-
Dec
4thHow to Check Your Free Minutes if you are a Vodacom Contract Subscriber
If you are a contract subscriber on the Vodacom network, then checking to see how many free minutes you have is particularly easy thanks to the 111 USSD service Vodacom has in place. To use, dial *111#. From the resulting menu, select 1 for balances. From the next menu, select 1 again, thereby choosing the “Free Minute Balance” menu option. Simple as that really. (From what I understand, this service is completely free of charge. How nice of them.)
-
Aug
31stWhen is Vodacom Off-Peak Time in Operation?
Because off-peak varies from provider to provider, I thought it a good idea to jot down just when exactly Vodacom’s off-peak minutes are in operation, seeing as my contract shows that I have somehow managed to rack up a fair bit of these over the last couple of months. A quick shout out to Vodacom customer care netted me the following information regarding off-peak operation: Weekdays, in other words Monday to Friday, off-peak applies from 20:00 in the evening until 07:00 in the morning. Weekends are completely covered by off-peak, meaning that it starts at 20:00 on Friday evening and stretches until 07:00 on Monday morning. Finally, public holidays are also covered completely by off-peak, meaning that the discounted rate kicks on at 20:00 of the day before the public holiday and ends at 07:00 on the day following the public holiday. And now we all know, which of course is pretty nifty! :)
-
Aug
23rdWhen is Vodacom Off-Peak Time in Operation?Because off-peak varies from provider to provider, I thought it a good idea to jot down just when exactly Vodacom’s off-peak minutes are in operation, seeing as my contract shows that I have somehow managed to rack up a fair bit of these over the last couple of months. A quick shout out to Vodacom customer care netted me the following information regarding off-peak operation: Weekdays, in other words Monday to Friday, off-peak applies from 20:00 in the evening until 07:00 in the morning. Weekends are completely covered by off-peak, meaning that it starts at 20:00 on Friday evening and stretches until 07:00 on Monday morning. Finally, public holidays are also covered completely by off-peak, meaning that the discounted rate kicks on at 20:00 of the day before the public holiday and ends at 07:00 on the day following the public holiday. And now we all know, which of course is pretty nifty! :)
-
Jun
27thHow to Check your Airtime Balance on MTN
If you are on the MTN mobile phone network then it is a pretty simple task to check your remaining airtime if you are a prepaid (or even a contract) customer via their nifty little Balance Enquiry feature.
-
Jun
15thMy Introduction to Android: Galaxy Ace S5830
What, who, how?! I didn’t believe the SMS I received the other day from Vodacom, alerting me to the fact that I could now upgrade. “That’s impossible,” I exclaimed, “there is no way that I’ve had my delightful Samsung Star for two years already!” But a quick check in my records revealed the truth – it had been two years already and I was indeed due for an upgrade, nice, and after seeing an advert on TV for the new Samsung Galaxy Ace on a Vodacom contract, I sprung into action and did some Internet research – all of which led to a very quick realization that this was indeed the phone I wanted, my first ever Android “smartphone”, and most importantly, probably the shortest ever phone search in the history of me owning a mobile phone! :) Anyway, I placed a quick phone call to the Vodacom shop in the mall (Somerset Mall in case you were wondering) just to make sure they had some Galaxies in stock (they had 5) and half an hour later, I found myself seated in the Vodacom Shop waiting for assistant Wendy to fill in all the necessary forms before I handed over my upgrade administration fee and left the store, now a proud owner of a shiny black Samsung (I’m such a fanboy) Android midrange smartphone. And boy am I pleased with my upgrade (as is Chantelle who is quite jealous and now full of respite that she didn’t do the necessary [...]
-
Jun
1stHow to Send a Please Call Me on Cell C
A callback, or rather Please Call Me as it has come to be universally known in South Africa, is a rather nifty concept that allows you to send a free SMS to any other Cell C customer asking them to call you back, usually because you don’t have any money on your phone – or are to cheap to use any of your own precious airtime!
-
May
31stHow to Check your Airtime Balance on Cell CIf you are on the Cell C mobile phone network then it is a pretty simple task to check your remaining airtime if you are a prepaid (or even a contract) customer via their nifty little balance enquiry feature.
-
May
30thHow to Check your Airtime Balance on VodacomIf you are on the Vodacom mobile phone network then it is a pretty simple task to check your remaining airtime if you are a prepaid (or even a contract) customer via their nifty little balance enquiry feature.
-
May
3rdHow to Send a Please Call Me on MTNA callback, or rather Please Call Me as it has come to be universally known in South Africa, is a rather nifty concept that allows you to send a free SMS to any other MTN customer asking them to call you back, usually because you don’t have any money on your phone – or are to cheap to use any of your own precious airtime!
-
Apr
26thHow to Send a Please Call Me on VodacomA callback, or rather Please Call Me as it has come to be universally known in South Africa, is a rather nifty concept that allows you to send a free SMS to any other Vodacom customer asking them to call you back, usually because you don’t have any money on your phone – or are to cheap to use any of your own precious airtime!
-
Jan
19thThe Warm Water Spa and the Cellphone
My dear old father-in-law Monty managed to achieve the quite unthinkable this past weekend (which we spent as a Montgomery Clan getaway to Warmwaterberg Spa just by the way)
