{"id":8932,"date":"2009-07-24T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-24T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T11:08:00","slug":"vodacom-double-data-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/8932-vodacom-double-data-warning.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom \u2018double data\u2019 warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/forumdisplay.php?f=103\">Vodacom<\/a> subscribers received a surprise this morning when they checked their data bundle sizes and found that it was double the normal allowance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I noticed this morning when I logged on to vodacom4me to check the status of my data bundle that the total bundle has doubled in size. It used to be 2 GB and earlier this year Vodacom increased it to 2.2 gig. This morning it showed 4.4 gig total bundle,&rdquo; said one subscriber.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&#8217;ve got an iPhone contract which comes with 250mb data a month. The past month with the promotion I&#8217;ve been getting 275mb. This morning, I got another 275mb all of a sudden.&nbsp; There has been no increase in the cost of the bundles as it is still in contract,&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=183751\">said another user<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation started that Vodacom may have launched a promotion which coincided with the SEACOM launch, but the explanation is less encouraging.&nbsp; The double data bundle allowance seemed to have been caused by a Vodacom billing system glitch.&nbsp; The company explained that their billing system is correct, but that it reflected incorrectly when users check their data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom subscribers were warned not to exceed their standard data allowance:&nbsp; &ldquo;Clients who exceed their balance will be billed according to their actual usage, not the incorrectly reported balance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=183811\"><strong>Vodacom data bundle<\/strong><\/a> discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Vodacom subscribers have noticed an increase in their data bundle sizes, but the company warned that it is only a system glitch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}