Cell C BlackBerry abusers identified

What I don't understand is why it's taken this long to implement a system to throttle abusers? Surely bandwidth management is the cornerstone of any ISP?
 
And yet, normal users like my wife will get a bill over and above the BIS charge for data usage even though she only uses facebook, whatsapp and email and not a heavy user at all, no youtube or downloading, niks nada zip. FUuuuu BIS !
 
Not a blackberry user, but I guess this is the reason they want to do away with uncapped
 
Hopefully this will improve their data network a bit - less than 1Mbps is not what I'd expect from HSDPA with full signal.
 
Chunkyfeather said:
And yet, normal users like my wife will get a bill over and above the BIS charge for data usage even though she only uses facebook, whatsapp and email and not a heavy user at all, no youtube or downloading, niks nada zip. FUuuuu BIS !
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Is she streaming porn? that gets charged for ;)
 
Doing this at this stage seems kind of futile.

Luckily for the providers, BIS will slowly die as the new handsets go out and South Africa catches up with global trends.
 
About time CellC... this is one of the big problems with the BIS model... there's aways a small percentage stuffing it up for the other users! Hopefully throttling these shmucks will have a positive effect on CellC's network performance!
 
Chunkyfeather said:
And yet, normal users like my wife will get a bill over and above the BIS charge for data usage even though she only uses facebook, whatsapp and email and not a heavy user at all, no youtube or downloading, niks nada zip. FUuuuu BIS !
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You need to query it cause clearly something is not right. Maybe your BIS is not activated?
 
36 Gb a month is really not that much. Granted they should not be using the Blackberry network for it, but still... it's really not a lot.
 
F1 Fan said:
Not a blackberry user, but I guess this is the reason they want to do away with uncapped
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The few that killed the goose that laid the golden egg. And like 'deweyzeph' said, where was the ISP in tackling these abusers before? Completely idiotic on both counts.
 
Garyvdh said:
36 Gb a month is really not that much. Granted they should not be using the Blackberry network for it, but still... it's really not a lot.
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Context: For a BB thats an insane amount of data, more than you'll ever need for social networks, bbm, email, browsing, excluding downloading anything but email attachments. Actually, for any phone that's more data than most users will ever use in a month, how do you rack that up on a phone?
 
Garyvdh said:
36 Gb a month is really not that much. Granted they should not be using the Blackberry network for it, but still... it's really not a lot.
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It is a truck load over a mobile network with astronomical contention ratios. No problem over ADSL/Fibre.
 
The best solution would be a soft-cap after a certain amount of gigabytes. Most BB users wouldn't even notice if their service was running at 256kbit or 384kbit, but that's slow enough to chase the leechers away.
 
That data wasn't used on the BB itself... Google these Nigerian methods to use the blackberry.net APN via a VPN to get Internet.
 
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