Mobile Networks in Nigeria can be cunning – They’ve found ways to make us automatically re-subscribe for data at the expiry of your plan, sometimes without warning. It helps if you always resubscribe and cannot remember the correct codes to dial but in most cases, people are shocked when an entire 500, 1500 or more is automatically deducted without prior notice.
Yes, it’s true that Successful data subscription SMS sent to customers contains information about how to turn off Automatic resubscription, but most of people don’t bother reading or understanding the SMS, until the Magical data disappearance starts happening.
With the high number of complaints about disappearing of credit, you’d think the mobile networks would listen and disable automatic data renewal, but no – It’s Good Business for them!
In this post we’ll show you how to disable Automatic data subscription on Android, USB modem subscriptions for Airtel, MTN, Glo and 9mobile.
We have written a different post here >> to show how to stop auto renewal or blackberry subscription
Please Note that your current data subscription will NOT be disabled by this.
STOP AUTO-RENEWAL ON 9MOBILE
9mobile Subscribers can cancel automatic data renewal by sending and an SMS with the word “STOP” to 229.
You will receive an SMS that confirms auto renewal has been disabled.
“Dear Customer, You have successfully opted out of automatic data renewal“
STOP AUTO-RENEWAL ON AIRTEL
Airtel Subcribers should send and SMS “stopautorenew” to 440
STOP AUTO-RENEWAL ON GLO
GLO users, text CANCEL to 127 to disable Autorenewal
STOP AUTO-RENEWAL ON MTN
MTN is nice enough to send a notification before your data expires.
“Please note that your **MB plan will be renewed and N**** Deducted from your account,” Text NO to 131 to cancel automatic re-subscription.
You can also SMS NO*** to 131. The *** should represent the code you used to subscribe.
Example, i subscribe *104# MTN plan. To stop auto-renewal, SMS NO104 to 131.
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Great, now you don’t have to call customer care and yell, because they never refund.
You can always refer to these posts to see Data subscription codes and prices for MTN, Airtel, 9mobile and Glo.
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