I just realized that last month with every 10,000 service fee I bought I also got 4,000/= airtime so its actually WORSE than mentioned below!!
That means last month I got 234,000/= airtime at 360/= per minute is 650 minutes per month as opposed to now at 645 minutes per month!!
So I pay MTN 10,000/= more per month NOW and get 5 minutes less per month than I was getting last month!!
Every time I look at the deal, my pain and anger grows!
Kiggs
On May 12, 2004, at 4:36 PM, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
Its 4pm and I just spent 15 minutes arguing with the MTN rep at Garden city about how they had just screwed me on the new tarriffs.
Here is the story.
I buy 100,000/= airtime about every two weeks at the same shop (MTN Garden City)
So this afternoon I go in there and buy the airtime and load it on (before today I had not been affected by this yellow-go as I had been operating on airtime I bought before the change).
So I hand over 100,000/= to MTN and load it, FIRST THING I NOTICE, There is NO extra airtime (I used to get 15,000/= free). So I ask the guy what happened? He says there is no extra these days, you have to change to Yello-go. So I ask how do I do that. he says I have to pay an extra 20,000/= per month and get lower rates.
In my stupid haste, I hand over the money thinking I am going to save, and load the yello-go then I think and ask for a paper to work out my savings. The other rep, a girl tries to convince me that my savings are huge because I will be calling at 310/= per min as opposed to 390/= per min.
I tell her that she is wrong because I have to compare what I was paying LAST month to what I am paying NOW (which is 310/= as opposed to 360/= per minute)
This is the calculation
LAST MONTH
100,000/= got you 115,000/= of Airtime. If you divide airtime by 360/= per minute you get approx 319 mins (assuming all calls are MTN to MTN)
Plus add the 10,000 service fee I used to pay
So I would have spent 110,000/= and gotten 319 minutes
THIS MONTH
100,000/= gets you 100,000/= of Airtime. If you divide airtime by 310/= per minute you get approx 322mins (assuming all calls are MTN to MTN)
but in order to enjoy the new 310/= I have to pay 20,000/= per month
So I spend 120,000/= and get 322 minutes. A difference of a HUGE 4 minutes for an extra 10,000/=
I told her this was a RIP OFF. She then said that Yello-go is for people who use more than 150,000/ per month.
I said OK, I DO YOU USE that as it is all business calls and I usually buy approximately 200,000/= worth of airtime per month.
So we work it out again (you basically double the figures)
last Month I would have spent 210,000/= got 230,000 airtime and at 360/= per minute gotten 638 mins
Now i will spend 220,000/= and get 200,000 airtime and at 310/= per minute get 645 mins.
So MTN takes 10,000/= more from my pocket and give me only 7 minutes for it (at 310/= per minute I am supposed to get 32 minutes more for the 10K)!!
So they chew my 25 minutes and I am supposed to keep smiling.
And remember that is if all my calls were MTN to MTN (which as business calls they are not! so its probably much worse)
So the girl at the MTN shop says "But now you get 90 days access" I told her that was bullshit because I have to still pay 20,000/= per month regardless of the 90 days!
I think it is finally time to switch. Its just not worth it anymore. And I had sooooo been waiting to get data on my phone so I could surf from home using my laptop. I had been told the recent upgrade would do this for pay-as-you-go. But at this rate, who knows what the rates will be for data on MTN!
Watch my sig, my phone will be changing soon!
Kiggs
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