MTN Black Friday Discussions

Received 2 calls over the last week advising that the month-to-month 50gb data sim is being discontinued and trying to sell me a data contract. Told them to take a hike. It is November's BF deal so had the sim for less than 3 months.
 
sammi01 said:
Received 2 calls over the last week advising that the month-to-month 50gb data sim is being discontinued and trying to sell me a data contract. Told them to take a hike. It is November's BF deal so had the sim for less than 3 months.
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How much is the 50gb per month deal?
 
A silly question. Mtn itemized billing. How do you request that besides the mtn app that crashes when you request it.

Whats the alternative?
 
W@P said:
Absolute BS that they are allowed to do this.
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Can you blame them though? The amount of generator fuel spend and infrastructure repair costs from theft must be eye watering because of all this loadshedding.

This is just the start. The other networks will now follow along with the food chain etc.

Buckle up.
 
FlashSA said:
Can you blame them though? The amount of generator fuel spend and infrastructure repair costs from theft must be eye watering because of all this loadshedding.

This is just the start. The other networks will now follow along with the food chain etc.

Buckle up.
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I'm not sure it is all down to doomsday scenarios. Maybe it is just the annual, inflation linked increase?
 
Speedster said:
I'm not sure it is all down to doomsday scenarios. Maybe it is just the annual, inflation linked increase?
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Article I read quoted MTN as saying it is largely due to loadshedding related expenses/risks.
 
FlashSA said:
Article I read quoted MTN as saying it is largely due to loadshedding related expenses/risks.
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Although there might very well be extra costs due to loadshedding, I think businesses are using it as an easy out. They increase prices yearly and have done so since cellphones became a thing. Inflation is real.
 
airborne said:
Increasing from what to what?
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All of this has compelled MTN to review its contract pricing. In some instances, the actual subscription fee increase may be higher than the average of 5.1%, with a maximum of 7.4%. Voice call rates per minute will increase on average by 4.0%.

We will implement the price increase from 1 April 2023.
 
azbob said:
All of this has compelled MTN to review its contract pricing. In some instances, the actual subscription fee increase may be higher than the average of 5.1%, with a maximum of 7.4%. Voice call rates per minute will increase on average by 4.0%.

We will implement the price increase from 1 April 2023.
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My R499 contract had gone to R524 and adding another 5% it would be at R550 now.
I went through that renewal debacle so I’m now on R349 pm but it would seem I’ll miss this increase cycle maybe because it’s just been renewed.
 
FlashSA said:
Can you blame them though? The amount of generator fuel spend and infrastructure repair costs from theft must be eye watering because of all this loadshedding.

This is just the start. The other networks will now follow along with the food chain etc.

Buckle up.
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We stay in an area where 2 minutes before load shedding the signal goes off, to a point where I can’t even use my allocation of data, but I must pay more, for less of a service?
I bought a Telkom sim as a test, during load shedding while MTN is non existent I can stream YouTube videos on Telkom???
 
There is no MTN signal during load shedding (have to use Vodacom) so I don't know what generator/back up for load shedding BS MTN is making up to hike up prices for non existent service
 
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