Telkom mobile data roaming question

[crudler]

Hi,

I am investigating porting to telkom mobile. One question I have is about how their roaming works (local roaming, not international)

Voice roaming is not a problem as I understand
data roaming depends on whether or not you have All Network data, or plain telkom data.
The deal I am looking at has 500mb of all network data included, so that covers that, but my question is about bundles.

it seems you can buy a bundle of telkom only, or all net data (with the latter being the more expensive).
is it possible to buy both, and only use my All Net data only when I am roaming, but my telkom data when I am not?

 

[The_MAC]

If you roam, you use the All Network Bundle, if you on TM you use TM only Bundle, unless you run out of the TM only Bundle

I have monitored my usage and thats how it gets deducted on my bundles

 

[crudler]

Thats great actually.
How have you found the telkom network. Am I looking for trouble porting from vodacom?
In theory it should be as good or better because I would either be on telkom, or roaming on vodacom (or mtn etc etc)
But in practice....... it's still flipping telkom

 

[RichardG]

If you port your number over you won't be receiving any international sms at all. Keep that in mind. Example if you want to subscribe to a service and they send you an SMS from an international prefix you won't be receiving the sms.

 

[crudler]

serious! thats so strange, can you get telkom to reenable this? or is it just a thing with telkom, no internation sms's ever
Thanks for the heads up