Cell C BlackBerry abusers identified

elvis_presley said:
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.
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Management is more than most cell providers can... um... manage.
 
mcastudios said:
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?
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AlmightyBender said:
It is a truck load over a mobile network with astronomical contention ratios. No problem over ADSL/Fibre.
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"Granted they should not be using the Blackberry network for it"
 
I'm sure this should be managed by RIM since the traffic goes over their network...
Rather than each SP implementing solutions costing millions they could have capped it on their side?

mmm
 
elvis_presley said:
MTN do it right now on their uncapped products, and their systems leave a lot to be desired. I'm on their 3GB "uncapped" product right now. Works like a charm!
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You use MTN? I hope you don't bank with Absa too? :p
 
drukkie said:
I'm sure this should be managed by RIM since the traffic goes over their network...
Rather than each SP implementing solutions costing millions they could have capped it on their side?

mmm
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Their network? Remind me how the traffic is routed again... and how a couple of South African companies can influence their global traffic management?
 
ag, that only works out to 1.1gb per day per user...

5.4*1024 = 5529.6 GB
5529.6 / 150 user = 36,8 gb per user per month
36,8 / 31 day = 1.18GB per day per user

not that much at all. however, for internet browsing, that is a lot....

Just imagine how many REAL people you could have met if you weren't spending so much time on your phone...
 
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Being a blackberry abuser myself and downloading between 1 and 5gigs of data a day and this is not porn (seen one porn then you have seen it all) i must say that i left cellc months ago. There speeds are crap. They are taking on far to many subscribers and can not keep up with demand and now they blaming the blackberry abusers. Why is it that people every where are having issues with this network. The networks are losing money and the funny thing is this, the data we down loading comes through a different portal (BB servers).

The networks are just P-OFF cause they cant make money out of it. Are you aware that 99% of all blackberries have a built in restriction in them from the network. They dont tell you that cause they know you would download lots of things and this would mean they lose revenue. Guess how happy the networks are now that BB Z10 is out and Q10 is on its way. Give us uncapped 3G data and this abuse wont happen for long (lol) or better yet give us uncapped at night only and the networks will function much better during the day. oh one last thing to thing to think about, the guys working at these networks are about 70-80% of the abusers.
 
How do these guys download? to there PC's or directly to the phone.
 
so they supply a service which they cant sustain? then why supply it then?
 
Tns said:
so they supply a service which they cant sustain? then why supply it then?
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It happens with lots of stuff - you launch something expecting a certain usage pattern, some people abuse it in ways you don't expect, so you have to change the rules a bit. Remember in the early ADSL days when account sharing worked, so they limited # of logins, etc? It's a constant battle between the service provider trying to keep prices down and margins as low as possible, and abusers that find loopholes and totally kick the model in the face.
 
Name and shame them! Why will there always be people who will spoil the experience for everyone for their own selfish reasons. If you want to download big, get ADSL uncapped. Shame on all of you who abuse BIS.
 
cozinsky said:
Name and shame them! Why will there always be people who will spoil the experience for everyone for their own selfish reasons. If you want to download big, get ADSL uncapped. Shame on all of you who abuse BIS.
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I don't think they need to go that far - just throttle them. I'm happy for people to abuse the system, they just mustn't moan when the loopholes are closed.
 
It was not the first time that I predicted the future :

Rouxenator said:
It will happen in the next few weeks when MTN implements their BIS anti-abuse system. They have not officially announced it yet, but it is coming.
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marine1 said:
so then why is this not happening on MTN???
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Rouxenator said:
I am not at liberty to discuss the details of that, but all I can say is that all 4 mobile networks are looking at BIS anti-abuse systems.
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