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so I've been trying to get a large data package for a reasonable price in my neighbourhood, so obviously the 1st thing I tried was getting ADSL, but was initially regrettably informed that there is no infrastructure for ADSL where I live, to which I responded with sending an email from telkom back to them that they told me that there is infrastructure available for 10Mbps ADSL...
To which they then responded with, "the exchange is full, and we don't know when ports will become available"
as you can imagine I'm already quite frustrated at this point, so I decided, I'm going to get LTE instead, but the coverage map clearly states I have none of that either, so off I go to the Telkom store in a feeble attempt to persuade them to send a technician over to my house to see if I can in fact pick up an LTE signal as I know these coverage maps are not always accurate, and if so perhaps join one of their contracts. of course to no avail, speaking to customer service over the phone I was told that if I go to a shop they would be able to send a technician...
so failing that, I trawled through gumtree and picked up a B593s-601, went home, plugged it in, and voila 2 bars of LTE and 26Mbps download/2Mbps upload speed on my prepaid telkom SIM. so I was curious about whether or not I could get one of these futurehood uncapped deals, so I looked at that coverage map and realized that I miss the futurehood base stations by less than 2km in almost a full circle around me, and the map app tells me I can not apply... so I wonder if there is a representative here who can actually be of assistance, as I do in fact have LTE coverage, steady enough to VPN into the office all day
TL;DR;
long story short, can't get adsl in my hood
adsl story 1: no adsl coverage
adsl story 2: exchange is full in my area
coverage map says no LTE coverage at my house
bought B593, found LTE signal, need uncapped
would like to get a futurehood uncapped LTE, the other base stations around me are almost completely unoccupied with less than 6 uncapped LTE users on each, can I not just be connected to one of those as I am so close to those base stations... how do I get connected to one of these base stations
hoping for a happy ending
... so to speak
so I've been trying to get a large data package for a reasonable price in my neighbourhood, so obviously the 1st thing I tried was getting ADSL, but was initially regrettably informed that there is no infrastructure for ADSL where I live, to which I responded with sending an email from telkom back to them that they told me that there is infrastructure available for 10Mbps ADSL...
To which they then responded with, "the exchange is full, and we don't know when ports will become available"
as you can imagine I'm already quite frustrated at this point, so I decided, I'm going to get LTE instead, but the coverage map clearly states I have none of that either, so off I go to the Telkom store in a feeble attempt to persuade them to send a technician over to my house to see if I can in fact pick up an LTE signal as I know these coverage maps are not always accurate, and if so perhaps join one of their contracts. of course to no avail, speaking to customer service over the phone I was told that if I go to a shop they would be able to send a technician...
so failing that, I trawled through gumtree and picked up a B593s-601, went home, plugged it in, and voila 2 bars of LTE and 26Mbps download/2Mbps upload speed on my prepaid telkom SIM. so I was curious about whether or not I could get one of these futurehood uncapped deals, so I looked at that coverage map and realized that I miss the futurehood base stations by less than 2km in almost a full circle around me, and the map app tells me I can not apply... so I wonder if there is a representative here who can actually be of assistance, as I do in fact have LTE coverage, steady enough to VPN into the office all day
TL;DR;
long story short, can't get adsl in my hood
adsl story 1: no adsl coverage
adsl story 2: exchange is full in my area
coverage map says no LTE coverage at my house
bought B593, found LTE signal, need uncapped
would like to get a futurehood uncapped LTE, the other base stations around me are almost completely unoccupied with less than 6 uncapped LTE users on each, can I not just be connected to one of those as I am so close to those base stations... how do I get connected to one of these base stations
hoping for a happy ending
... so to speak 
