BlackBerry abuse solution in the works

jannievanzyl said:
They told us.
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That's like if the cops catch you with drugs, "I don't know how it got there, I wasn't using it. Honest"
(I'm assuming the ones that told you are the ones you called after they reached a few hundred gigs)
 
How do these "abusers" get fast enough speeds to abuse? How do they get around the consequences of their own abuse?

When I was on BIS I struggled to even load a website.
 
burn said:
When I was on BIS I struggled to even load a website.
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I get good browsing speeds - good enough in fact that I rarely have to even enable 3g and just rely on edge.
 
I assume a max cap cannot be added? Like 50GB, or is this against RIM's policy? I mean, if every ISP in SA can do it for their "unlimited" bandwidth, why not in this case?
 
So will people who occasionally download 200-300mb of training/presentation movies a month on the road for work purposes be nailed?
 
It is believed that one possible solution will involve a network point in South Africa which will give the operators the ability to see what is happening in the BlackBerry network and impose rules on certain traffic types.
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I'm curious as to know how legal that is.

Obviously the users are braking the TOS by torrenting over BIS. Can one legally use something like SSTP over BIS or packet inspection avoidance to stop your provider from "looking" at what you are doing ?
 
snobee said:
I assume a max cap cannot be added? Like 50GB, or is this against RIM's policy? I mean, if every ISP in SA can do it for their "unlimited" bandwidth, why not in this case?
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It can be done and no one would complain but vodacom dont want to do a realistic cap like their overseas counterparts(around 5gb) instead they wanna be greedy and cap it to 100mb LMAO!:D Typical SA network attitude.

I understand that if they advertise a 5gb cap then people will believe they entitled to the full 5gb and even previous non users will start using it but surely if you do it quietly then no one will really know and if someone hits 5gb cap then hey they dont really have a right to complain because they've already used up more than is needed.

Oh in the U.S you have two options,a lower rate BIS with a 5GB cap and a pure unlimited account that costs around R200 a month.......so can someone tell me why our networks cant implement that?

Jannie?
 
snobee said:
I assume a max cap cannot be added? Like 50GB, or is this against RIM's policy? I mean, if every ISP in SA can do it for their "unlimited" bandwidth, why not in this case?
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A few months ago Vodacom had a possible solution with a FUP but they dropped the ball. Instead of setting a generous threshold of say 5 or even 10gb that would have snipped any abuser in the bud, without running the risk of snagging a legitimate user, they wanted to set it at some ridiculous limit (iirc 100mb?).
 
I think in the end they will do the same as Mweb. While it is possible, in theory, for me to pull 1.3TB a month I only manage 300~500GB and the reason for that is shaping. What they will do with BIS is throttle it so that even if you do flatline it you will not be able to do more than a GB a month. If I look at some of the speeds people claim/complain to get on BB then I'd say they already implemented this ;)
 
With the current speeds we're getting I'd like to know who exactly is even able to abuse the system.
Maybe someone has fitted a turbo to his BB and has somehow managed to bypass all the the throttling.
This is just an excuse to throttle everyone to 100mb/month.
 
Why don't Vodacom implement the throttling they planned September - albeit with a higher limit?

Surely if they implement something that 98% of users won't ever hit - it'll only effect the 2% of abusers? I know that at the time 100MB was deemed more than what most use - but if this was 500MB then surely we'd all be happy?
 
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