#vodacom — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/174003/ Vodacom injects over R470m into M-Pesa Tanzania #AirtelMoney #EastAfrica #EcoCash #MPesa #MPesaTanzania #MobileMoney #MTN #OrangeMoney #PhilipBesiimire #Tanzania #Télécoms #Vodacom
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/168798/ Vodacom Tanzania boosts M-PESA with $28m upgrade #Financials #fintech #MPesa #MobileBusiness #PhilipBesiimire #Tanzania #Télécoms #Vodacom
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/141745/ Vodacom, Paymentology launch tap-to-pay in Tanzania #AccessBank #AndroidTapToPay #LibertyGroup #MPesa #MamaMoney #massmart #MobileMoney #MobilePayments #MobileMoneyMarketAfrica #mukuru #Paymentology #payments #PickNPay #Safaricom #Santam #spar #StandardBank #Tanzania #TapToPay #Vodacom #VodacomTanzania
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/138522/ M-Pesa Adds Tap-to-Pay on Android Phones in Tanzania #android #MPesa #Paymentology #Tanzania #Visa #Vodacom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/304463/ New rules for mobile data in SA including rollovers and transfers #CellC #data #DataMustFall #Editor'sChoice #Éire #IE #IndependentCommunicationsAuthorityOfSouthAfrica(ICASA) #Ireland #Mobile #MTN #Technology #Telkom #Vodacom
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Nice! No need to visit a Vodacom Store.
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Debt-strained #Kenya to sell #Safaricom stake to #Vodacom in $1.6 billion deal
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Debt-strained #Kenya to sell #Safaricom stake to #Vodacom in $1.6 billion deal
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Debt-strained #Kenya to sell #Safaricom stake to #Vodacom in $1.6 billion deal
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Debt-strained #Kenya to sell #Safaricom stake to #Vodacom in $1.6 billion deal
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Debt-strained #Kenya to sell #Safaricom stake to #Vodacom in $1.6 billion deal
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Vodacom, Doğu Afrika'nın telekomünikasyon devi Safaricom'u milyarlarca dolarlık bir anlaşmayla devralıyor! 🌍 Afrika mobil pazarında dengeler değişiyor, dijitalleşme ve mobil iletişimde yeni bir dönem başlıyor.
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@flipsideza
100% and I ditched them after several incidents. Somehow though, MyBroadband lists AfriHost as the best ISP year after year. Goes to show those ratings are either bought or fake and that MyBroadband opinions cannot be trusted. Same goes with Vodacom Business - sheer incompetence. -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/480176/ South Africans catch a break with reduced data costs #2019MarketInquiry #act #African #AssociationOfCommsAndTechnology #CellC #CompetitionCommission #CostOfLivingReport #COVID19 #DataServicesMarketInquiry #icasa #IndependentMedia #Internet #iol #MTN #NomvuyisoBatyi #opensignal #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricans #Technology #TelkomMobile #UK #UnitedKingdom #Vodacom #whatsapp
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South Africans catch a break with reduced data costs
Nomvuyiso Batyi|Published 58 minutes ago South Africans are no strangers to the…
#NewsBeep #News #Internet #2019marketinquiry #ACT #African #associationofcommsandtechnology #AU #Australia #CellC #CompetitionCommission #costoflivingreport #covid-19 #dataservicesmarketinquiry #ICASA #independentmedia #iol #MTN #nomvuyisobatyi #opensignal #SouthAfrica #southafricans #Technology #telkommobile #Vodacom #WhatsApp
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/195141/ -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/399715/ #DataMustFall legacy endures as wireless costs rise only 1% ##DataMustFall #5G #CellC #CompetitionCommission #CostOfLiving #Fibre #Internet #InternetAccess #LTE #MTN #SADataPrices #Technology #Telkom #UK #UnitedKingdom #Vodacom #wireless #WirelessCosts
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#DataMustFall legacy endures as wireless costs rise only 1%
The consumer price of wireless internet shows a 1% increase over a three-year period. South Africans are paying…
#NewsBeep #News #Internet ##DataMustFall #5g #AU #Australia #CellC #CompetitionCommission #costofliving #Fibre #internetaccess #LTE #MTN #SAdataprices #Technology #Telkom #Vodacom #Wireless #wirelesscosts
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/120469/ -
WTF - tell me this is not true!
"The companies describe the service as a first-of-its-kind credit scoring solution..."
#SouthAfrica #Privacy #MassSurveillance #CreditBureau #Transunion #MTN #Vodacom
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South Africans, I'm sure you've all heard of the #PleaseCallMe debacle by now[*]. What do you think? Do you think the Nkosana Makate should get any money?
[*] In a nutshell, this guy, Nkosana Makate was working in the accounts department at Vodacom, many years ago. He came up with an idea for a service where Vodacom (a cellular provider) customers could enter a USSD code for free, and Vodacom would in turn send an SMS message to another subscriber saying asking if they would mind calling the person back. Literally, "Please Call Me", for when you don't have any airtime on your phone and you need to get in touch with someone.
Over the years, Please Call Me became a staple of Vodacom -- and other providers in South Africa -- and at its height, there were probably tens of milllions of them being sent every day.
Nkosana Makate has been embroiled in a legal battle with Vodacom for the past few years, because he believes they should pay him for coming up with the idea.
I hope I've summed that up well enough? :-)
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South Africans, I'm sure you've all heard of the #PleaseCallMe debacle by now[*]. What do you think? Do you think the Nkosana Makate should get any money?
[*] In a nutshell, this guy, Nkosana Makate was working in the accounts department at Vodacom, many years ago. He came up with an idea for a service where Vodacom (a cellular provider) customers could enter a USSD code for free, and Vodacom would in turn send an SMS message to another subscriber saying asking if they would mind calling the person back. Literally, "Please Call Me", for when you don't have any airtime on your phone and you need to get in touch with someone.
Over the years, Please Call Me became a staple of Vodacom -- and other providers in South Africa -- and at its height, there were probably tens of milllions of them being sent every day.
Nkosana Makate has been embroiled in a legal battle with Vodacom for the past few years, because he believes they should pay him for coming up with the idea.
I hope I've summed that up well enough? :-)
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South Africans, I'm sure you've all heard of the #PleaseCallMe debacle by now[*]. What do you think? Do you think the Nkosana Makate should get any money?
[*] In a nutshell, this guy, Nkosana Makate was working in the accounts department at Vodacom, many years ago. He came up with an idea for a service where Vodacom (a cellular provider) customers could enter a USSD code for free, and Vodacom would in turn send an SMS message to another subscriber saying asking if they would mind calling the person back. Literally, "Please Call Me", for when you don't have any airtime on your phone and you need to get in touch with someone.
Over the years, Please Call Me became a staple of Vodacom -- and other providers in South Africa -- and at its height, there were probably tens of milllions of them being sent every day.
Nkosana Makate has been embroiled in a legal battle with Vodacom for the past few years, because he believes they should pay him for coming up with the idea.
I hope I've summed that up well enough? :-)
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South Africans, I'm sure you've all heard of the #PleaseCallMe debacle by now[*]. What do you think? Do you think the Nkosana Makate should get any money?
[*] In a nutshell, this guy, Nkosana Makate was working in the accounts department at Vodacom, many years ago. He came up with an idea for a service where Vodacom (a cellular provider) customers could enter a USSD code for free, and Vodacom would in turn send an SMS message to another subscriber saying asking if they would mind calling the person back. Literally, "Please Call Me", for when you don't have any airtime on your phone and you need to get in touch with someone.
Over the years, Please Call Me became a staple of Vodacom -- and other providers in South Africa -- and at its height, there were probably tens of milllions of them being sent every day.
Nkosana Makate has been embroiled in a legal battle with Vodacom for the past few years, because he believes they should pay him for coming up with the idea.
I hope I've summed that up well enough? :-)
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South Africans, I'm sure you've all heard of the #PleaseCallMe debacle by now[*]. What do you think? Do you think the Nkosana Makate should get any money?
[*] In a nutshell, this guy, Nkosana Makate was working in the accounts department at Vodacom, many years ago. He came up with an idea for a service where Vodacom (a cellular provider) customers could enter a USSD code for free, and Vodacom would in turn send an SMS message to another subscriber saying asking if they would mind calling the person back. Literally, "Please Call Me", for when you don't have any airtime on your phone and you need to get in touch with someone.
Over the years, Please Call Me became a staple of Vodacom -- and other providers in South Africa -- and at its height, there were probably tens of milllions of them being sent every day.
Nkosana Makate has been embroiled in a legal battle with Vodacom for the past few years, because he believes they should pay him for coming up with the idea.
I hope I've summed that up well enough? :-)
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In what has become a daily occurrence this week, mobile #Internet connectivity has once aagain been shutdown in #Mozambique in the wake of election-related protests. Each shutdown this week has lasted 10-11 hours, impacting #Vodacom and #Movitel. (Earlier ones also disrupted Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique.)
See current status at https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/mz
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#Mozambique is experiencing its 4th consecutive daily, and 5th overall, #mobile #Internet shutdown, with clear impact to traffic from #Movitel and #Vodacom starting at 19:30 local time (17:30 UTC).
See more at https://radar.cloudflare.com/mz
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In a significant stride towards enhancing #digital #literacy, #Huawei and #Vodacom Tanzania have launched the #DigiTruck initiative, a #mobile #classroom designed to provide digital #education and skills training across #Tanzania. The DigiTruck aims to reach Tanzania's remote regions, focusing on #youth and #women, to bridge the digital divide and #empower these communities to participate in the #global digital #economy. https://cnbusinessforum.com/huawei-and-vodacom-tanzania-launch-digitruck-to-boost-digital-literacy/
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In a significant stride towards enhancing #digital #literacy, #Huawei and #Vodacom Tanzania have launched the #DigiTruck initiative, a #mobile #classroom designed to provide digital #education and skills training across #Tanzania. The DigiTruck aims to reach Tanzania's remote regions, focusing on #youth and #women, to bridge the digital divide and #empower these communities to participate in the #global digital #economy. https://cnbusinessforum.com/huawei-and-vodacom-tanzania-launch-digitruck-to-boost-digital-literacy/
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I'm on #Vodacom Fibre, and I noticed nothing. Did anyone have #Fibre problems in #SouthAfrica yesterday?
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/fibre/546007-huge-fibre-problems-in-south-africa.html?utm_source=MastodonAfrica #Internet
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So at #vodacom store. Thier computers dont let them change my postal address... I have to fill out a form which then 'send off' they dont know how long it will take! WTF
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I've been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I've been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no longer had a work cellphone allowance. It was just cheaper to move to a pre-paid service.
When I moved to pre-paid, I just asked them to change my contract to pre-paid, and I went on from there, topping the account up every second month or so. Whenever I topped up I saw I was offered 30% extra airtime for whatever I bought - that's nice, so if I spent R100 I'd actually get R130 or whatever it was. But over the last 3 months after moving medical aids I do now spend up to an hour or longer talking on the phone to my medical aid and I noticed the costs are nearly R100 a call.
Today I got another offer from Afrihost to switch to their new AirMobile offering (which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator). So I checked out the call costs and noted they were 64c per minute. I phoned Vodacom to check what I was paying as I can never see in the VodaPay app what the call rates were, and I also cannot see any history of itemised calls (except for the data use on my data SIM). I was then told I'm paying R1.53 per minute for calls! So, I get an extra 30% of airtime when I top up, but I'm paying over 100% more in costs! What a rip-off. It was explained to me that there are actually three different pre-paid plans, and I was on the Power Bonus one, but there is a different one that is only 79c per minute, if I'd like them to switch me to that one. No-one told me there were three options when I was switched to pre-paid, and I always thought there was just "pre-paid". Well.... I replied that actually don't worry, I'm going to rather switch providers, but I asked her to escalate the issue that no-one gave me any options when I was changed to pre-paid and how come I ended up on the most expensive one - there is no loyalty from the company after you've been with them for 20 years.
I'm not going to (yet) say Afrihost's AirMobile is the best out there, but for me, it is certainly way better than I was getting from Vodacom. The whole migration was completed online and live after about 3 hours, including the RICA process and the number porting. As I have a phone with eSIM capability, I just scanned the QR code that came in the e-mail, and my eSIM was set up.
Apart from the way cheaper costs, visibility of pricing, and way simpler online management (without all the adverts and bonus offer popups in the VodaPay app), the AirMobile offering also shows me detailed usage of both the data usage and itemised phone calls with the cost for each call (no itemised billing was included on pre-paid with Vodacom).
The fact that I received a free R100 of airtime and 10GB of data from AirMobile was not at all why I changed, as I look only at ongoing monthly usage costs. But it is a nice sweetener seeing I had R88 credit left at Vodacom which I lose.
The moral of the story though is, just like with short term insurance, life insurance and bank accounts, you have no investment value in those companies at all, no matter how long you've been with them. If you want a better deal, you need to look around and then just make a move. An exception may be if you get quite hefty loyalty bonuses, like I get from my short term insurance for no claims. But still, factor that in and decide if you want to move after your bonus is paid out, or weigh up what you will save overall over 3 or 5 years anyway.
So, let's see how this goes with Afrihost. Afrihost has been my fibre ISP for the last few years, and I've been really happy with their service so far. My migration described above, though, was purely my own initiative, and all I received was the standard migration package and pricing that everyone else receives. I know it sounds a bit like an advert, but it is an important principle to look around for better offers you can get, no matter where you decide to go.
#technology #SouthAfrica #Afrihost #AirMobile #Vodacom -
I've been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I've been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no longer had a work cellphone allowance. It was just cheaper to move to a pre-paid service.
When I moved to pre-paid, I just asked them to change my contract to pre-paid, and I went on from there, topping the account up every second month or so. Whenever I topped up I saw I was offered 30% extra airtime for whatever I bought - that's nice, so if I spent R100 I'd actually get R130 or whatever it was. But over the last 3 months after moving medical aids I do now spend up to an hour or longer talking on the phone to my medical aid and I noticed the costs are nearly R100 a call.
Today I got another offer from Afrihost to switch to their new AirMobile offering (which is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator). So I checked out the call costs and noted they were 64c per minute. I phoned Vodacom to check what I was paying as I can never see in the VodaPay app what the call rates were, and I also cannot see any history of itemised calls (except for the data use on my data SIM). I was then told I'm paying R1.53 per minute for calls! So, I get an extra 30% of airtime when I top up, but I'm paying over 100% more in costs! What a rip-off. It was explained to me that there are actually three different pre-paid plans, and I was on the Power Bonus one, but there is a different one that is only 79c per minute, if I'd like them to switch me to that one. No-one told me there were three options when I was switched to pre-paid, and I always thought there was just "pre-paid". Well.... I replied that actually don't worry, I'm going to rather switch providers, but I asked her to escalate the issue that no-one gave me any options when I was changed to pre-paid and how come I ended up on the most expensive one - there is no loyalty from the company after you've been with them for 20 years.
I'm not going to (yet) say Afrihost's AirMobile is the best out there, but for me, it is certainly way better than I was getting from Vodacom. The whole migration was completed online and live after about 3 hours, including the RICA process and the number porting. As I have a phone with eSIM capability, I just scanned the QR code that came in the e-mail, and my eSIM was set up.
Apart from the way cheaper costs, visibility of pricing, and way simpler online management (without all the adverts and bonus offer popups in the VodaPay app), the AirMobile offering also shows me detailed usage of both the data usage and itemised phone calls with the cost for each call (no itemised billing was included on pre-paid with Vodacom).
The fact that I received a free R100 of airtime and 10GB of data from AirMobile was not at all why I changed, as I look only at ongoing monthly usage costs. But it is a nice sweetener seeing I had R88 credit left at Vodacom which I lose.
The moral of the story though is, just like with short term insurance, life insurance and bank accounts, you have no investment value in those companies at all, no matter how long you've been with them. If you want a better deal, you need to look around and then just make a move. An exception may be if you get quite hefty loyalty bonuses, like I get from my short term insurance for no claims. But still, factor that in and decide if you want to move after your bonus is paid out, or weigh up what you will save overall over 3 or 5 years anyway.
So, let's see how this goes with Afrihost. Afrihost has been my fibre ISP for the last few years, and I've been really happy with their service so far. My migration described above, though, was purely my own initiative, and all I received was the standard migration package and pricing that everyone else receives. I know it sounds a bit like an advert, but it is an important principle to look around for better offers you can get, no matter where you decide to go.
#technology #SouthAfrica #Afrihost #AirMobile #Vodacom -
Why after nearly 20 years I moved away from Vodacom – Loyalty often does not Pay
I’ve been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I’ve been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no longer had a work cellphone allowance. It was just cheaper to move ...continues
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Why after nearly 20 years I moved away from Vodacom – Loyalty often does not Pay
I’ve been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I’ve been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no longer had a work cellphone allowance. It was just cheaper to move ...continues
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Why after nearly 20 years I moved away from Vodacom – Loyalty often does not Pay
I’ve been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I’ve been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no longer had a work cellphone allowance. It was just cheaper to move ...continues
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Why after nearly 20 years I moved away from Vodacom – Loyalty often does not Pay
I’ve been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I’ve been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no longer had a work cellphone allowance. It was just cheaper to move ...continues
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Why after nearly 20 years I moved away from Vodacom – Loyalty often does not Pay
I’ve been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I’ve been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no longer had a work cellphone allowance. It was just cheaper to move ...continues
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Why after nearly 20 years I moved away from Vodacom – Loyalty often does not Pay
Screenshot of part of an e-mail saying "Your eSIM is ready to download". I’ve been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I’ve been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no […]
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-f9d46a8d-d2955264b220582b
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Why after nearly 20 years I moved away from Vodacom – Loyalty often does not Pay
Screenshot of part of an e-mail saying "Your eSIM is ready to download". I’ve been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I’ve been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no […]
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-f9d46a8d-d2955264b220582b
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Why after nearly 20 years I moved away from Vodacom – Loyalty often does not Pay
Screenshot of part of an e-mail saying "Your eSIM is ready to download". I’ve been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I’ve been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no […]
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-f9d46a8d-d2955264b220582b
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Why after nearly 20 years I moved away from Vodacom – Loyalty often does not Pay
Screenshot of part of an e-mail saying "Your eSIM is ready to download". I’ve been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I’ve been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no […]
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-f9d46a8d-d2955264b220582b
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Why after nearly 20 years I moved away from Vodacom – Loyalty often does not Pay
Screenshot of part of an e-mail saying "Your eSIM is ready to download". I’ve been with Vodacom since just after number porting went live in South Africa, and I’ve been on a contract with them for most of that time until after I retired from work, and no […]
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-f9d46a8d-d2955264b220582b
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Amazon forges satellite deal with Vodafone and Vodacom
Vodafone and its African subsidiary, Vodacom, have made a deal to use Amazon’s yet-to-be-deployed Project Kuiper satellite broadband network to extend the reach of their 4G/5G cellular networks.The deal, which was announced this week by Amazon as well as British-based
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/09/06/amazon-forges-satellite-deal-with-vodafone-and-vodacom/
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Here's a list of all #USSD codes used by #Vodacom, #MTN, and #Telkom. Could be useful to bookmark:
https://techcentral.co.za/listed-ussd-codes-on-vodacom-mtn-and-telkom/228588/?utm_source=mastodon
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If anyone had any doubt why #Vodacom #SouthAfrica is so keen for you to install their "My Vodacom" App, here's 👇 your answer. Happy blocking all fine people of SA 😉
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The worst part of it - it should all be opt-in and NOT, opt-out. Can anyone remember to have ever given explicit consent to get spammed by your Mobile Network Provider or anyone else? #MTN #Vodacom #CellC #SouthAfrica