Have you been wondering how to stop airtime from disappearing on Vodacom in South Africa? Vodacom is a great network. It’s probably the reason why the company is the largest mobile communications provider in the country. However, like all the other networks, subscribers often complain about losing airtime on Vodacom without making any calls. So, how do you stop that from happening?
How to Stop Losing Airtime on Vodacom
To stop airtime from disappearing on Vodacom in South Africa, you need to take the following steps;
- First, you need check to see if there are any WASP subscription services running on your Vodacom phone.
- You may want to stop all these Vodacom subscriptions. Subscriptions are usually the biggest culprits when it comes to losing airtime mysteriously on Vodacom.
- If you have been entering competitions via USSD, that could be another of the reasons why airtime has been disappearing from you phone.
- Sometimes, you will lose Vodacom airtime if someone has been transferring airtime from you phone without your knowledge. You can see if this has been happening in your messages.
What causes loss of airtime on Vodacom?
That’s how to stop airtime from disappearing on Vodacom in South Africa. But what causes airtime to disappear in the first place? If you go around, you will come across many people who complain that they have been losing their Vodacom airtime without making any calls. So, what cause this?
WASP Services
The biggest culprit are what are referred to as WASP services. These are services to which many people subscribe without really being aware that they are going to end up losing airtime. Perhaps you saw an ad saying you were going to receive a joke a day.
Well, that’s all very well, but the joke is on you if you thought the service was going to be provided for free. Other subscription services include horoscopes, news and weather updates, downloads and much more. To be frank, most of these services are not necessary.
But if you subscribe, you will have to pay a fee either per month or per day or per week. It depends on the nature of the service. So that’s a huge problem if you were only looking to check out a service. Maybe you were not being serious.
But now that airtime is running away from your phone like nobody’s business, you start blaming Vodacom. Well, it’s not really their problem. The problem is with you jumping in blind. Anyway, hopefully this article has taught you how to prevent airtime from disappearing on Vodacom.
Maybe someone is stealing your airtime
This is another thing to which we have already alluded at the top. You could be losing airtime because a naughty someone close to you has been transferring it to their own phone without your knowledge. Maybe it’s your mother, father, brother, sister or even wife or husband.
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