mongwopman
New Member
Hey people,
Firstly sorry if this is in the wrong section, if so please move.
Here is my little tale of "Why I hate all Cellular Operators in South Africa" and by that i mean all (MTN, Vodacom, CellC and Virgin)
I am currently engaged to my fiance who unfortunently resides in the UK. Now one would think that with so many expates living abroad that at least one of the afor mentioned companies would have a special levy for people such as myself who need to maintain contact with loved one's living abroad........well well...NO SUCH THING exists in good old SA. No beacause here we have fat cat companies that leech and mooch every last penny from you....the "honest" client.
I did some research across each network, and the cost of a single sms/text message overseas/abroad is R1.50! yes R1.50 per sms. So a 2 part sms is R3.00...and so forth. Surely this is a blatant ripoff?
I mentioned this to a Vodacom insider and was told that that needs to be directed to their operations manager, and nothing was heard again. This same Vodacom insider told me that "..it probably costs us less than 0.10c to actually send that message" WTF!!!!
I checked this fee across the whole board and not in one single package, pre paid or contract is the price different, R1.50 on everything, and across every network.
Is this fair? Surely something should be done about this! I spend in an excess of R1500.00 per month on my telephone bill, of which maybe R300 is actually calls made. Unfortunently being in a age of information and instant contact one NEEDS to have a cellphone and thus be linked to one of these fat cat companies. Even after 2 years of this, i have never received a curtousy call or anything from my ISP (Vodacom) for this. Surely it doesnt take a a lot to come up with a tariff package that is targeted at people such as myself?
What are others views on this?
Firstly sorry if this is in the wrong section, if so please move.
Here is my little tale of "Why I hate all Cellular Operators in South Africa" and by that i mean all (MTN, Vodacom, CellC and Virgin)
I am currently engaged to my fiance who unfortunently resides in the UK. Now one would think that with so many expates living abroad that at least one of the afor mentioned companies would have a special levy for people such as myself who need to maintain contact with loved one's living abroad........well well...NO SUCH THING exists in good old SA. No beacause here we have fat cat companies that leech and mooch every last penny from you....the "honest" client.
I did some research across each network, and the cost of a single sms/text message overseas/abroad is R1.50! yes R1.50 per sms. So a 2 part sms is R3.00...and so forth. Surely this is a blatant ripoff?
I mentioned this to a Vodacom insider and was told that that needs to be directed to their operations manager, and nothing was heard again. This same Vodacom insider told me that "..it probably costs us less than 0.10c to actually send that message" WTF!!!!
I checked this fee across the whole board and not in one single package, pre paid or contract is the price different, R1.50 on everything, and across every network.
Is this fair? Surely something should be done about this! I spend in an excess of R1500.00 per month on my telephone bill, of which maybe R300 is actually calls made. Unfortunently being in a age of information and instant contact one NEEDS to have a cellphone and thus be linked to one of these fat cat companies. Even after 2 years of this, i have never received a curtousy call or anything from my ISP (Vodacom) for this. Surely it doesnt take a a lot to come up with a tariff package that is targeted at people such as myself?
What are others views on this?
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