MTN Uncapped services from 1 June

schumi said:
Well a very tiny baby step in the right direction, But the last thing we want is mtn to think its okay to throttle subscribers for many years and still call it uncapped.
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Whats the bet that they'll certainly try using that line for the next 2 years...?
 
Rouxenator said:
Well it is see, but because you only get 128kbps after you did your first 3GB, it is the connection that limits you to 30GB.
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Ya, but who's got the patience to wait for that 30GB to come down. No ways, it's just too damn slow. I think more like 5 or 6GB at the end of the day
 
If you scrap the 3Gigs and replace it with a laptop deal for the same price you have a potentially interesting product.

Personally 128kb/s on a cellphone isn't bad and the browsing experience on Virgin vs MTN has been much of a muchness for me, so I'd certainly take up a service giving me uncapped 128kb/s for a phone if the price was half of what it is. Rather give me uncapped slownet for a decent price than bundling a 3gig capped broadband product with an uncapped slownet and charge me an arm and a leg.
 
This is the same crowd that offers, an internet day pass for R50... very similar:

MTN One Day Internet Bundle Rules:

  • After buying the bundle, the customer needs to activate it via MTN Self Service (by calling 141 or dialling *141*6*5*3*1#), for the 24 hour clock to start.
  • Upon activation of the MTN One Day bundle, the customer’s default billing method will be overridden until the end of the 24 hour period or until the deactivation of this option by the customer.
  • Access to the internet is unlimited for 24hrs from time of activation however a fair usage limit will apply after 150MB.
  • MTN One Day internet bundle can be used on any of the currently active price plans (PayAsYouGo, Contract and TopUp).
  • When the duration has elapsed, the normal flat rates will apply in line with the customer’s last billing method, if no additional internet bundle option is bought.
  • Customers will be able to access the internet at the best available speeds for the first 150MB. The actual speeds depend on MTN network and the customer’s device capacity and capability.
  • Once the fair usage limit of 150MB has been reached, customers will be soft capped (rate limited down to 128kbps)...

This offer is R50 for 150mb of data, thereafter the connection is throttled to 128kbps... do people really use this type of offer? For what? And that is not a 'a fair usage limit' it's unfair!

MTN... again... EPIC FAIL
 
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Paul Hjul said:
Personally 128kb/s on a cellphone isn't bad and the browsing experience on Virgin vs MTN has been much of a muchness for me, so I'd certainly take up a service giving me uncapped 128kb/s for a phone if the price was half of what it is. Rather give me uncapped slownet for a decent price than bundling a 3gig capped broadband product with an uncapped slownet and charge me an arm and a leg.
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If you were only using it on a cellphone then you'd be better off buying a small bundle which would cost you much less and not tie you to a contact. I think for every situation there is a better solution than this scam.
 
MTN One Day Internet Bundle is like this, you pay R50 and you finish the 150MB in about 10 minutes on HSDPA 3.6 leaving you to max out 850MB for the remainder of the day on 12kb/s. So it is actually R50 for 1GB provided you have the patience and 3.6Mbps HSDPA to kill off the 150MB fast.
 
Raphael123 said:
This is really expensive. Rather use Gconnect or IBurst.
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I agree. I use G-"Con"-nect, only 3 problems: 1. Their keep-alive login uses too much of your bandwidth. 2. Can't ping or use RDP to my home network, from another remote site.They have taken over a week, and still can't resolve this. Very strange!!?
3. Why do I need a keep-alive, they should just get their strange "connection manager" working on Windows 7 !!

back to the subject:
MTN - you should be ashamed :cry: and the competition board should disallow :twisted: this misleading type of service. It is NOT uncapped it is THRottled by the Neck !! :sick: :sick: :mad:
It's like buying petrol for you car, but after you've used a 1/10 of a tank, you can only do 50km/h on a highway !!! :sick:
 
That so incredibly funny. what are you meant to do with the 128kb speeds after your cap?
 
What everyone else said: 3G for R799? Did Gian Visser help MTN come up with this deal?

LOL@MTN...
 
If the amount you download is not limited by your actual maximum speed of your line / wireless connection then they shouldn't be allowed to call it uncapped as they are theoretically capping you to a specific monthly amount with the throttling. (hope that made any sense)

The ASA should just rule that all these "uncapped" products that have Fair Usage or throttling are re branded as capped / throttled products.
 
If it was uncapped meant for phone use and cost less than R200 or so it would be great. But this is stupid.
 
My sentiment exactly. What i questioned is if we can see it why cant the they see it?

alt21 said:
If the amount you download is not limited by your actual maximum speed of your line / wireless connection then they shouldn't be allowed to call it uncapped as they are theoretically capping you to a specific monthly amount with the throttling. (hope that made any sense)

The ASA should just rule that all these "uncapped" products that have Fair Usage or throttling are re branded as capped / throttled products.
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Does this mean that once you hit the fair use policy that your speed will be UPgraded to 128 kbps? :D
 
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