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Ishaan L

1 reviews | Active since Nov 2015

02 Nov 2015, 16:34

Malformed data charges

Dear Peter, I have been fighting MTN for the past 5 months now without success. I noted data charges on my account have been excessive since April. I analyzed the URL report to find sites visited NOT BY ME! I have also noted that MTN charges for data usage (as packet switch data) on my invoice, though my phones Data Usage software clearly shows much less data was used. All of such sites are of adult content, and I believe internal sabotage of MTN database. Also, many people have this very same problem! <br> I have spent countless hours with operators at 808, 1555, JHB head office and they have sent me telephonically from one department to the other without resolve. No operator is able to actively involve themselves with this issue, rather it assigned a reference number and then lost in their system. No one follows up, and no one communicates. For 2 months now I have been unable to speak to someone in charge! The operator always announces that management are in a meeting! It is much like a brick wall. Nothing moves beyond the density that is within the help-center. <br> This has been an absolute nightmare!

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MTN South Africa
MTN South Africa's reply03 Nov 2015, 13:24
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Hello IshaanLilje,

We are sorry for any inconvenience caused and for the delay with the matter being resolved.

We are have now perused your account and specifically all requests that were logged on your behalf (REQ:*** / REQ:*** / REQ:*** / REQ:***). The charges have been validated and deemed correct on numerous occassions through our Billing Department and the Data Specialist within our Billing Department.

We can confirm that the entry for additional usage is reflected as Packet Switch Data Call Charges on all our customer invoices. The URL reports sent to yourself only reflects content that was directly generated from the SIM card.

From a complaints resolution perspective, the usage has been confirmed by our Billing Department and the total amount of R7339.10 is payable. If you need to make a payment arrangement, we can get our Credit Management Team to assist you accordingly.

Regards
Tim
MTN Complaints Management Team: REQ:***