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.
For prepaid, or PayAsYouGo as MTN likes to describe them, subscribers, simply dial 141 from your cellphone to hear an update on your remaining airtime or SMS bundle. Alternatively, dial *141# and MTN will automatically send you a SMS containing your remaining airtime balance.
And how nice of them, both these options are free.
For contract subscribers, a call to 258 will give you an update on your remaining free minutes or SMS bundle. Again, this one is free as well!
Nice :)
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2018-02-22 Update:
MTN have announced new codes so as to fall within ICASA’s number plan regulations. The shortcodes are now as follows:
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!
Cell C allows each customer five Please Call Me SMS messages per day, and to send is actually pretty simple.
All you have to do is dial *111*cellphone number# (where ‘cellphone number’ is the friend’s phone you want to contact) and a Please Call Me SMS will automatically be delivered to the relevant person at no cost to you.
If 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.
For prepaid or contract subscribers, simply dial 140 from your cellphone to hear an update on your remaining airtime or SMS bundle. Alternatively, dial *147# and select option 3 or as a last resort SMS ‘bal’ or ‘balance’ to 14302 and Cell C will automatically send you a SMS containing your remaining aiairtime, balance, check balance, mobile phone, mobile network, cellphone, cell crtime balance.
If 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.
For Vodacom prepaid subscribers, a quick dial to *100# (and similarly for contract subscribers, a dial of *111#), will give you an update on your remaining free minutes or SMS bundle. (Follow the resulting menu options if applicable.)
Note that this service is completely free of charge. How nice of them.
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 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!
MTN allows each customer two Please Call Me SMS messages per day, and to send is actually pretty simple.
All you have to do is dial *121*cellphone number# (where ‘cellphone number’ is the friend’s phone you want to contact) and a Please Call Me SMS will automatically be delivered to the relevant person at no cost to you.
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 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!
Vodacom allows each customer ten Please Call Me SMS messages per day, and to send is actually pretty simple.
All you have to do is dial *140*cellphone number# (where ‘cellphone number’ is the friend’s phone you want to contact) and a Please Call Me SMS will automatically be delivered to the relevant person at no cost to you.
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.
