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There seems to be some kind of "secret special" .. with either MTN or Pick n' Pay... 
At the beginning of this week I depleted my 500MB MTN data bundle prematurely..
This was the second month running that this had happened.. so I decided I needed a second MTN simcard for data use.. (seeing as MTN has this annoying policy of only one data bundle every 30 days..)
Anyway so I head off to Pick n' Pay to pick up a new 98c Sim pack.. I bought two of them as my brother had asked me to get him one as well ..
Get home, insert the simcard and dial 141 to activate.. and lo! I get this voice telling me that I've just been credited with R30 free airtime! Sweet!
So I got R30 for 98c .. - in my books that counts as a pretty good bargain..
I thought I might have just been an isolated lucky case, seeing as there was no indication on the starter pack or in the Pick n' Pay that I'd be getting free airtime.. but no, my brothers simcard also got allocated with R30 ..
So as an avid investigator today I decided to get a few more starter packs.. Fourteen more to be precise.. and I activated them one by one and every one got allocated with R30 airtime.. Which makes a grand total of R420 airtime for an actual cost of R13.72!
On each simcard I can buy a 10MB data bundle for R10.00 which leaves R20.00 airtime left, R20 airtime at R2.00/MB equals 10MB... - So a total of 20MB data per simcard * 14 = 280MB for R13.72 which equals R0.049 ~ approx 5c per MB!!
But wait! There's more... MTN still seems to be suffering from an "infinite data" syndrome where if your bundle or airtime runs dry you do not get disconnected.. least ways not immediately anyway and you can normally carry on quite a bit over the edge..
Even if the "endless data bug" gets fixed... the free airtime one is still good..
At the beginning of this week I depleted my 500MB MTN data bundle prematurely..
This was the second month running that this had happened.. so I decided I needed a second MTN simcard for data use.. (seeing as MTN has this annoying policy of only one data bundle every 30 days..)
Anyway so I head off to Pick n' Pay to pick up a new 98c Sim pack.. I bought two of them as my brother had asked me to get him one as well ..
Get home, insert the simcard and dial 141 to activate.. and lo! I get this voice telling me that I've just been credited with R30 free airtime!
Sweet! So I got R30 for 98c .. - in my books that counts as a pretty good bargain..
I thought I might have just been an isolated lucky case, seeing as there was no indication on the starter pack or in the Pick n' Pay that I'd be getting free airtime.. but no, my brothers simcard also got allocated with R30 ..
So as an avid investigator today I decided to get a few more starter packs.. Fourteen more to be precise.. and I activated them one by one and every one got allocated with R30 airtime.. Which makes a grand total of R420 airtime for an actual cost of R13.72!
On each simcard I can buy a 10MB data bundle for R10.00 which leaves R20.00 airtime left, R20 airtime at R2.00/MB equals 10MB... - So a total of 20MB data per simcard * 14 = 280MB for R13.72 which equals R0.049 ~ approx 5c per MB!!
But wait! There's more... MTN still seems to be suffering from an "infinite data" syndrome where if your bundle or airtime runs dry you do not get disconnected.. least ways not immediately anyway and you can normally carry on quite a bit over the edge..
Even if the "endless data bug" gets fixed... the free airtime one is still good..
