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    Eskom to charge solar users in South Africa to remain connected to the grid

    Not without SLA uptime in place with penalties for no supply. You cannot keep the public hostage for working around a problem that you created.
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    Eskom criticises Nersa's plan to charge solar users 5x-10x higher prices than mines

    There they go again. The solar sector is helping our dwindling economy, created thousands of job and entrepreneurs. No you want to shut this down? With those electricity prices, it wont be economical anyway to get solar, so the Solar industry will take a massive knock. PS Solar users are helping...
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    SABC Bill published - Icasa to set regulations on if DStv must collect TV licences for the SABC

    Maybe I will renew my dog license and bicycle license at the same time, seeing it was last required in 1987... Any how, this reaks of dictatorship and unconstitutional. What needs to happen is to allocate VAT income from TV sales, radio sales and ISP's- to SABC, and not absorb that VAT income...
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    Are you interested in Starlink?

    Only if I was living somewhere that had no fiber. Fiber still has less latency
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    The best VPNs you can use for streaming

    SO after reading this article, I purchased 3 years of Cyberghost VPN. Unfortunately, amazon Prime Video now tells me I am using a VPN server, even though the one I am selecting is optimized for Prime Video. Thi happens on PC and on android boxes. Any articles on how to resolve this?
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    Test your broadband speed and win R5,000 cash

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    Black Friday 2019 Giveaway - Win great prizes

    This Samsung TV from Digital experience! R29,995.00 list price, now R19,995.00 https://www.digitalexperience.co.za/product/samsung-55-q80r-qled-smart-4k-uhd-tv-qa55q80/?utm_source=my-broadband-promo&utm_medium=bf-promo-mbb&utm_campaign=bf-QA55Q80-my-broadband
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    What is the best car you have ever owned?

    I have 2: 2005 Ford Bantam. had it since new and in daily use. 230000km on the clock. Then this beaut of a Land Cruiser. 1989 model. 440000km. It was driven to Switzerland by the previous owner, and we use it for our Camping and self drive safaris. Fully kitted and a bed in the back
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    Telkom is killing itself

    NEVER, EVER IN MY LIFE AGAIN. That is what I tell their telesales operators every time they try to flog me another Telkom product. So what happens to the people who were wrongfully blacklisted?
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    Test your broadband speed, rate your ISP, and win prizes worth R5,000

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    New South African tax on Netflix and Internet services

    Africa gonna Africa. Good luck watching Netflix without electricity... Load shedding just kicked in again. F**k Eskom
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    New South African tax on Netflix and Internet services

    I get why they want to do this, as this money is exiting our Country, BUT: then my item I buy on Amazon must not be pulled over at customs to be VATed again! The funny thing is, all these cloud companies can simply stop providing services in SA. it is only a small part of SA population...
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    Vodacom CEO’s warning to Rain

    Ja - Vodacom talking from experience. Even cell C did this. when they launched 3G way back. It was fun for the early adopters. 6 months later it was as bad as the rest.
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    WANTED: Broadband with great upload speeds, unshaped, wide coverage in Gauteng

    Hi Im looking for Broadband with great upload speeds, unshaped, with wide coverage in Gauteng. It will be used mostly for upload of real-time data, locations may vary. Any suggestions? Tried Yahclick / yahsat, but they wont teach me how to tune my own dish every time I change location...
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    Stable, MOBILE broadband to for video upload streaming?

    Hi I do video streaming, but sometimes I am required to do this from a remote location where, obviously I cannot be sure of which mobile broadband provider works best IF there is connectivity AT ALL. My ideal solution is satellite uplink, but who is the best provider, and what upload...
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