A long time ago I was given a 2Gb data add by Smarty as a 'sorry' for a mess-up.
I generally don't use much data via mobile as I am often in places with wifi; the data add on hardly went down and equally I rarely used much data from my monthly plans.
Recently, the add on started to show less left in it and I queried why data used was not primarily coming from my monthly plan.
I was told that a system change in Aug. 2024 meant that any complimentary data add on would be used before data from a monthly plan.
I thought that was a fair explanation and had no problem with it.
This month, I had reason to use a fair bit of mobile data as I had a short broadband outage during a long Zoom meeting of some importance. After that, I noticed that the data add on had gone down but had not been used up, however my plan data had also been used.
I asked the Support Team how come ALL of the data add on was not used up before the data was taken from my plan. I have not been able to get a proper response (e.g. "It takes a few hours to catch up on the system" - not so - or "What is wrong with your plan?" - nothing!)
I am beginning to appreciate the problems that many people report on here when they deal with Smarty Support via web chat and that is a great pity because I often suggest that as a wy forward.
It does indeed appear that some of staff there do not fully understand written English - I believe that I write quite clearly, but any of you are welcome too tell me otherwise if that's an honestly held opinion.
Can anyone shed any light on this issue please? Just to summarise: Should a free data on be completely used before data is 'spent' from a monthly plan?
@YulianK - can you assist please?
