| Melita Mobile & Vodafone now giving full topup value
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Saturday, 26 September 2009
For the last few years, whenever you topped-up a prepaid mobile subscription, you didn't get the full value of your topup. In fact, out of a €10 top up, you only got €9.46. The excuse from the mobile operators was that this was because of the 3% government levy on mobile phone usage that was introduced a few years back, and the increase in VAT from 15% to 18%. However, this complicated the way phone usage costs are calculated, because the advertised rates weren't true at all, because you had to add around 5.7% to that price.
In the last 2 weeks, however, Melita Mobile removed this service charge, and started giving the full value on all topups. A few days later, Vodafone complied. No news has come from GO as whether they will remove this charge. One thing's for sure, however - GO seem to be lagging behind.
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| Last Updated ( Saturday, 26 September 2009 ) |
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