway the only way I see VC providing this, is at a higher rate unfortunately.
 
@Csnoopy, I have no control over this confidential vote thing. ic probably changed it at someones request to possibly prevent people who vote no from receiving very descriptive "fan mail" from the people who voted yes :p
 
ld13 said:
Am I seeing double/triple?!
Csnoopy, just a quick OT question here. Why do you post 2 posts in quick succession after each other most of the time, why don’t you just wait a minute longer, and type everything you want to say and post it in One post? It's just been bugging me, thats all.
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Point taken. There is a reason I did it like that.:rolleyes:
 
All Vodacom Subscribers need Data Bundle Rollover
As the name suggests we NEED data bundle rollover because of the following reasons:
  1. You will get full value for your money.
  2. There won't be any end of bundle anxiety attacks to use up your bundle before it expires.
  3. You can buy a bigger bundle than you normally use per month at a cheaper per megabyte cost.
  4. The bigger bundle will allow you some leeway in your usage so you don't have to watch your usage like a hawk for fear of going into the dreaded out-of-bundle territory.
  5. Avoiding the monthly frustration of not being able to access your usage on the Vodacom4me website.
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Csnoopy said:
If all is still ontrack how many votes do we still need?
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What the poll currently shows, is that consumers definitely want Data Bundle Rollover, or more accurately, Data Bundles that last for longer than 1 month, I don't see the percentages changing much with more votes, although I think it would be nice to get 500 votes or more.

Having said that, I think the issue is more a case of 'what would Vodacom & MTN get out of offering Data Bundles that last for 90 days or longer?' - apart from the bunch of angry consumers that already feel Vodacom and MTN are cheating them out of data that has already been bought and paid for.

One specific motivating factor, for Vodacom, is the potential to further reduce load on backhaul links, considering that Vodacom intends to lay its own fibre, offering Data Bundles that are valid for at least 90 days [and longer], would [1] spread the load on backhaul links and [2] allow Vodacom considerably more time before existing backhaul links currently rented from Telkodemonopolies, become saturated and in need of a costly capacity upgrade from Telkodemonopolies.

IOW, reduce the load on existing backhaul links, which means that a significant number of backhaul links would not need a capacity upgrade from Telkodemonopolies, for at least a good few months, which then gives Vodacom time to lay its own fibre for at least the busiest of base-stations and clusters thereof, instead of forking out additional money to Telkodemonopolies to upgrade backhaul links that Vodacom would like to replace with its own fibre, and the way to accomplish all of this, would be to offer Data Bundles that last for at least 90 days.
 
Csnoopy said:
If all is still ontrack how many votes do we still need?
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ic said:
What the poll currently shows, is that consumers definitely want Data Bundle Rollover, or more accurately, Data Bundles that last for longer than 1 month, I don't see the percentages changing much with more votes, although I think it would be nice to get 500 votes or more.
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Yeah, the trend might not change, but I think we need a lot more votes to make Vodacom take notice. I'm working on a few options;)

ic said:
Having said that, I think the issue is more a case of 'what would Vodacom & MTN get out of offering Data Bundles that last for 90 days or longer?' - apart from the bunch of angry consumers that already feel Vodacom and MTN are cheating them out of data that has already been bought and paid for.

One specific motivating factor, for Vodacom, is the potential to further reduce load on backhaul links, considering that Vodacom intends to lay its own fibre, offering Data Bundles that are valid for at least 90 days [and longer], would [1] spread the load on backhaul links and [2] allow Vodacom considerably more time before existing backhaul links currently rented from Telkodemonopolies, become saturated and in need of a costly capacity upgrade from Telkodemonopolies.

IOW, reduce the load on existing backhaul links, which means that a significant number of backhaul links would not need a capacity upgrade from Telkodemonopolies, for at least a good few months, which then gives Vodacom time to lay its own fibre for at least the busiest of base-stations and clusters thereof, instead of forking out additional money to Telkodemonopolies to upgrade backhaul links that Vodacom would like to replace with its own fibre, and the way to accomplish all of this, would be to offer Data Bundles that last for at least 90 days.
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My previous comments were advantages for the consumer, and yours are advantages for Vodacom. Nice complete argument:D
 
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sky.akash said:
My previous comments were advantages for the consumer, and yours are advantages for Vodacom. Nice complete argument:D
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Cause & effect: I saw your post & realised that we needed something to sweeten the deal for Vodacom's beancounters simply bcos satisfying customer requirements in a competitive environment is not something that beancounters actually see as being important - there has to be a real financial incentive if Data Bundle Rollover is ever to be implemented...
 
ic said:
Cause & effect: I saw your post & realised that we needed something to sweeten the deal for Vodacom's beancounters simply bcos satisfying customer requirements in a competitive environment is not something that beancounters actually see as being important - there has to be a real financial incentive if Data Bundle Rollover is ever to be implemented...
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Was oobr & No Rollover approved by ICASA?

1) Has there been any discussions with Vodacom accept via v3g?
2) @v3g Any feedback from passage talk about Rollover?
3) Will this now have to go to ICASA for approval? Could take a long time?

:cool:
 
In the latest VODAWORLD magazine - page 8

Letters to "Editor's Inbox" have a letter from Shivan Singh in Durban
He questions the non roll over of Data bundles.

Editors response:

"Vodacom now allows its customers to carry over any of remaining bytes to the next month"
 
Donsy said:
In the latest VODAWORLD magazine - page 8

Letters to "Editor's Inbox" have a letter from Shivan Singh in Durban
He questions the non roll over of Data bundles.

Editors response:

"Vodacom now allows its customers to carry over any of remaining bytes to the next month"
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Sony_3G said:
its been discussed earlier in this topic
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Yep, discussed twice already;)
 
Roll over would be really nice. You can already rollover you free minutes, why not your data? I casted my vote in favor of rollovers
 
Donsy said:
In the latest VODAWORLD magazine - page 8

Letters to "Editor's Inbox" have a letter from Shivan Singh in Durban
He questions the non roll over of Data bundles.

Editors response:

"Vodacom now allows its customers to carry over any of remaining bytes to the next month"
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From Vodacom customercare.


Thank you for your email communication to Vodacom.

We apologise for the confusion that this matter has caused.

Please note that any unused data does not carry over to the following month. A retraction regarding this error will appear in Yebo News of this month and the next issue of the Vodaworld magazine.

Should you have any further queries, please contact us via e-mail at [email protected].

Warm Regards

Roderique Lategan

Email Contact Centre
 
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