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    Hi Neville,

    Did you ever find a solution to your problem?

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    Quote Originally Posted by KousZA View Post
    Hi Neville,

    Did you ever find a solution to your problem?
    Unfortunately not yet.
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    I have a Solution

    I had exactly the same problem and finally found a solution. One would think that in today's world of technology where its extremely easy to buy data direct online, from anywhere in the world (Prepaid24.co.za for example) and have it immediately loaded directly to the SIMM, wherever the SIMM may be located, one would assume it should be possible to login to an account to see what the current usage is, but astoundingly this appears not be an available option.

    In our situation my family has a Huawei 3G router installed at a holiday home some 200Km away (as Murphy would have it I am closest). There are no adsl landlines available and MTN Edge is the best we get. Asking a non tech savvy guest to extract a SIMM card from a Huawei router, insert it into a phone and then go through the USSD steps just to work out whether you actually have data or not would be absurdly funny, if it weren't horribly true.

    The solution I found is to use Afrihost. You can provide them with your MTN SIMM card details and then from there use the Client Zone to track the data. You will obviously need to buy your data from Afrihost to be able to track it, but their rates are pretty good. You will also need (VERY IMPORTANT) to buy some airtime (say R10.00) at least once every 89 days (90 days of inactivity and MTN expires the SIMM).

    Hope this helps :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by handmadeza View Post
    You will also need (VERY IMPORTANT) to buy some airtime (say R10.00) at least once every 89 days (90 days of inactivity and MTN expires the SIMM).
    Hope this helps :-)
    Please check this out, my experience has been that the R10 vouchers expire on 20 days from date of enabling, on all the networks. Purchasing a R29 or R30 depending on the network, gives you a 89 day window before expiring. Ensure that the SIM is used at least once every 89 days to maintain the SIM. Keeping a SIM number alive has infrastructure allocated to it, and the R10 a month is like the line rental if you want to call it that. This information is not mentioned to users, but it is active.
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    Thank you for this. Very good to know. My info was from the local MTN store, which I must assume is incorrect.

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    There is an MTN app you can download for smartphones which shows it. It took me a long time to discover this.
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    In case someone still wants a solution to the questions up to 2016 on how to get data available from MTN for prepaid SIM in router :
    If you are within WiFi reach of the router:
    1) Use a smartphone to connect via WiFi to the router
    2) Install an app to be able to send USSD code - I use "emDial" (free app) on a Windows Lumia phone
    3) Use emDial (or equivalent) to send USSD code - for MTN *141*1# , wait for MTN response and then reply with "2" to get list of data types and expiry dates.
    Hope it helps!

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    How come purchased data/airtime can expire? is it going off or something like that? I never solved that miracle.
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