Are you looking for information on how to check subscriptions on MTN? Do you have unwanted subscriptions on your phone that are gobbling up your airtime? If yes, then this article is the one that you have been looking for. Subscriptions on phones can be annoying. Usually, you subscribe to a service innocently enough. However, you soon realize that you are losing money without being aware where it is going. So, you need to see which services you have subscribed to on your MTN phone. We show you how to do it in this article;
How to See Subscriptions on MTN
To check the subscriptions that are running on your MTN phone, you need to take the following steps;
- Go to your MTN phone and dial *141*5#.
- Next, choose the Content Services option (option 2).
- Now to to Manage Content Services.
- Follow the prompts to view your content services.
Why do you need this information?
Subscriptions are useful, till they become annoying by gobbling your airtime. That’s the major reason why people look to stop them. If you need to cancel all subscriptions on MTN, follow the steps outlined in that article.
Other than by using up your airtime, subscription services can also be just annoying. That’s why you may be looking to find out what’s running on your phone. Once you have this information, you will them be able to deal with them.
In South Africa, there is what’s referred to as the Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (WASPA). You may actually not have heard about this association. Their role is to protect people from unsolicited marketing on phones.
Examples of MTN Subscriptions
MTN partners with a number of companies to provide WASP services. The following are a few examples;
- iGrade
- Integrat
- iTouch
- Mira Networks
- Mobile Internet Gateway
- Molo Afrika
- MyBeat Interactive
- Pattern Matched Technologies
- Rate n Date
- SMSPortal
- Teleplay Communications
- Cellfind
- Exact Mobile
- FoneWorx
- Grapevine Interactive Marketing
Are WASPs Useful?
WASPs often get a bad rap. That’s why you are here looking for information on how to check subscriptions on MTN. You are wondering which of them has been eating up your airtime. You want to get rid of them. So, are WASPs useful?
The answer is yes, they are very useful. They help enhance the mobile communication experience. MTN says they provide a number of useful services, such as bulk SMS, USSD and MMS to companies offering various services.
So, yes, WASPs can be useful. The only challenge is that a lot of people subscribe without first carrying out research on what they will be getting. If you sign up for a service that deducts such and such an amount per week, as an example, you shouldn’t be surprised when money starts disappearing from your phone.
Anyway, what do you think? Are MTN subscriptions services useful or should you hunt them down and remove them? Feel free to take part in the debate on our Forum. Also check out our article on how to buy Power hour bundles on Vodacom.