MTN changes data usage rules?

[ginggs]

@Jan Vermeulen I hope you still folowing this thread but it looks to me like BS on part of MTN, I tested this today a week or so after my new recuring bundle was loaded at the end of my last billing cycle i had 135.94 remaining, and my monthy alocated bundle of 100MB got loaded

Isn't that what the spokesperson from MTN said?

• MTN uses separate data “wallets”: recurring and ad-hoc.
• Recurring data allocations are credited every month, but data is valid for 60 days.
• If a subscriber doesn’t use their full monthly data allowance the carry-over will be used first in the following month.
• This is similar for bundles that are loaded on an ad-hoc basis: “the bundle that expires first is depleted first”.
• When you mix the two bundles, however, data from the recurring wallet is used first.

 

[isie]

Isn't that what the spokesperson from MTN said?

Article was a littl all over the place

However, Dewberry and others have observed that data now appears to be allocated to a single wallet that expires 60 days from the latest bundle purchase.

From what i understood that means no mater when you loaded the bundle everything gets alocated to a single wallet with the expiry date of the latest bundle added?

 

[LowVoltage]

MTN corrected the issue for about 1 month. All seemed good and no data was being lost on my account at least - everything just got added and deducted in a chronological fashion.

Today I discovered they've changed back to the old method of taking the last-expiring-data first. Annoying.
They probably realised they're making a lot less money and so reverted. We seriously need to get away from this mentality of data "expiring". It's complete BS.