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Cell number recycling headache in South Africa | SA News

6 July 2025 by Guest


Mobile number recycling and SMS store-and-forward mechanisms can result in a nasty shock for South African cellular customers, as a MyBroadband reader recently experienced.

The subscriber informed us of their experience where they signed up for MTN’s Shesh@600 product and started receiving SMS messages stating they’d signed up for various daily subscriptions.

They initially suspected something reminiscent of the Telkom vulnerability in 2023 that enabled wireless application service providers (WASPs) to subscribe…

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  1. Ella Of Light

    18 September 2026 at 7:37 pm

    Fun South African Fact: Almost 80% of South Africa’s population is Christian

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    8 September 2026 at 5:21 pm

    Why is gambling banned in South Africa?

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