Telkom mobile data roaming question

crudler

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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?
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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