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  1. Johand

    Icasa has published amendments to South Africa's Call Termination Regulations

    Does it still matter? I mean 99% of calls seem to be spammers. Maybe make it more expensive for them?
  3. Johand

    We can rent an apartment across the road and pay for 1Gbps FTTH for less than 1Gbps "business fibre"

    Starlink is not meant for high density deployment. They are quite clear on that.
  4. Johand

    HURU Credit Report Survey 2024 – Win R3,000

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  5. Johand

    Credit card users in SA complaining about fraudulent Facebook transactions

    Interesting if it is toll roads. It is the only place in the past two months where I had to use my physical card instead of my phones tap to pay. For the life of me I don't understand why SANRAL doesn't allow tap-to-pay debit cards or allowing tap-to-pay using your phone.
  6. Johand

    Win R3,000 Cash - Take the 2024 Broadband Market Survey

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  7. Johand

    Information Regulator receives complaint about Truecaller

    Is that you "This is an important consumer announcement" - guy?
  8. Johand

    How excited are you for Black Friday this year?

    Well Black Friday doesn't work anymore because any good deals are drowned out by crap deals advertised as good deals. I don't have time to hunt for the gem between all the excrement.
  9. Johand

    Potential Airbnb regulations could cause hosts to consider leaving the market

    No not really. The problem with the internet is it was designed to decentralise but instead is leading to massive concentration. In the olden days people would rent out property. But we can see from the Airbnb statistics that while it started out as "everybody can now do it" is turning into a...
  10. Johand

    Spreadsheets and disasters

    Haha. People that think Google Sheet is anywhere close to Excel usually only makes short grocery lists :ROFL:
  11. Johand

    Potential Airbnb regulations could cause hosts to consider leaving the market

    Airbnb is mostly the hospitality industry with a different mask. The people letting out a spare room is the minority these days. BTW hotel chains are pretty much the same as Airbnb - the chain makes the connection with the client but hotel property is normally not owned or managed by the hotel...
  12. Johand

    How Amazon South Africa sellers can affordably enter foreign markets

    I have a simple rule. I am ignoring Amazon.co.za until they actually start selling their own Kindle in their own store. The fact that you can buy a Kindle on Takealot and not Amazon is good indicator that the local operations are mostly crap-ware third-party sellers.
  13. Johand

    Potential Airbnb regulations could cause hosts to consider leaving the market

    If people are running hotels then they need to be regulated like hotels. Renting out a spare room is a different thing than buying multiple properties for the only purpose of short-term rentals.
  14. Johand

    The rollout of new fibre connections has slowed to a crawl in South Africa

    Not everybody is connected? Just the richer areas? Love or hate the Vuma/Voda deal the big issue is it took *3 years* before rejection . If it only took a year then Vuma could have moved on and make other plans.
  15. Johand

    Has someone ever broken into your home?

    Twice when I used to live in Obz in Cape Town, once when living in Rondebosch. Zero times since I moved to the other side of the boerewors gordyn and replaced my CA number plate with a CY plate. :ROFL:
  16. Johand

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  18. Johand

    Cape Town says additional metering costs for bidirectional meters out of its control

    More BS from CoCT. Put the new meter where my old meter was. Which wasn't on the boundary wall. Or outside th erf. I get the idea the policy makers want to make it happen but the actual electricity department is fighting this tooth and nail with every excuse in the book.
  19. Johand

    Rain says it is aware of demand for GeForce Now

    3.6 m minutes sounds like a lot. But considering that is just about 7 years of play time in a year. Which means that less than a 100 players could have easily clocked up the time. Not that impressive....
  20. Johand

    Capitec's big IT edge

    I must protest - a lot of legacy IT is about legacy *business* and IT is just one symptom. The number of systems that needs to be maintained to support legacy contracts and accounts can be nuts. Capitec's IT system cost is lower because they don't have the range of different products and...
  21. Johand

    Ramokgopa meets with small nuclear reactor company X-energy

    Being the guinea piggies for SMR ain't a good idea. Let people with money fund the experiments. Once SMRs are commercially proven we can take a look at it. The amount of smoke and mirrors vs actual delivery on SMRs are freakin amazing. If they are so great where are they operating at scale? Nowhere.
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