The yellow pages, that big ass directory you have lying at home. Useful for standing on when you need to get that hard to reach glass plate from the cupboard. They have digitized, bringing an end to the endless flipping of the those yellowed pages.
You know what really gets to me? Waiting on people to answer their phones and also being constantly forwarded and put on hold. That terrible elevator music costs me moola. Not cool. With the Yellowpages you can save on 5 calls per day. May not seem like a lot. But if yo use the service to call the people you are most likely going to have to wait on, you will end up saving some mega moola.
Here is how to do it:
go to www.yellowpages.co.za
Find the business you want to call
Click call
You get 5 free calls per day for each of the unique numbers you have. It makes the stress of calling up governement offices/ businesses that much less.
Bottom Line: Use the service. A saving of about R50 a day makes a whole lot of sense. Definitely recommended
#DuckOff
Limitless/ Unlimited/ Straight Up/ Skype Subscription. Which one is the best for me?
With the different product offerings its easy to feel a little lost when deciding which contract to take out, here is Cool Ducks take on the matter.
- Vodacom Red for R1,999 per month: Limitless calls, Limitless SMSs and 1.5GB of data (The data and the free sms's being the big positive in this deal but surely 1.5 gigs does not cost R700?). And who still sends sms's? Not many people.
- Telkom Mobile Unlimited Voice for R1,199 per month: Unlimited calls, No SMSs, No data. (Remember its only 100 unique numbers for the month and your call gets billed after 1 hour. So drop the phone and call again :)
- Cell C- Straight Up Infinity, for
R999/month on a 24-month contract. The Catch: the rate
applies only to on-network calls (ie calls to only the Cell C company). All other calls are billed at a rate of 99 cents per minute.
- Skype contract: This duck took out one of these, for a cost of R147 a month, I get unlimited calls to landline numbers. Unfortunately skype does not have unlimited calls, released for mobile as yet. Their costs for mobile calls (prepaid system) are comparitive to our current mobile rates, so I would not really opt in for that especially since the call quality of skype can be unpredictable, depending on your location. For R147 though, I normally get the job done. And make most of my business calls to landline and call all my family on their landline numbers. I have definitely saved some dough through this method. Another big positive about the Skype subsciption is that you can opt out at any time. So if you are not going to use the deal during exam months, then unsubscribe. Bear in mind though that the average data cost for a Skype call sits at a figure of about R5. So making calls from an unlimited data source helps a lot.
- It boild down to your needs- just read through the fine print and make a decision depending on the needs of yourself and/ or your business.
Here are some of the funny Vodacom responses to Telkom's 'Limitless' adverts. I just love ad-wars.
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