Today is number porting day!!

This topic must be THE most posted topic thread at the moment... threads are all over the place
 
I spoke to someone from Virgin Mobile and only 78 people have ported to them so far.

Wonder what the stats are like for the rest?
 
I am porting from Vodacom to MTN, filled in all the forms and all that. Will have to wait till next week for it to kick in.
 
And I want to port from MTN to Vodacom
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Reasons for me going to MTN are:

a) The whole data bundle story which Vodacom can't get right. [can buy them "on-the-fly" and it's not calendar month restricted on MTN].
b) 15 Peak Minutes + 85 Off Peak Minutes [MTN] versus 120 Off Peak Minutes [Voda] on the equivalent contracts.
c) The Nokia E70 which the few Vodashops i asked at had no clue about, they kept trying to sell me the N70 instead.
d) Vodacom was unable to port my prepaid number onto a contract 2 years ago, thus i signed a voice contract with a new number which i only ended up using for data ..any attempts to migrate to different contracts [i.e. pure data] after i realised my usage was futile, Vodacom couldn't do it.


I'm sure MTN got their own set of issues, just like changing banks, probably just changing one evil for another.
 
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diabolus said:
Reasons for me going to MTN are:

a) The whole data bundle story which Vodacom can't get right. [can buy them "on-the-fly" and it's not calendar month restricted on MTN].
b) 15 Peak Minutes + 85 Off Peak Minutes [MTN] versus 120 Off Peak Minutes [Voda] on the equivalent contracts.
c) The Nokia E70 which the few Vodashops i asked at had no clue about, they kept trying to sell me the N70 instead.
d) Vodacom was unable to port my prepaid number onto a contract 2 years ago, thus i signed a voice contract with a new number which i only ended up using for data ..any attempts to migrate to different contracts [i.e. pure data] after i realised my usage was futile, Vodacom couldn't do it.


I'm sure MTN got their own set of issues, just like changing banks, probably just changing one evil for another.
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how do you go about changing service providers?
 
What I really what to know about number portability is how to best cut my cell phone charges which are in the region of R350-R600 pm on contract. We really need a site that addresses this, perhaps with some comparative calculator?
 
how do you go about changing service providers?
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I walked into my nearest MTN shop, they printed out some forms which i filled in. I required my vodacom sim as proof , there's a number on it which they also take down, then you sign a bunch of times and now i wait for them to turn off my current sim and activate a new sim with the number....
 
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