1 reviews | Active since Oct 2022
Why does Vodacom provide a channel for ***** content providers?
After a meeting, I opened my cellphone to find an advert for Hoopers TV; and needed to backspace about 5 times to get back to a screen I wanted. Next thing I received an SMS saying I had successfully subscribed to Hoopers TV - free for one day and then R10 per day, to be added to my Vodacom contract. The message also gave me a Vodacom number to unsubscribe if I wanted. I tried this but after following a menu was told to go to VodaPay. Later I went on to Chat GPT which was very helpful: gave me another number to unsubscribe and also informed me that these subscriptions were a common cause of problems. Further information was that Vodacom indeed has a policy of hosting content providers and allowing payment to be added to a Vodacom account. I think Vodacom should consider this practice very carefully: especially if they are going to host ***** providers like Hoopers TV, who have set up their web page to make it very easy to subscribe just by inadvertently pressing one wrong button. This exercise took 30 minutes out of my day, and makes me consider seriously whether I should port my cellphone number to another provider.
