Recent content by mulletman87

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    Telkom Fibre Requiring Continuous Password Resets

    Hi all, Just had an "interesting" discussion with our lovely customer facing reps at Telkom. She basically said: "Whenever the internet dies and from their side they can see "line is synchronising but there are no active sessions, they have to do a password reset". Questions about why a...
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    iMessage activation issue - Telkom

    UPDATE: I just updated to iOS 14, and changed my iMessage to use my phone number. It immediately failed as usual. I loaded R50, and although I had done this before, this time around it stuck on "activating iMessage" in settings. I left it like that for a few hours, then turned off my phone for...
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    iMessage activation issue - Telkom

    Hmm this is interesting, I thought that the freeme might have been the issue, but since I just loaded it once off (i.e. I am not on contract), I wonder if I have to ask them to somehow remove any trace of it from my number. I am able to load airtime via the self-portal, so my situation is...
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    iMessage activation issue - Telkom

    Question, did you do anything while waiting? I notice that if activation for the mobile number fails, it defaults to your iCloud email address. Were you using that and then suddenly it activated on your number? Or was it just a case of waiting for a long time, then trying to switch it to your...
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    iMessage activation issue - Telkom

    So my wife's iPhone 8 just did the same thing (activated out the blue). However, my iPhone X is still having issues, but might have been because I kept trying to fix it. From this, I reckon that Telkom has to manually activate it on their side, and a tech probably does it every couple weeks in...
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    iMessage activation issue - Telkom

    Please share this thread with Telkom on Twitter, I have already done this but it needs more attention. Trying to explain this issue from scratch is a nightmare, and I have both an iPhone X and iPhone 8 that used to work perfectly on MTN, but after porting to Telkom, both refuse to activate iMessage.
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