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Sorry, not trying to point a finger at Openweb here, these kind of uncapped accounts are what we need and I hope more will become available soon in the market. The last comment about "catch" as if it is too good to be true, just hit a nerve with me about how weak we have been as consumers and knowing what we are supposed to be getting for the money we pay.
True ADSL should be uncapped. Especially at the prices we are paying here in ZA.
It is a sign of how we have become used to poor and inadeqaute service when an offer like this to have 384kbps ADSL for R800, is seen as being so good that is has to involve some "catch" or "gotcha" somewhere.
We get so excited that we got a few gigs over our cap limit, every month people compare the handfuls of Gbs they managed to download before they got capped. And I also notice people using words like they "abused" the network, or "managed to rape Telkom" when they got their 8 or 10Gb a month off their 3gb cap accounts.
I am sure Telkom must be enjoying reading that, seeing how we are feeling guilty about getting the few gigabytes that they already *owe* us anyway, if they were interested in giving us an internationally comparable ADSL service.
We, the customers, are the only ones that have been "abused" and "raped".
People overseas laugh at our ADSL speeds, and the exorbitant ADSL rates we pay.
But this is nothing new to anyone here.
So please, lets not call this so good that there must be some catch. R800 is a lot of money and of course you still need to pay additional connection charges as well to Telkom. R1000 a month for 384 ADSL uncapped?...what a steal
Offers like these from Openweb are great and perhaps are the first steps in trying to get us to have ADSL service remotely on par with the rest of the developing world, let alone the developed world.
Sorry, I guess I'm sick to bits (pun intended) of watching my megabytes everyday and worrying about going to a website that may have a flash content or have a 800k jpg, because I may go over my Telkomheid enforced 3gb cap limit before the end of the month etc.
/end rant
Sorry, not trying to point a finger at Openweb here, these kind of uncapped accounts are what we need and I hope more will become available soon in the market. The last comment about "catch" as if it is too good to be true, just hit a nerve with me about how weak we have been as consumers and knowing what we are supposed to be getting for the money we pay.
True ADSL should be uncapped. Especially at the prices we are paying here in ZA.
It is a sign of how we have become used to poor and inadeqaute service when an offer like this to have 384kbps ADSL for R800, is seen as being so good that is has to involve some "catch" or "gotcha" somewhere.
We get so excited that we got a few gigs over our cap limit, every month people compare the handfuls of Gbs they managed to download before they got capped. And I also notice people using words like they "abused" the network, or "managed to rape Telkom" when they got their 8 or 10Gb a month off their 3gb cap accounts.
I am sure Telkom must be enjoying reading that, seeing how we are feeling guilty about getting the few gigabytes that they already *owe* us anyway, if they were interested in giving us an internationally comparable ADSL service.
We, the customers, are the only ones that have been "abused" and "raped".
People overseas laugh at our ADSL speeds, and the exorbitant ADSL rates we pay.
But this is nothing new to anyone here.
So please, lets not call this so good that there must be some catch. R800 is a lot of money and of course you still need to pay additional connection charges as well to Telkom. R1000 a month for 384 ADSL uncapped?...what a steal
Offers like these from Openweb are great and perhaps are the first steps in trying to get us to have ADSL service remotely on par with the rest of the developing world, let alone the developed world.
Sorry, I guess I'm sick to bits (pun intended) of watching my megabytes everyday and worrying about going to a website that may have a flash content or have a 800k jpg, because I may go over my Telkomheid enforced 3gb cap limit before the end of the month etc.
/end rant
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