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    MTN launches Pi mobile and Home Internet plans

    MVNOs are basically a way to wireless carriers to sell excess capacity and MVNO lines are almost always deprioritized. This may or may not be problem depending on how congested your local towers are.
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    Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 6

    Did a cable or something break? Struggling to load things internationally on cool ideas and my vodacom sim card and it would seem I'm not the only one.
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    How the chartered flight for Afrikaner refugees to the United States was approved

    The US has a fairly decent argument to make here. The US Peace Corps for instance has sent about 2000 volunteers to South Africa and it's always been DHA's policy with them that it's fine in some cases under a 90 day exemption visa, and the stipend they receive to cover expenses is also never a...
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    Reverse emigration trend hitting South Africans living in England, Canada and Australia

    This article was definitely questionable because I don't understand how you can draw a conclusion that there is a "reverse immigration trend" based off data from of a single private company that provides services to a very small and miniscule sample of expats. Most employers would never allow...
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    Cloudflare went down

    Oddly my sites are up but seems like everything else using cloudflare is down.
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    Fake 5G routers still rife on major online marketplaces in South Africa

    ICASA has so much smoke if you start a business importing apple products that weren't sourced from Core Group, but when it comes to actual unlicensed, misleading and illegal devices they are so slow to act.
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    Cloudflare down: Company blames 'unusual' spike in traffic before outage errors

    I wish i could agree with you, but no one will be fired for choosing cloudflare, just like no one was likely fired for the us-east outage with Amazon. We've just entered a weird era where "cyber weather" events that can knock significant chunks of the internet offline are normal now.
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    Cloudflare went down

    Are we back?
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    Cloudflare went down

    My domain is registered with cloudflare so I couldn't even switch to an alternative DNS.
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    Game demands ID and proof of address for smartphone purchases

    This has been this case across retailers and carriers for some years now. The cheap phones you find being sold at these places are locked to a carrier and the "system" requires them to be sold with a sim swap or new sim card. These phones are subsidized and sold at a loss and the idea is to...
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    Telkom is migrating its last DSL customers to newer technologies

    i actually wrote a ublock filter that filters out all of the slop mybroadband.co.za##div>.structItem-title>a:has-text(/dstv|multichoice|irdeto|good news|bad news|makate|vodacom|please call me|license|passport/i):upward(3)
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    Vodacom's revised earnings estimates reveal potential Makate payout

    Their former CEO is the one who mainly stuffed up this case. He wrote a book lying claiming to be the one that invented it and also went to court and lied about it. https://www.news24.com/business/court-slams-execs-false-please-call-me-story-20160426 This entire thing was something that could...
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    Betway rejects online gambling ban in South Africa

    Why is government so quiet and mum about gambling in SA? We saw during covid that the government has all sorts of power to restrict and outright ban things like buying cigarettes, hot food, alcohol, sandals, etc.
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    Sean Summers says ads for online gambling should be banned

    It's way too late to ban gambling ads. Gambling has already hit a critical mass in SA and the goal of most companies pushing gambling ads is to poach customers away from other gambling platforms, rather than recruiting people who have never gambled before. The ads could all disappear and people...
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    UK-based neobank, Revolut, which plans to launch in South Africa, has endured several controversies in recent years

    Revolut could definitely disrupt things in SA given how archaic and greedy banks in SA are. The problem though is that bankservafrica, which facilitates card payments, efts, etc, is owned by the big 4/5 banks in SA and they have the pricing rigged so that outsiders cannot come in and disrupt...
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