MTN plans to extend data bundle expiration life

CPA has more trouble coming

CPA says that any product purchased be it sms data or airtime minutes must have a 12 month validity period.

Which means from the date of purchase you have 12 months to utilize it.

eg. R100 per month top up contract taken on 1st january 2011
will expire on the 1st january 2012.

eg. R100 per month top up - February subscription of R100
will expire on the 1st february 2012.

From the date purchased or allocated = 12 months

MTN - VodaCom and Cell-c will try to fool you with a bone or 2.

This is MTN's way of fooling the masses.

The Corporates are trying to turn the CPA around and i think they might get their way.

This is a joke but it's happening.

Corruption rules.


DXL - Team
 
Has Vodacom taken any initiative over the past few years? The seem to play "let's follow MTN"
 
Sodan said:
+/- half a day.
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its only the regulators who seem not to be aware of this conspiracy,mtn and voda always implement product changes and launch new products coincedentaly simultaneously,
 
ajax said:
Can't believe they've ripped off their customers for so long! Imagine loading a 2nd bundle on the evening of day 60 just to find your data gone the next morning! It is theft. Nothing less.
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Let's get real, though, this can never happen. The data is valid for a minimum of 30 days, up to a maximum of 60.

I'm all for pointing fingers, but let's be sure we have the facts correct when we do. Otherwise WE're the ones that look stupid.
 
I really doubt they'd let data bundles run for a year. All the small bundle users would then buy a 2GB bundle and call it a day.
They make much more cash with people buying the smaller bundles over and over again.
 
Hope that MTN is more successful this time around than they were at sorting out their billing 'problems'. ;)
 
brettwlewis said:
Vodacom, listen up too.

I often run out of prepaid data near the middle of a month, and hold off from buying more until the start of the next month, to avoid forfeiting data in the 2 month cycle. I'd probably burn more data if the 60 day limit wasn't hanging over my head all the time.
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Why you still with Vodacom for data when you can get it for much cheaper somewhere else?
 
SaiyanZ said:
I really doubt they'd let data bundles run for a year. All the small bundle users would then buy a 2GB bundle and call it a day.
They make much more cash with people buying the smaller bundles over and over again.
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I suspect that's why it's called the Consumer Protection Act, rather than the "Allowing Corrupt Businesses to Rape their Customers Act". :grin:
 
brettwlewis said:
Vodacom, listen up too.

I often run out of prepaid data near the middle of a month, and hold off from buying more until the start of the next month, to avoid forfeiting data in the 2 month cycle. I'd probably burn more data if the 60 day limit wasn't hanging over my head all the time.
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Did anybody else notice that Vodacom silently changed the way their bandwidth rolls over...when it was introduced and up until sometime late last year, you used your old bandwidth before beginning to use the new bandwidth, then all of a sudden it changed, so that the old rollover bandwidth only gets used after you've completed your whole months bundle, which means that every second month, you can't have any data rollover... a bunch of sly bastards these Vodacom thieves
 
"MTN plans to let your data live longer"

should read

"MTN reluctantly says they might start giving data customers what they advertised... but not yet."
 
Greggle said:
Its a good move but a bit late for MTN ... I went onto Blackberry for the very reason that I got frustrated at my costs for data and losing it and ditched MTN for Vodacom in the process.
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:wtf: You ditched MTN for Vodacom :erm:
 
IF MTN are going to give data a 60 day life from date of purchase, then the oldest data will always be used first. This is great and if VC follows suite (as they always do - because they are not leaders) then that will solve the 60 day cycle problem we are presently faced with. viz. The newest data is used first before the rollover data. At least that's a is step forward.
Me thinks the CPA is the motivating factor in this decision.
 
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I could never understand why you forfeited any unused data that you have paid for. Isn't it the same when you pay for 50 liters of petrol?

Imagine the petrol station sends pump attendants to your house to suck out any unused petrol out of your car's tank, if you haven't used it within a month.

Doesn't it just sound bizarre? You've paid for something, but then the company steal it back from you? :sick:
 
YES

RoganDawes said:
I suspect that's why it's called the Consumer Protection Act, rather than the "Allowing Corrupt Businesses to Rape their Customers Act". :grin:
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:) YES They don't want things that add value to the consumer.

Thats why we need protection !
 
Basilrsa said:
IF MTN are going to give data a 60 day life from date of purchase, then the oldest data will always be used first. This is great and if VC follows suite (as they always do - because they are not leaders) then that will solve the 60 day cycle problem we are presently faced with. viz. The newest data is used first before the rollover data. At least that's a is step forward.
Me thinks the CPA is the motivating factor in this decision.
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Correct !
 
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