Cheaper 3G Prices - Rep?

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morkhans said:
I wonder how you sleep at night? You are knowingly taking advantage of a flaw in someones system.
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Cry me a river.

I'm sure Vodacom's big knobs sleep just fine knowing their Blackberry customers were paying for a service they didn't receive for months, and what about the "Advanced" bundles that revert to Standard bundles on the 1st of the month, that's been going on for almost a year?

And what about the "flaws" they intentionally create to defraud their customers? You pay money for a data bundle, but when it's (up to) 60 days old it evaporates. If you have some MBs carried-over from last month they use your new bundle first. Migrate from pre-paid to contract, you lose your airtime. Migrate from Broadband Standard to Broadband Advanced, whoops, you lose your data. "Sorry, our system doesn't allow for that". You can be damned sure if you owed them money their system would allow for that balance to be migrated.
 
morkhans said:
Clearly my moral system is way different to the rest of mybb. :confused:
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You a good guy morkhans. ;)

The others are feeling disgruntled for obvious reason which they have made very clear on this forum, and even though it does not exuse it, it is normal the reactions that I have seen here. Dont get so upset about it. There is nothing you can do about it, but the fact that you dont agree with it puts out a clear message what kind of a person you are.

I still dont understand how this is possible. Everytime I have used 3G Voda on prepaid, soon as that coutner hits 0megs left then no more interwebz for me. :cry:
 
Park@82 said:
/me thinks keeper found a vodafone/RIM proxy of some sort.
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what's a RIM proxy?

I'm not doing anything other than clicking on the "connect" button in mdma and the APN is "internet" - seriously, im not doing anything out of the ordinary.


Anyway - just forget about it.
 
I remember the days when the Vlive APN was completely free and one could browse the net uncapped. Even with non vodafone simcards all you had to do was put the sim in a vodafone live compatible phone, call customer care and ask to activate vodafone live on your sim. Voila, uncapped free internet...

If one had to go through those kind of efforts to do what Keeper is doing now, i would be a little against it. (Even though i used the vlive exploit in the past). But all one need to do is click connect, and download...No fancy hacks, apn's or anything like that needed...
 
Are you sure it worked like that? The Vlive apn would be free provided you browsed the Vodafone Live portal. As soon as you left the portal and started browsing another site, Vodacom would start charging you. And to my knowledge, that is how it still works to this day.
 
ocleroux said:
Are you sure it worked like that? The Vlive apn would be free provided you browsed the Vodafone Live portal. As soon as you left the portal and started browsing another site, Vodacom would start charging you. And to my knowledge, that is how it still works to this day.
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I did see mention of that in the past, it was indeed broken.
 
ocleroux said:
Are you sure it worked like that? The Vlive apn would be free provided you browsed the Vodafone Live portal. As soon as you left the portal and started browsing another site, Vodacom would start charging you. And to my knowledge, that is how it still works to this day.
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I did see mention of that in the past, it was indeed broken.
 
ocleroux said:
You a good guy morkhans. ;)

The others are feeling disgruntled for obvious reason which they have made very clear on this forum, and even though it does not exuse it, it is normal the reactions that I have seen here. Dont get so upset about it. There is nothing you can do about it, but the fact that you dont agree with it puts out a clear message what kind of a person you are.

I still dont understand how this is possible. Everytime I have used 3G Voda on prepaid, soon as that coutner hits 0megs left then no more interwebz for me. :cry:
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I guess Morkhans didn't see the post... He would NEVER ignore it!
 
ocleroux said:
Are you sure it worked like that? The Vlive apn would be free provided you browsed the Vodafone Live portal. As soon as you left the portal and started browsing another site, Vodacom would start charging you. And to my knowledge, that is how it still works to this day.
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That's how it is now yes. But when it just started out, you browsed for free when you used the Vlive apn and certain proxy. They plugged that hole though. Did a good couple of GB's that way.
 
J0n0 said:
That's how it is now yes. But when it just started out, you browsed for free when you used the Vlive apn and certain proxy. They plugged that hole though. Did a good couple of GB's that way.
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I dont want to hear anymore. It is making me depressed that I missed out on it. Uncapped 3G is what certains peoples wet dreams are made of. I hereby ban any further mention of this for the good of my mental health!

Back on topic. Does anyone know whats happening with WACS? Have not heard anything for a while. Is it still on schedule? What you guys think this will do to 3G pricing?
 
Uncapped 3G is pretty awesome oc, I have personally clocked over 150GB's - for only around R250.

The only problem is you run out of things to download - once you are up to date on your series, it's pretty useless really....




As for WACS, very high capacity cable - but I think we all know it won't do a damn thing. not for 3G users at least :(


There used to be a time when 3G was cheaper than ADSL - something unique to South Africa. I believe this the reason why we now have so many 3G Users - unfortunately, if they don't get back on that horse, more and more people are gonna leave


I have always said, that if 3G ISPs only make their product a little bit more affordable, people will make use of their service. Youtube, Online Backups, you name it - as It stands now most people only download what they REALLY need to.
 
I just had a another idea.

Opera has a product called opera turbo. This is already built into their browser where it compresses webpages on their server before it gets downloaded to your opera browser. BUT, I read somewhere they have a product for operators to be implemented on their side also. So what if Vodacom could implement it as follows.

1. You subscribe to this service and gets activated with a APN thingy magiggy. With this APN, all your browsing will be compressed down (picture quality will be degraded)
2. You pay lets say R300.00 bucks for this and you can browse as much as you like.
3. Your speed will be throttled down and you will not be allowed to download at speeds higher than 512kbps.
4. File downloads will not be allowed from P2P. Or it will be throttled to like 5kbps
5. Fair usage policy of lets say 20GIG. Should you somehow by some kind of 3G mirricale be able to reach that, your service will be suspended untill the 1st of the next month or you give us more dosh!

The above product will be mainly a browsing product...not very good for da pirates as you can imagine :-)

Was just thinking out loud again
 
ocleroux said:
Back on topic. Does anyone know whats happening with WACS? Have not heard anything for a while. Is it still on schedule? What you guys think this will do to 3G pricing?
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Exactly what Seacom did to 3G pricing.
 
ocleroux said:
Opera has a product called opera turbo. This is already built into their browser where it compresses webpages on their server before it gets downloaded to your opera browser...
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I tried it but it didn't work so well for me. When trying to save bandwidth I now use a firefox addon called Image like opera, which basically gives you the option to hide/load chased images only/show all images (same function exists in opera) along with adblock plus and sometimes no-script.
 
Park@82 said:
I tried it but it didn't work so well for me. When trying to save bandwidth I now use a firefox addon called Image like opera, which basically gives you the option to hide/load chased images only/show all images (same function exists in opera) along with adblock plus and sometimes no-script.
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I use Opera browser on my Ubuntu. And when i browse erm...certains sites extensively, i can easily save about 30 - 40 megs during the course of a day. It tells you how much you actually downloaded and how much was saved. If you want to see a certain picture in full quality, you just right click and select "download in full quality"....its very cool....i love opera :-)
 
I understand that if you buy a 2GB bundle on contract and download 10GB you need to pay, because it is YOUR Screwup

But what happens If it's the ISP who screws up? Like say you buy a 2GB Prepaid bundle and you get 10GB? are you liable?
 
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