MTN Contract
<p> I have a contract with MTN and in March I lost my phone and on the 10 of March I reported the issue to MTN to blacklist my device which they dually did and I never used my sim card for two weeks during that period. I went to the MTN store in Woodmead retail complex and did a sim swap and I statrted using my sin card as I would normally of course knowning that I have data bundle but to my suprise when I receive my statement my bill was tree times more than my usual bill which was around R2800.00 and my average bill is R1200. I logged a complain with MTN and was told that my query will be logged with the technical department and somebody from MTN will call me and nobody called me until I make a follow up call with the call centre to find out the status of my query. I was told that the incident call is still opened and I must just wait but as a good client of MTN I said to the call center operator that I will pay my average money for my contract and wait for the feedback of my call and no one at MTN called until my line was suspended.When I called the MTN call centre to query why my line was suspended as I have a case opened with MTN I was told that it is because the technical deprtment concluded the high bill was due to data charge and when I asked how possible is it that I was using my new sim card I was using it for normal iternet stuff I usually do , how is it possible tht my bill jump from an average of R1000 to R2800 in 2 weeks? I was told that this is because when I did my sim swap my data bundle was not loaded into my new sim card and I was charged outside data bundle. This was shocking because no one informed me of this but I said it is fine I'll pay the money and I made arrange with MTN that I'll pay the money in the next 3 months or so and I even wrote a letter of arrangement to MTN to that regard, and I have been paying bill since then knowing very well that my bill is in arrears and I have made a commitment that I will settle it very soon but to my surprise yet again my line was suspended again yesterday without any notice. Now I had to call the MTN call center and I'm now been told that my account is sitting with MTN legal deprtment and I must leave an alternative and somebody from the legal deprtment will call me , till this moment no one called me and I have been calling the MTN call center the whole day today and I have been given three different numbers to contact the MTN legal deprtment and I called all three numbers where at any given time I was holding for over 40 minutes without any joy. I found this to be very unprofessional for MTN to treat me like this after so many years being with them and I have always been paying for my contract and now I find myself without any mode of personal cmmunication because my line is suspended and this means that somebody at MTN disreagrded the arrangement I made and went ahead to suspend my and hand over my account to the legal department or MTN divions are working in silos. I am not a happy customer at the moment!</p>
Thank you for your post.
We are terribly sorry for the inconveniences that you experienced as a result of this. We completely understand the frustration it causes.
Kindly note that the matter has been referred to the management team of the legal division for urgent attention. They will investigate and revert to you with feedback and a way forward.
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention and would like to assure you that we are actively working to improve our service levels.
Regards
Nompumelelo
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Thank you for your post.
We are terribly sorry for the inconveniences that you experienced as a result of this. We completely understand the frustration it causes.
Kindly note that the matter has been referred to the management team of the legal division for urgent attention. They will investigate and revert to you with feedback and a way forward.
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention and would like to assure you that we are actively working to improve our service levels.
Regards
Nompumelelo
REQ: **********
