MTN cuts off Cell C number range

Bern said:
I still don't understand the legality of that decision:confused: I don't feel bad for TopTV, they don't deserve it after the way they handled the whole situation, but the precedent is what bugs me - political meddling with irrational personal feelings winning over proper investigation and rational decision making.
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You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
 
Here's why this $h!t keeps happening:

Vodacom is kak I'm porting ---------> MTN
MTN is kak I'm porting ---------> Vodacom

you have this loop going on
MTN <-------> Vodacom

Which won't end until a lot of people move to the smaller operators
 
Apolix said:
Were these 084-19* numbers being charged at the same rate? I don't recall them being premium rated or anything.
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For MTN customers they are charged at the same rate as another Cell C number.
 
Niren_M said:
How is the service, data speeds and coverage on Cell C / RBM?
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Their call centre service is as craptastic as all the others, but after I went to the shop and made the assistant call tech support they eventually sorted out my connection settings (why can't they just set everything up before they give you the phone?!!!). After that I have never needed them. The interwebs knows a lot more about my phone than they ever will.

Coverage is good. Where you don't get CellC coverage, they roam and data speeds usually drop to Edge. Otherwise very good. Remember that they were the first to give us HSDPA.

Billing is all electronic, so no big envelopes full of paper stuffing up your post box.
 
What exactly is on these vas numbers? Will it stop those cell c people calling to offer new contacts?
 
Hummercellc said:
Why does Cell C not block all MTN VAS Services until such time as MTN respond?
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Because if their customers want to call those numbers, they should be able to.

Also, each call generates revenue, so why would Cell C want to cut off some numbers?
 
Mouse said:
Here's why this $h!t keeps happening:

Vodacom is kak I'm porting ---------> MTN
MTN is kak I'm porting ---------> Vodacom

you have this loop going on
MTN <-------> Vodacom

Which won't end until a lot of people move to the smaller operators
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Actually, I am porting to Virgin Mobile. Yeah - I know everyone complains about them, but before my 2 year contract with MTN I was with them for 2 years, and I never had a problem. I have been with all the SP's except CellC over the years and VM was by far the best.

Also, 60c/MB OOB !
 
roguemat said:
Actually, I am porting to Virgin Mobile. Yeah - I know everyone complains about them, but before my 2 year contract with MTN I was with them for 2 years, and I never had a problem. I have been with all the SP's except CellC over the years and VM was by far the best.

Also, 60c/MB OOB !
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I was with them for years as a student, 50c/MB was the cheapest way for me to get on the Internet. I ended up switching to MTN because Virgin Mobile/Cell C reception at the time was terrible, then I tried to switch to either Virgin Mobile or Cell C a year ago, but neither could get me the phone I wanted, so I was forced to go with Vodacum.

If they sort out their range of new phones, Virgin and Cell C will attract a lot more business
 
Mouse said:
I was with them for years as a student, 50c/MB was the cheapest way for me to get on the Internet. I ended up switching to MTN because Virgin Mobile/Cell C reception at the time was terrible, then I tried to switch to either Virgin Mobile or Cell C a year ago, but neither could get me the phone I wanted, so I was forced to go with Vodacum.

If they sort out their range of new phones, Virgin and Cell C will attract a lot more business
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I switched to MTN because they were the only ones that had the phone I wanted.
Ironically in my house I get no MTN signal, but Virgin, Cell C, and 8ta are full.
Virgins phone range is terrible - but it's okay because I have nice phones, and am going to prepaid.
 
Well from now on when I am asked which network is best I will say:"Anyone, just not MTN as they don't allow you to call any telephone number of your liking"
 
Niren_M said:
Is MTN that bad? I was thinking of porting from Vodacom to MTN, since Vodacom's upgrade deal on their Talk packages are so absurd.
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That will be the worst mistake. Their billling is a total mess. You never know what you're invoice for, just a date and an amount. No idea what it's for. Been with them since cellphones came here, but had enough. Moved to pre-paid and will soon port to Vodascum. At least their billing work and their rates are lower esp on 135 TopUp.
 
I have been getting this " The number you have called is not available on the MTN network" for the last year or so on certain number(mtn and vodacom) its not permanent though.

I have even tested to make sure my cell and the cell I'm calling has decent signal at these times, have even tested it with the 2 phones right next to each other with full signal and still get this message at times.

add this to the fact that their customer service is ****, there billing system is **** and there new product packages or terrible and very misleading.

As soon as my contract expires with them I will cancel and never look back, and will advise anyone who asks to stay as far away from them as possible.
 
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LPCPT said:
That will be the worst mistake. Their billling is a total mess. You never know what you're invoice for, just a date and an amount. No idea what it's for. Been with them since cellphones came here, but had enough. Moved to pre-paid and will soon port to Vodascum. At least their billing work and their rates are lower esp on 135 TopUp.
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I had 5 contracts with MTN and moved the lot to Vodacom and Cell C about 3 years ago. What bliss to get honest billing from both companies. I discovered that MTN were updating data usage about 3 days in arrear and at the end of the month expire your remaining data. In the following month they then charge you for the last 3 days of of the previous month at out of contract rates!!! When I consider the vast amount this abuse cost me and a number of friends this is probably netting them hundreds of millions in ill gotten gains and they have no interest in correcting the situation. Porting to MTN is extreme madness!!
 
TidalWave said:
I had 5 contracts with MTN and moved the lot to Vodacom and Cell C about 3 years ago. What bliss to get honest billing from both companies. I discovered that MTN were updating data usage about 3 days in arrear and at the end of the month expire your remaining data. In the following month they then charge you for the last 3 days of of the previous month at out of contract rates!!! When I consider the vast amount this abuse cost me and a number of friends this is probably netting them hundreds of millions in ill gotten gains and they have no interest in correcting the situation. Porting to MTN is extreme madness!!
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I was thinking about the uncapped option they do, but will steer clear if this is the case!!!
 
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