1 reviews | Active since Mar 2009
Bad customer service
<p>After being a customer of MTN for such a long time, I'm forced to reconsider my status since there's nothing in it for me. For the whole year I have just encountered bad service after bad service. I'm currently on a Top-Up contract which will expire next November (2017), I have been on a Top-Up contract for the last 4 years. Every time I roam, I have to put in airtime in SA and any calls or sms are charged against that airtime. And that has always been the situation until April 2016 & Jun 2016 when I was roaming. For some reason there was an extra charge on my invoice on both occasion, when I enquired with MTN on what these charges are for, I was first told it's for the calls made during the roaming duration. When I made them aware of the fact that I had airtime loaded and these charges were supposed to go against that, then the explanation changed to "it's charges for having activated roaming on your account". I then requested that the function be deactivated, which I was informed it was deactivated. All this was prompted by the fact that I could not make calls anymore as my account was SUSPENDED. I was informed that the account will be activated and an investigation will follow. Months went by and now it's December 2016 and I can't make calls because my account is SUSPENDED, when I phoned to enquire I was told it's because of the same issue from April & June 2016. I have had invoices send to me from July - December 2016 which does not reflect any outstanding amount on the account. I now have been told that investigation will take 7 working days??? The investigation has been going on since April?????</p>
Thank you for your post
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced with our service.
Please be advised that the suspension has been lifted. The mobile number 083****353 is on My MTNChoice Flexi R200 which offers you inclusive “rand value”, flexibility to “Top-up” with airtime and the ability to manage your spend through the use of subscriber usage limit.
Please note that when roaming the usage will be billed from the recharged airtime only and once the airtime is depleted you will incur additional charges according to the usage because the usage limit is not app**** when roaming, the inclusive rand value will not be depleted when roaming.
Rest assured it is not our intention to displease you. We look forward to improving on the service delivery to you.
Kind Regards
Siphumezo
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Thank you for your post
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced with our service.
Please be advised that the suspension has been lifted. The mobile number 083****353 is on My MTNChoice Flexi R200 which offers you inclusive “rand value”, flexibility to “Top-up” with airtime and the ability to manage your spend through the use of subscriber usage limit.
Please note that when roaming the usage will be billed from the recharged airtime only and once the airtime is depleted you will incur additional charges according to the usage because the usage limit is not app**** when roaming, the inclusive rand value will not be depleted when roaming.
Rest assured it is not our intention to displease you. We look forward to improving on the service delivery to you.
Kind Regards
Siphumezo
REQ:***
Dear Siphumezo;
Please take note that the airtime that was loaded for use while roaming was still reflecting on my account when I got back into the country. My query since has been why am I getting billed, whilst there was airtime for any charges to go against that.
There's been since an investigation into happened then; and to this day, no one at Mobile Telephone Networks had being able to give me feedback. However my account keeps getting suspended over and over and over again.
Every time I phone-in every person that attends to my complaint tells me a different story (" their version of the explanation"), no one knows what is going on. For me the frustration has highlighted what customer services means to MTN.
My query since has been why am I getting billed, whilst there was airtime for any charges to go against that while I was roaming???
Dear Siphumezo;
Please take note that the airtime that was loaded for use while roaming was still reflecting on my account when I got back into the country. My query since has been why am I getting billed, whilst there was airtime for any charges to go against that.
There's been since an investigation into happened then; and to this day, no one at Mobile Telephone Networks had being able to give me feedback. However my account keeps getting suspended over and over and over again.
Every time I phone-in every person that attends to my complaint tells me a different story (" their version of the explanation"), no one knows what is going on. For me the frustration has highlighted what customer services means to MTN.
My query since has been why am I getting billed, whilst there was airtime for any charges to go against that while I was roaming???
