It’s been a while since I updated my “Buying Airtime Calculator” calculator (Feb 2009), so I decided to do another Bing search (anyone noticed that I’m avoiding Google?). Truth-be-told, I was spurred to update the calculator after I saw a Tweet from @HifiCorp: “Now you can talk for more while paying less with our discount prepaid airtime offers! http://bit.ly/l2Q3Zz”. The link takes you to a very large pdf file – I’ve snipped the great pricing: 
Or in tabular form from the calculator here:
| CreditCard | Date | Airtime Value | Actual Cost | Discount | ||
| Vodacom | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 5.00 | 4.70 | 6.00% |
| Vodacom | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 12.00 | 10.90 | 9.17% |
| Vodacom | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 29.00 | 26.90 | 7.24% |
| Vodacom | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 55.00 | 49.90 | 9.27% |
| Vodacom | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 110.00 | 99.90 | 9.18% |
| MTN | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 5.00 | 4.60 | 8.00% |
| MTN | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 10.00 | 9.30 | 7.00% |
| MTN | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 15.00 | 13.90 | 7.33% |
| MTN | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 30.00 | 28.50 | 5.00% |
| CellC | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 5.00 | 4.60 | 8.00% |
| CellC | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 10.00 | 9.30 | 7.00% |
| CellC | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 25.00 | 22.70 | 9.20% |
| CellC | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 35.00 | 30.80 | 12.00% |
| CellC | HiFiCorp | Yes | Jun-11 | 50.00 | 45.50 | 9.00% |
Download the updated calculator which also lists the outlets that I could find here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/l6bq6ioa44wwl7q/BuyingAirtimeCalculatorJune2011.xls
Anyone notice that they don’t list the new provider 8ta? Do they even sell 8ta airtime?
That’s not just a question “out of the blue”… I’m getting suspicious about why GoogleAdsense suspended my account almost immediately after I posted this article on 8ta’s “special”: ‘I knew there had to be a catch with that 8ta deal for a Blackberry for R90 per month.... with free calls to a landline number’.
8ta was an advertiser on my blog – in fact the questions that I received were from readers asking about “my ad” on “my blog site”.
Since Google Adsense will not tell me the reason(s) for the suspension I will continue to speculate – and believe that this is the reason.
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