Use bundled bytes within 30 days.

[wallace]

Hi,

I saw the following on Vodacom's site :"Use bundled bytes within 30 days. Unused data will be forfeited." (http://www.vodacom.co.za/packages/data_tariff_reduction.jsp)

Does this mean that adhoc-bundles are valid from 30 days of purchase? Eg. Buy it on the 15th of March 2007 and use by the 15th of April 2007?

 

[ic]

A good question.

 

[vodacom3g]

Hi,

I saw the following on Vodacom's site :"Use bundled bytes within 30 days. Unused data will be forfeited." (http://www.vodacom.co.za/packages/data_tariff_reduction.jsp)

Does this mean that adhoc-bundles are valid from 30 days of purchase? Eg. Buy it on the 15th of March 2007 and use by the 15th of April 2007?

That was always my understanding.

 

[Liposuck2004]

meee thinks not, i understood that it ran on a 1st -1st bill cycle......but who am i?

 

[internaut]

It is confusing, I must add. Can someone verify this by bolting on a bundle and check to see whether it carries over into next month. Fellow forumites will appreciate it. Seriously though, the "terms and condition" needs to be enhanced.

 

[internaut]

Actually, now that I've milled over that particular clause again, it makes sense.
Bundled data is the included data plus the bolt on data. Or maybe that is what they meant but still need to clarify it. Could turn out to be an interesting tussle in court.

 

[caspa]

Surley it runs for 30 days from the date it is loaded. There is noway a bundle loaded on the 28th of the month will be lost a few days later

 

[vodacom3g]

I've asked for clarity.

 

[ic]

My interpretation is that:

1. a Bolt-On contract data bundle is active month2month until one cancels the Bolt-On contract data bundle; and
2. an Ad-Hoc contract data bundle automatically deactivates at the end of the month in which it was added|active. So if one adds an Ad-Hoc data bundle one day before the end of a calendar month, then it automatically deactivates one day later.

This is obviously not the same as the bundled data being valid for 30 days, which can partially span over 2 months.

I suspect there is an error on Vodacom's website with the 30 days validity of bundled contract data bytes, it would be nice if Vodacom had changed Ad-Hoc data bundles to last for 30 days from activation, but I doubt this is the case - yet.

 

[caspa]

damn...i was just about to load a ad-hoc.....will wait to see what V3G's response is.

 

[internaut]

Bump!

 

[ic]

v3g probably won't be able to answer this before Monday - he's on the move until then, but trying to keep in touch with the forum as much as possible.

 

[internaut]

K, for a moment I thought the product people at VC were confused as well.

 

[wallace]

?

 

[vodacom3g]

Bundle expires on month-end, i.e. it's not 30 days.

I'll get more detailed info as to why.

 

[Gunny]

AFAIK ad-hoc bundles expire at the end of the billing period I use to use them when i run out of my contracted 1 gig bundle and when the contract bundle starts I lose the data left on the ad-hoc bundle.