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| Thread ID: 90516 | 2008-06-05 19:10:00 | Sim Cards only $2.00 in South Africa ! | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 675951 | 2008-06-06 02:30:00 | Hang on Cicero, they don't work! I tried one, and the phone does not ring - in or out. No wonder they are cheap - the lazy sods haven't even got a single cell tower here. Thanks for that ,flight cancelled. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 675952 | 2008-06-06 04:18:00 | But you get around $15 credit by the time you've filled in their survey. ;) The SIM card is a one off cost, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. :p Don't new prepay connections automaticlly put you on the Super Prepay plan, where you have to top it up every few months. I had heard that the old 12 month prepay plan (motor mouth I think it was called) has now been phased out for new connections? You don't have to pay anything to connect to telecoms mobile prepay system, as they don't currently use sim cards, although when they do, I can't see them not charging for them, as they will be wanting to get new customers. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 675953 | 2008-06-06 04:37:00 | You can change to motormouth but this is not made very clear. Also, once you change, this does not occur until you fork out another $20.00 Got caught out on that one. They are all robbers:horrified |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 675954 | 2008-06-06 07:45:00 | You can change to motormouth but this is not made very clear. Also, once you change, this does not occur until you fork out another $20.00 Got caught out on that one. They are all robbers:horrified This page says you can't switch to 'Classic prepay' anymore (which supposdly includes motormouth) www.vodafone.co.nz Does that mean that if you get a new VF prepay phone, you have to now top up every 60 days? No wonder they get 60% of the NZ mobile revenue, when they only have 52-4% of the NZ market. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 675955 | 2008-06-06 08:28:00 | This page says you can't switch to 'Classic prepay' anymore (which supposdly includes motormouth) www.vodafone.co.nz Does that mean that if you get a new VF prepay phone, you have to now top up every 60 days? No wonder they get 60% of the NZ mobile revenue, when they only have 52-4% of the NZ market. Pretty sure it's been changed to 12 months now (as of a few weeks ago). |
jermsie (6820) | ||
| 675956 | 2008-06-06 09:36:00 | But you get around $15 credit by the time you've filled in their survey. ;) The SIM card is a one off cost, so I wouldn't worry too much about it. :p Yes you are right, they are $35.00 in NZ, but $15 of that is for air time if you can bother to fill in the internet survey. But I do worry about it, as it is another example of us being ripped off ! by Telecom and Vodaphone ! AND ITS ABOUT TIME THE GOVT DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT ! Especially if they are only $5.00 in Aussie. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 675957 | 2008-06-06 09:48:00 | Pretty sure it's been changed to 12 months now (as of a few weeks ago). Something tells me that is not the only thing that is going to change with Vodafone NZ pricing plans in the next month or so. |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 675958 | 2008-06-06 11:38:00 | Yes you are right, they are $35.00 in NZ, but $15 of that is for air time if you can bother to fill in the internet survey. But I do worry about it, as it is another example of us being ripped off ! by Telecom and Vodaphone ! AND ITS ABOUT TIME THE GOVT DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT ! Especially if they are only $5.00 in Aussie. Well they are only going up in price, because I believe they used to be $30 a few years ago, but I don't know how much credit you got back then. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
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