Free e-mail for Vodacom users

Gee how about less new bundled services and investment in improving your coverage and latency on your data services.
 
Nice. There will be more of this in the lead up to MNP.

Mailbox size??
5 meg <----------------------------------------------------> 1 Gig???

I would think that 10 or even 20 megs would be of more value for entry level though.
 
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At last. In the past one had to pay R29 per month for this email service...or was it this one. You get 5MB space here. Did anyone have the R29 per month email service from VC? Know how many diskspace you had?
 
Rather go for a free gmail account and then you're not tied to a particular provider when you want to switch.
 
Second that bwana - only nice thing is consolidating accounts into one portal.
But 5MB - come on Vodacom GMail is offering over 550 times that for free.
 
carudden said:
Second that bwana - only nice thing is consolidating accounts into one portal.
But 5MB - come on Vodacom GMail is offering over 550 times that for free.
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Well you can always auto forward your gmail to any address you like that way you can change ISPs at will and still take advantage of their email facilities.

Gmail also has some pretty good spam filtering in place which means you're not paying r2 per mb to download junk.
 
MTN offered email to subscribers years ago, when mtnice was still around, I even registered the [email protected] on my name, just received MTN related queries and a whole lot of spam, I never used the address for anything else.

Gmail++++++++++++, if you want a gmail invite just pm me, it 2.7Gb (&counting) of mailbox space and it's FREE, Not R29 pm for a crappy email service
 
bwana v.17 said:
Rather go for a free gmail account and then you're not tied to a particular provider when you want to switch.
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Exactly what I was going to say, how does this provide me with anything more than I get already with my gmail account? Can access that from my phone, have a lot more storage space, doesn't seem to be any advantage in this. If the data transfer was free it might be useful otherwise its a waste of time.
 
The cell operators are losing one of the things that always kept ppl with them. The fact that ppl can in the future switch operators and keep their number is now forcing them to find new ways to make sure that ppl want to stay with them.

Tying in a few email addies into ure package ensures that ppl think twice before switching operators.

You: Okay bye bye vodacom. I'm off to MTN.
Vodacom: u sure u want to go?
You: yeah. i'm sure......ure service and prices lately have become kinda ****e.
Vodacom: oh well then. Bye. U do know that we will b cancelling ure email accounts with us?
You:........u ****ers.....u absolute gits.


My little story :)
Vodacom: Cancel the email addy pls.
 
Free email (but you pay for the downloads) :(

This will be great if indeed it was totally free....

If they could make it like Vlive that you don't even pay for the DOWNLOAD or UPLOAD (Sending) I would get one today....

Even 5MB should be fine.... This would be great for personal email... but attachements woulk kill it. If the messages were free, but downloading would cost, I would still go for this...

SPAM will kill this (like my ABSA "free" email)...

Yeah... 2.8GB gmail is great... but that is close to a Telkom CAP :(

Free is only free if access is free (or close to free)...

My 2c
 
armitage said:
The cell operators are losing one of the things that always kept ppl with them. The fact that ppl can in the future switch operators and keep their number is now forcing them to find new ways to make sure that ppl want to stay with them.
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Anything to try an lock in subscribers, hehe

Yes, GMAIL for the win!!!!!
One day Google will rule the world and it will be a happy place :D
 
jasweb said:
This will be great if indeed it was totally free....

If they could make it like Vlive that you don't even pay for the DOWNLOAD or UPLOAD (Sending) I would get one today....
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And risk their Blackberry service (and the fee associated with it)? Not these guys. Free is only 'free' for them when it generates alternative revenue - in this case by charging up to r2 per mb in downloads with the added bonus of potentially tying less savvy users to an email addy.

The article does bring up a qn
Vodacom subscribers can now send free e-mail after the cellphone network operator announced the new product, Vodacom Free E-mail, on Monday.
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Later on the go on to say that you only pay
for the amount of data downloaded via their cellphones or Vodafone Mobile Connect Card to their PCs.
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Are uploads definitely free then?
 
I just check the MTN email service, It;s years since I checked my MTN mailbox. MTN offers free sms notifications when an email arrives in your emailbox. So just say you using gmail and would like to receive sms notifications when an certain email arrives, just create a filter in your gmail account and have a copy sent to your mtn email account. I don't think you should foward all your mail there as you SMS inbox will get to full. Any way I just deleted the info@mtnice/mtnloaded email address so anyone with mtn login details can get the address, MTN DD, I think you should go get since it's for mtn related stuff, although 99% of the mail was spam.
 
hrm.. the sms notification looks good. Does it give snippits of whats in the mail? maybe i can push all my google calender notifications to it and recieve the sms notification :p then again its probably a vanilla 'You've got X new mail msgs' .

Sadly i see the notifications are just once per day :(
 
Hi, unfortunately not, just the senders address and the subject, although it would have been better to get snippets of the message. Space is wasted with "you have received an email in your mtn emailbox" and "<you can now reply to this message>", I mean MTN should think haw can you reply if they don't let you see the message
 
No, from the MTN website, just log in, click "my MTN", the select "communicate", and then email messaging on the left hand side.
 
Configured my e-mail on vodacom4me - it is now [email protected]

But I can't find the spot to setup the aliases.

I want to reserve the aliases I want ASAP!

And I don't intend to hold for more than 13 min to speak to an operator.

PS: I intend using it for forwarding my Gmail to - should be faster to download.
 
kaspaas said:
Configured my e-mail on vodacom4me - it is now [email protected]

But I can't find the spot to setup the aliases.

I want to reserve the aliases I want ASAP!

And I don't intend to hold for more than 13 min to speak to an operator.

PS: I intend using it for forwarding my Gmail to - should be faster to download.
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log into vodacom4me, go to messaging, email, click my email tab, then there should be another tab saying aliases, choose yr alias and away you go.
 
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