Pre Paid Data Bundles [PPDBs]

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brad said:
Marco,

Not sure if this may help while you wait for PPDB's. You can sign up for a 4U Zero "Contract" which is a 24 month "Contract with 0 monthly cost associated and no bundled airtime or data or anything fancy (no phone either). You can then choose what size data bundle you want to "Bolt on" to the package and if you exhaust that bundle for any particular month, you can buy an ad-hoc bundle to last you the rest of the month. I cannot recall the intricacies of carrying over unused data from one month to the next. To the best of my knowledge, you can do the same thing with any other contract if you intend moving an existing voice contract from MTN - V3g should be able to confirm this.

Hope this info is still correct at time of going to press! ;)
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Yes, except for the carry over bit. Bundles only last for 30 days.
 
brad said:
Marco,

Not sure if this may help while you wait for PPDB's. You can sign up for a 4U Zero "Contract" which is a 24 month "Contract with 0 monthly cost associated and no bundled airtime or data or anything fancy (no phone either). You can then choose what size data bundle you want to "Bolt on" to the package and if you exhaust that bundle for any particular month, you can buy an ad-hoc bundle to last you the rest of the month. I cannot recall the intricacies of carrying over unused data from one month to the next. To the best of my knowledge, you can do the same thing with any other contract if you intend moving an existing voice contract from MTN - V3g should be able to confirm this.

Hope this info is still correct at time of going to press! ;)
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My father started using the 4U contract in November and received a big surprize on his first invoice/statement, they gave hime a R21 credit for being on 4U contract per month. This makes the databundles R21 per month cheaper - so on 3G/GPRS bundles you pay only R67 for 75MB or R378 for 1G.

Regards

FireTelkom
 
FireTelkom said:
My father started using the 4U contract in November and received a big surprize on his first invoice/statement, they gave hime a R21 credit for being on 4U contract per month. This makes the databundles R21 per month cheaper - so on 3G/GPRS bundles you pay only R67 for 75MB or R378 for 1G.
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The R21 credit is once off.
 
Prometheus said:
Any idea yet if ppdbs - or any other bundles for that matter - will have a carry over?
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My understanding is they won't.

The whole idea is that they must work the same way as contracts, but obviously pre-paid.

(Before everyone start digging up old posts :rolleyes: , it's a completely new system, not similar at all to the original system (we never got) ! )
 
contract

Some people cannot get contracts. My business went under.
 
Some people also can not get debit cards as a result of high charges and no competition in the banking sector. :mad:
 
The banks want a fixed income before they give a debit card or even a current account. All the result of absolutely no competition allowing them to screw the public and force them to use more expensive options because they know the population is generally unemployed. Meanwhile US banks are falling over themselves to get people to use their debit cards.
 
I was under the impression that the reason the banks required clients to have a fixed income was to block people from bringing money which had been derived from illegal activities into the sytem.
 
sky.akash said:
I was under the impression that the reason the banks required clients to have a fixed income was to block people from bringing money which had been derived from illegal activities into the sytem.
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Smokescreen!!! If this was true they would require a fixed income for a bank account. All that the law requires is an id document and proof of residence. With the high charges they basically don't have to compete. This creates an environment where they agree to rip people off simply because they don't work which is the majority of the population. They only offer you a current account if they know they can suck even more out of you.

Anyway, my savings account can't hold large amounts of money so when my deposit at FNB expires in about a month's time they would have no choice but to turn me down as a customer or open a current account for me.
 
Hi.Guys - and hi to V3G,
i have been out of the country for 2 months...
trying to catch up:

1: from what i can see, there are still no PPDBs - is this true? i assume it is, so next question is:

2: when do they come? has any definite date been given?

3: whats new on the Vodacom side? any new developments besides MNP? any new developments on any of the networks?
 
Welcome back!!;)

I dont think there will be any ppdbs any time soon, maybe in another life. Virgin is still the cheapest network (No bundles subcribtion)
 
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