MTN Smartphone Services

i cant believe mtn releases a service that their staff dont even know about. You would think they woulda organised training or something before rolling it out, but no ... their motto must be "let the consumer rather train our staff", saves them money at the end of the day!
 
Mr G said:
i cant believe mtn releases a service that their staff dont even know about. You would think they woulda organised training or something before rolling it out, but no ... their motto must be "let the consumer rather train our staff", saves them money at the end of the day!
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:D ...so true...

Day 3 and still no 75Mb...what's the deal MTN?
 
wow, you guys were on the ball. Knew about it before most of MTN did

Looks like its on MyBB now

Anyway not sure if I get it. Don't the normal 75mb data bundles cost R49 anyway so how is this 75mb fair use going to help

Better to just buy a normal bundle and you can do anything you want with it.

Unless I'm mistaken :)
 
Cool, thanks for the heads-up. Well lets hope MTN provides a good service regarding this (not a good start) and that the other providers start their own flat rate systems too.
 
No guys! this wasn't for you eyes. MTN is just showing Vodacom what to do and at what price to ensure they launch at exactly the same price... wouldn't want to screw up the price fixing, its been working so well for them... duh
 
Vegeta said:
No guys! this wasn't for you eyes. MTN is just showing Vodacom what to do and at what price to ensure they launch at exactly the same price... wouldn't want to screw up the price fixing, its been working so well for them... duh
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South Africa's "Free Market" haha
 
Clever choices for your smartphone
MTN is offering many more Internet services that will ensure you
get the most megabytes for your money. For Nokia lovers, MTN
has a Nokia Smartphone Service. For R49 you can use Nokia
smartphone applications like email, IM and navigation. This
can be used in conjunction with any of the current price-plans
(PayAsYouGo, Contract or TopUp). This service has a fair-use
policy of 75MB per month.
A general MTN Smartphone Service lets you use email, IM
and navigation. The Social Networking Service for R29 with a
fair use of 75MB can be used on applications like Facebook, MXit,
Windows Live, LinkedIn and WhatsApp.
Now you can enjoy all these new MTN Internet services!
Please note these smartphone services have a 30-day expiry
period. Terms and conditions apply.
From the latest Yello Mag!
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Cool. WhatsApp is included.

Can rpm merge the threads?

Question still looming: What happens after 75MB?
 
Mr G said:
Clever choices for your smartphone
MTN is offering many more Internet services that will ensure you
get the most megabytes for your money. For Nokia lovers, MTN
has a Nokia Smartphone Service. For R49 you can use Nokia
smartphone applications like email, IM and navigation. This
can be used in conjunction with any of the current price-plans
(PayAsYouGo, Contract or TopUp). This service has a fair-use
policy of 75MB per month.
A general MTN Smartphone Service lets you use email, IM
and navigation. The Social Networking Service for R29 with a
fair use of 75MB can be used on applications like Facebook, MXit,
Windows Live, LinkedIn and WhatsApp.
Now you can enjoy all these new MTN Internet services!
Please note these smartphone services have a 30-day expiry
period. Terms and conditions apply.

From the latest Yello Mag!
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FUP of 75mb a month that is kinda sad.
 
Wave of ambiguity spreads as more stuff happens.
 
MTN is set to launch new flat-rated smartphone data packages similar to the popular BlackBerry Internet service (BIS) offerings.

Serame Taukobong, MTN South Africa’s chief marketing officer, confirmed today (3 February 2012) that the company is launching Smartphone Services, targeted at entry level smartphone users.

MTN’s smartphone services are aimed at niche smartphone users with planned products like the Nokia Smartphone Pro Service, MTN Smartphone Pro Service and MTN Opera Mini Internet Service.

Pricing is rumoured to be at a similar level or cheaper than current BlackBerry Internet Service prices.

Vodacom is also working on flat-rated smartphone data plans which will further bring competition to smartphone data market and in specific BlackBerry.

“This [flat-rated smartphone data plan] is something we look forward to because it will be very positive for Vodacom customers. Although we’re making good progress, we cannot divulge any specific details at this point in time,” said Vodacom spokesperson Nomsa Thusi.

Flat-rated data packages for platforms like Apple’s iPhone and Android can remove one of BlackBerry’s biggest advantages in the South African smartphone market.

Rui Brites, Product Director for Africa at Research In Motion (RIM), however, feels that the BlackBerry platform offers a superior, highly differentiated user experience.

“RIM’s global BlackBerry Infrastructure remains a core advantage for our business and is an integral part of RIM’s ability to deliver industry leading push services, security, manageability and spectral efficiency for RIM’s customers and partners,” says Brites.

“BlackBerry smartphones are also extremely efficient due to data compression through the BlackBerry Infrastructure, allowing operators to offer the kind of tariff plans that appeal to customers in South Africa.”

Rui added that on average, browsing the web is 2 times more efficient; email is 4 times more efficient; and social messaging is 2 times more efficient on a BlackBerry smartphone than other smartphones.

“This efficiency lowers roaming fees, allows a customer to do more on their data plan and also provides less strain on the carrier networks,” Brites concluded.
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This is from the Businesstech website

SOURCE
 
I also just saw in the USSD menu under data bundles that there is a Duration bundle option, when I pick it I get a error that it is not available yet.

Bundles that expire over a longer period sounds like a nice feature.
 
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