On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:33 AM, James Muendo <
timrick@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dude,
>
> Use
wap.safaricom.com/bundles
>
> You have to have some airtime in your sim to access the service.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> --
> James Muendo
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Okechukwu <
okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is it just me or anyone experiences the headaches of buying, checking,
>> & managing data bundles on Safaricom on the iPad.
>>
>> For one, getting the website
www.safaricom.com/bundles to detect the
>> iPad is a pain - for some time, I only get the message that they are
>> unable to detect my modem number. After talking to the care team on
>> twitter, at first they were clueless and one even had the audacity to
>> ask me to remove my battery and return it back - SMH. Then at long
>> last, I was given very good instructions, add an APN: Safaricom with
>> Username/Password: saf. And then make sure you take your device to
>> Airplane mode if the site doesn't detect it - This worked perfectly,
>> now my device is detected. And I managed once to load a 1.5Gb bundle
>> since I wanted to stay for as long as possible to go through this.
>>
>> I did a skype video session which lasted more than an hour, the
>> quality of both video & voice was perfect, and I had no regrets even
>> with the huge consumption of the bundle. Now, I needed to do another
>> session today and just checking how much bundle I have remaining was a
>> pain. The device & number is detected perfectly, but the website stays
>> stuck on 'Wait while we retrieve your details' It has been retrieving
>> my details since 6:30am till now about 9:45am - Got tired and had to
>> remove SIm card and buy the bundle on my phone before returning it to
>> the iPad.
>>
>> I just cannot live with this - My question is, is there a provider who
>> has a better way of bundles being managed on the iPad? I dont care
>> even if the speed crawl, but at leaste I will be in peace with the
>> process! if none, do I really have to live with this? what is the
>> alternative since am not into the daily auto-renewal bundles on the
>> iPad.
>>
>> frustrated ./Ok3ch
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