Vodacom discontinuing uncapped, replacing it with large-cap services

“The vast majority of customers that are subscribed to these uncapped products won’t reach the hard lock thresholds — for example 600GB on the 10Mbps tariff
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Jannie used this argument during the days of the OOB shark. If that's so then why place caps at all. Let people use as they wish and the ones who don't use a lot will make up for the leeches as the non leeches are in the majority anyway. Vodacom are lying about this as they were doing with OOB.
 
Pitbull said:
Oof...



Years ago working at MTN, they also did away with legacy packages. However, the original contract said it will continue to run as a month to month contract until terminated. People who stayed on those packages like the R9 a month package, just refused to upgrade or cancel. NOTHING MTN could do about it but honor the contracts. I suspect Vodacom is going to have the same issue here. Just refuse to upgrade or cancel, let it run month to month past the 24 months.

@Jan Maybe something you can have investigated?
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Yea no that working tells you Vodacom already have it in the contract somewhere (likely learned from MTN's mistake) and clients will have the two options mentioned.

Glad I went for the 500+500 lte blackfriday thing instead of the "10meg uncapped" they kept trying to get me to buy instead.
 
AstroTurf said:
Yea no that working tells you Vodacom already have it in the contract somewhere (likely learned from MTN's mistake) and clients will have the two options mentioned.

Glad I went for the 500+500 lte blackfriday thing instead of the "10meg uncapped" they kept trying to get me to buy instead.
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Could be, worth a look I guess.

MTN was pissed, I remeber that very well :D
 
“The vast majority of customers that are subscribed to these uncapped products won’t reach the hard lock thresholds — for example 600GB on the 10Mbps tariff
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Guess they reckon, if folks gonna vote ANC again and again, they way too dumb to figure this out.


 
Charlesjjm said:
This does not make any sense:

“The vast majority of customers that are subscribed to these uncapped products won’t reach the hard lock thresholds — for example 600GB on the 10Mbps tariff — so they will continue to enjoy an uninterrupted experience.”

Vodacom explained that it decided to transform its uncapped services into large-cap products to tackle increased network congestion caused by Eskom power cuts."

So firstly, the big users are in the minority. Let's say they all reach their cap on the 20th of the month and are then hard locked. How does this solve network congestion between the 1st and 19th of the month?
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It will stop the few who hammer the service in peak. they idea is to spread the load or at least ask everyone to try.
 
GhostSixFour said:
I wonder how many other companies are gonna blame BS like this on loadshedding.



It's like a get out of jail free card for most big corporates.

Sorry, we have to charge you for parking in our parking lot, it's due to loadshedding.
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I have a friend in an area where battery theft happens, and have the providers done things to stop it. Crazy stuff. And everything from 1m of concrete on top of the batteries to up the tower which needed a crane to install and the batteries were still stolen.

But seems Vodacom tower to be the most resilient. During peak times, during load shedding, the Vodacom is overloaded in the area as it is all that really works. If Telkom/MTN are up, then Vodacom is usable.
This is just one suburb/area. It will be very area dependant.
 
W@P said:
I cannot believe that these mobile operators can get away from changing contracts to suit them. Bewaar jou fokken siel as jy hulle kontrak breek maar hulle mag dit doen. Fok weet.
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It's why its called a con-tract. You signed it with that unfair terms included.

That said, its just a policy, its not law. Just something you agree to do, not comply to do. All contracts happen with YOUR consent. You can withdraw consent to any contract at any time, regardless what's stated in it. An agreement where only one party can change terms is by default unlawful.

I break them all the time, it means nothing to the informed. Adsl and mobile contracts in the past. And SA hosting that seems to think if you buy 12 months hosting upfront, you now somehow tied into a contract untill you cancel within a certain timeframe. I wipe my ass with silly contracts.

And if you can't go around a debit order, setup a cheap bank account just for that. Its cheap and easy these days. Transfer your debit order funds to that.
 
WalkWithMe said:
Huh? They offering to cancel the contract without any consequences.


The few abusers is what screwed everyone here
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Most of these abusers probably live in gauteng where fibre is available so why abuse crappy mobile internet
 
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