July up to & incl October 2005: WBS has canned the 64kbit policy [for some customers]

[w1z4rd]

Slim, I just got the same mail.

 

[rpm]

Hi folks

We have received official feedback from WBS (CEO and Ops) and they deny that this policy is being implemented. They informed us that they are working on an acceptable user’s policy, but that it is not ready yet. Cara is doing a full report now which should be up in the next hour or so... We can obviously not confirm which side is right or wrong

Regards,

RPM

 

[Bjorn]

that will be good news if its true

 

[jjtoymachine]

hmmm

 

[slimothy]

I'd love to know why I was cut off and why I was told this was due to thier new policy then, well actually it doesnt matter, I know what happened to me and I'm done with it, ADSL ISPs can have my money now

 

[Clipse]

TheRodent - I agree 512Mbit is a bit slow ;( *tehehehe* I take it you meant 512kbit? ;-)

 

[slimothy]

I double dare any one of you to use up your cap now, I'll even give you cool stuff to download from my server, and somethign to watch when then internet goes bye bye

 

[Alter]

Only if you promice, Iburst is still cheaper on this new policy if you can't afford hire priced ADSL at that ****ty speed, where you get Iburst at this speed , or am I missing something?

 

[Clipse]

Its final, and Slimothy agree.. *finally* Iburst is ****, not worth your hard earned money and yes, I actually much rather give my hard earned money to Telkom for their services.

Now that must be enough proof of how **** iburst is. Turning and bending rather for Satan himself ie. Telkom.

 

[jjtoymachine]

I double dare any one of you to use up your cap now, I'll even give you cool stuff to download from my server, and somethign to watch when then internet goes bye bye

im downloading now...i have canceled but even if this is not ture, its had a long time comming

 

[Ravilj]

I just spoke to saun who said that it isnt happening.

 

[Alter]

So Slim, your source, seems to be one of their dumb employees - lol, I hope.

 

[Clipse]

Or.. they got such a fright from this fast evolving forum that they backtracked and reanalyzed their ****ty money grabbing tactics..

 

[slimothy]

yeah, but dont forget I was cut off, I mean i'm not some dumsh!t who walked off the street and doesnt know the difference between being cut off from everything and a bad connection, forget what the souce said, listen to what I, who used to be an iburst supporter said, they cut me off, believe it or don't, I do not care

 

[Simple Twist Of Fate]

I think that is their target market and always was.
Not just the mom-n-pop, but also the SOHO users.

I remember sitting in a meeting sometime back with a marketing chick and two other graphic designers - I was called in to do some multimedia stuff.

They got talking about how dial-up is so expensive and have you heard of this new iBurst thing ?
I kept quiet and just listened. The marketing chick had been short changed by Telkom when she moved offices - couldn't get ADSL.
She was raving about iBurst and how she can get her email anytime she wants etc. - note, this is ALL she cared about. Getting her email quickly.
The graphic designers, two old ducks working on Mac, were at the same level of understanding as the marketing chick - the internet is about email.

Those are the clients iBurst want - the people who are completely unaware of what broadband really means and what services it can bring to them and in fact, how much money they can save.

So the whole thing was indeed a "bait 'n switch" right from the very beggining, as some of the more savvy members of this forum warned.

Now that you "youngsters" have seen the wise advise behind this warning, perhaps you'll be more careful next time and not let your arrogance get in the way of common sense.

This post, is in effect, a rounda-bout way of me saying "I told you so" - dig through my own posts on the fact that iBurst don't want you "broadband abusers" on their network anymore - you helped "stress test" it for them...

Sick, isn't it ?

So sick i FEEL GREEN :/

Thats it in a nutshell................... GOOD POST!!!!!

 

[swordfish1]

ha ha ha, they have so much money they can buy all news sites etc ... I wrote few letters to various media ... I didn't see my stuff published, but instead there was an iBurst advert in the following issues of the relevant media ....

so this is what happen when you mix retarded monkeys with internet ...

I think for the people that are on 24 months contracts, this is a breach of contract from the WBS side ....

 

[P0tenc]

I am sooooo close to canceling it's not funny......working out the cost of a 192kbps package and 10gb account.....

 

[LandyMan]

I am sooooo close to canceling it's not funny......working out the cost of a 192kbps package and 10gb account.....

MAN, you guys are lucky. If only I could get ADSL

/me wanders over to 3G *AGAIN*

 

[playkiller no.2]

Hey why don`t you guys put up a counter that counts down to the number of people who cancel.

"Sir everyone has canceled,we are so screw"

 

[RichardG]

If this is true, I'm going to cancel its cheaper to be on dial up than iBURST, really we have another HellKom on our hands but an ISP, doing the same thing that telkom wants to do in August, but now it seems if they've actually Enforced it they want to recover up there money in rush WBS.

IS WBS BANKRUPT???? ( Do they've the bucks to stay up for another 2 yrs)

That they want Enforce this, I thought WBS was wonderful company during the PRE launch but then they Enforced some rules during the Launch and changes to there network......

WBS will die, if they enforce this new Rule/ (it is focus to Enforce), they don't Inform us of anything they going to get a lot of ppl to Cancel..

WBS will Die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!