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<p>So I upgraded my cell contract with telkom on the 27th of July 2016. The salesman handed me the new phone and the sim and I remember asking him, so when is this sim active and when do we need to switch over..</p> <p>His response was, that it was fine and that we could use the new sim immediately even though we were still running out the previous months data and call time.</p> <p>Come end of August 2016 and I receive a bill for R1200 in total ... wher I am now being charged R500 for the device from 1July until 31 July evn though I only received the device on the 27th.</p> <p>On top of that, I am being charged R15 for data even though I had not used even half my data allocation of the old sim, with the same number mind you. I still had to pay my full subscription for the month of July, as per my old contract, but on top of that< i had to now pay for July again with the new contract.</p> <p> </p> <p>It is blatant ******* and an absolute disgrace that I have to pay for a full month becasue a saleman activated the sim 3 days prior to the month end.</p> <p> </p> <p>I am a long standing client of Telkom, both with High speed uncapped broadband, as well as my cell phone.. but this is really disspointing from them.</p>