False contract with dubious MTN provider
I have been an MTN customer for 20 years and have been on contract with them. In November bought a new cellphone at an MTN store and was told that my contract would need to be upgraded in February. I was told that someone had contacted me to tell me about an upgrade but I said this had not happened. I was then told that someone would contact me. I told the store that I wanted to stay on the same contract as I had been on - namely MyCall 200. I was then sent a new Sim card but the person on the phone said I would be sent a contract - this was never delivered. In December for the first time ever in my 20 year contract, I ran out of airtime and data - which has never happened before and my use of the phone had not changed. At 3am on 25 December, in the middle of a burglary at my home, I did not have airtime to call the police and had to try and buy air time and data. I ran out of data and airtime again in early January and went in to 3 different MTN stores and was told to contact 3 different numbers of MTN subsidiaries as they said my contract had been outsourced to a subsidiary - none of the numbers were correct and were private individual's homes. I phoned MTN in January and explained that I had never asked or agreed to be put on a different contract and asked to have my prior contract resumed. I also said that my contract was with MTN, not some ***** subsidiary, who clearly was not giving me the airtime and data and I had requested. I was told by the call centre operator that my contract would revert to the previous package. Clearly this did not happen. Once again, I have run out of data and airtime and nothing has been done to revert my contract to the previous contract where I never had problems running out of airtime and data. The complete lack of customer service and support, the palming me off on a dubious subsidiary of MTN and broken promises are unacceptable.
Thank you for your post.
Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience experienced.
Kindly be advised that the upgrade have been reversed and the old package that you were on is no longer available on the system as per our telephone conversation please go to your nearest MTN branch to upgrade your contract.
We would like to assure you that we are actively working to improve our service levels.
Regards
Mike Ramaboka
Complaints Management Team
Best regards,
Thank you for your post.
Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience experienced.
Kindly be advised that the upgrade have been reversed and the old package that you were on is no longer available on the system as per our telephone conversation please go to your nearest MTN branch to upgrade your contract.
We would like to assure you that we are actively working to improve our service levels.
Regards
Mike Ramaboka
Complaints Management Team
Best regards,
