MTN changing their contracts!

KrazyKid said:
There is also the comfort that if any other services are used; Video Calls, SMS after free allocation, Premium Rate SMS, content, etc; they are deducted from your airtime balance.
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Uli said:
They are deducted over and above your allocated airtime... and not deducted from your given airtime.
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Uli, you seem to be confusing a matter which is actually rather simple.... with an Anytime200 package you get R200 value to use for free every month. So if you send an sms it deducts 75c from your R200, make a call and it deducts it from the R200, surf the net and the data cost is deducted from your R200, etc etc...

On top of this you get 25 free sms, so your first 25 sms in a month do not reduce your R200. Unused value rolls over for five months.

After you have used your R200 value you then start paying for calls, sms, data etc etc
 
Uli said:
Make sure that you are on the topup package and not the normal one.
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nope, its the MyChoiceTopup, as per the account. Last month when the airtime was finished, no more calls/sms'es.
Do the packages get changed/migrated automatically from old to new?
We've had some strange stuff going on.
One 350Mb package even 'converted' to a Procall220 without request or auth.
Which is weird, wtf would anyone select a voice package on a data modem :confused:
 
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MTN can go get stuffed. 12 year client here, and I am going elsewhere.
These contracts are bull..it!
Firstly, they can stick their free SMS's up their ass. I don't need them, don't want them, and am not paying a higher monthly charge to get them.
Secondly, on my previous Procall 120, average calls were R1.65 per minute, except for to other networks (R2.35)
A lot of my calls were to Telkom lines (R0.90 off peak!) and now all calls are going to cost me R1.95 or even more when out of my free minutes?
I don't care how you work out per second vs per 30 secs etc etc...it is still a ripoff, and has been carefully worked out by MTN to be in their favour.

Blah blah...free R's on a Anytime package. So what? I can use those for data?
Try asking them what they are charging you per meg then. They try and tell you you have to take an extra bundle for data, but WTF would i do that if i can use my free R's for data? Ooohhh!...because unless i take an extra bundle I get charged double per meg.
Hmm.
So at the end of the day the whole thing is just bull and designed to charge you more per minute. I would prefer my cheaper call rates off peak and to telkom.
MTN can take their ripoff packages and get stuffed. Don't think any of these changes were designed to be better for us. They are not stupid.

Hmm...so where to go now?

G26
 
All I am saying is that the prepaid Call Per Second Peak is probably a must better choice:

Call Rates Peak Standard Off-Peak
MTN to MTN R 2.39 R 1.99 R 1.59
MTN to Telkom R 2.39 R 1.99 R 1.59
MTN to Other R 2.39 R 1.99 R 1.59


Prepaid Peak : 07:00 to 16:59:59 (Mondays to Fridays)
Standard Time : 17:00 to 19:59:59 (Mondays to Fridays)
Off peak : 20:00 to 06:59:59 (Mondays to Fridays) , weekends (Friday 20:00 to Monday morning 06:59:59) and public holidays.
 
Lancelot..no-one holds a Glock to my head..that's my job. ;)
"they do allow you to stay on your existing package".....
Yeah..which is what I am doing right now. But it bugs me that they get my money every month now without a contract...I just keep paying them and don't even get a new phone.
I'll probably buy a phone outright and go month to month on another network.
MTN has pissed me off. I look at the package they are trying to sell me (Anytime500) and think that I would use less calls than that, and use the rest for data (which i am using more and more) but then they want to charge me out of bundle rates (R2 per meg) and if i want cheaper data, I have to take a bundle and get it down to R1/meg, but pay another R80 per month?
WTF? Why can't I get data at the bundle rate and have it come off my free R500? Or include some damn data in the package instead of SMS's you pratts!
So then I pay R580, plus I have to pay for CLI and Itemised billing (the "special deal" on the Omnia) and then pay for insurance, and after all that I am on R700 per month. And getting similar to what i was getting for around R500 total.
And they say it is a good deal?
Hmph.
The only thing you score on is SMS (if you are a kiddie who uses that all day) and peak calls to other networks. But if you do a lot of off peak or calls to telkom numbers, you pay through the nose.
If they think everyone is stupid enough not to see this, then they had better check again. Call per second vs per 30 secs....not bad. But when you do the math...you are still losing out.

They are just in it for the increase in charges, and I bet Vodacom follows soon.

G26
 
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I'm moving from Vodacom weekender to MTN and the Anytime200 suits me just fine. I will be much better off. I currently have 496 free off peak minutes on the Weekender contract, never mind all the ones that have falen away, yet I pay for smses! And no I am not a kiddie but send client reminders, contact details etc via sms!

By the way itemised billing, insurance and CLI are optional with MTN direct. If the 500 is too much for you, considering you now have 120 minutes only, why not go 350 or even 200 with a data bundle?
 
For me the Anytime350 makes more sense than the comparable 120 contracts from Vodacom
 
Because the Phone pay-ins on the 350 and lower contracts are rediculous (think R3000 and up for a decent phone)
So if I am not getting a decent phone out of it, why even renew my contract?
Even on the lower packages which cost similar to the old procall 120, the call rates are so far higher that it just doesn't make sense. Pay less for the monthly, and much more for the calls.
Not logical either way.

G26
 
MTN genius hard at work in this advert

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Look at the E71 advert
 
maxxis said:
MTN genius hard at work in this advert

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Look at the E71 advert
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Could be an error or it could be that the phone is subsidised on the Anytime350. Look at the Omnia, it has a similar special offer. Why would you get it on the Anytime350 for R459 when you can get it on the Anytime500 for R500. It's obviously cheaper on certain packages.

They also offer an option to pay in so you will probably find that for the E71 on the Anytime200 you would have to pay in a few grand or pay the same as you would on the Anytime350 on special.
 
Am I missing something or I you being charged R9x24 for the E71 (R359/pm) on the AnyTime350?

EDIT: http://www.uploading.com/files/535KZV1S/MTN_Anytime_Usage.xls.html

That's a link to some numbers I ran against my usage behaviour for the AnyTime350. I then decided on an HTC Touch Diamond. Pay-in R2,400. Which was much less than advertised for a Talk120/100s/120s etc contract from Vodacom. Or from MTN you can choose R99pm over the life of your contract if you do not want to pay the R2,400. I haven't worked out the finance cost. But looking at it, it seems fairly good.
 
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Can anyone maybe tell me, say I take the mtn off-peak package, the R100 one, cause I mostly phone off-peak. Then I get the inclusive R100 and the few free sms's. But can we add a sms bundle to this new packages, and can that be deducted from the inclusive airtime, or will it be added to the R100? Currently I'm on MyCall100, but I pay R29/month. Then I added a 100 sms bundle(R35), and 10meg bundle(R10),(just for occasional operamini browsing). So the contract totals at R74, but all in all with few calls I pay R90.
 
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jacqvt said:
That's sad, then the new contracts wont benefit me at all. Thanks
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it won't I agree cause peak and off peak is charged at the same rate!


MTN Anytime! SAME rate all the time off peak and peak and to all networks. 1 Flat rate for all and per second from the very first second! :)
 
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