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Bend over for the mobile networks

Started by pauljacobson · 10 months ago

I was reading an article on MyBroadband this morning about how the three main mobile networks in South Africa are exploiting the vagaries of their mobile data products and how those products are billed at the expense of their customers. I have complained about Telkom’s profiteering in t ... Continue reading »

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Melissa
10 months ago

I've got to agree with you Paul and I think in Telkom's defence (never thought I'd ever type that) their system of allowing you to monitor your ADSL usage via the website in real time is really awesome. With regards mobile there are far too many people who are not aware of the high data charges once they cross the usage threshold and then they feel the pain (sans vaseline) when they are hit with a massive bill.
Surely in this day and age an online monitoring system for mobile data isn't too much to ask?

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JC
10 months ago

Bullshit.

You can go to www.vodacom4me.co.za click on "My Account" and then "Account info", and then you will see your remaining download bundle.

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Telkom ADSL Dude
10 months ago

Check out the price of an SMS and the average size in kb, then compare it to what you would pay for the same amount of data via gprs. Perhaps the tech differs but can it be that much?

Just wait till Google sticks out its head in SA, things are going to change drastically.

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