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+1. Mweb made uncapped a reality in SA in 2010. That was awesome, and I will be eternally grateful to them for breaking that ice, and keep a special place for them if they decide to do something great for the public like that again. But, that's unfortunately where my gratitude and respect for them terminates for now. The fact is that since the launch of their uncapped service, little has improved in terms of pricing or service value - in fact I found that speeds and shaping had generally deteriorated for me on their 4mbps premium uncapped offering, where I could often push up to 6Mbps average speed on those accounts before, but more recently rarely even hit true 4Mbps at all. For those of you who haven't bothered to look at the alternatives yet, just know that there are other ISPs out there who are offering much greater value for the same amount of money right now (eg, I'm on VOX 10Mbps uncapped for R400/mo). I can tell you Mweb killed their news server purely for profit incentive - less juice for the consumer and more for the shareholders. This is obvious because of their recent press releases where they clearly state that they have no immediate intent of changing their ADSL pricing or value offerings, despite competitor innovation going on all around them. Why? Because too many mom and pop are already locked into contracts with them and don't know any better. So I very much doubt the number of NNTP users was as low, as they claim - and even if it was, so what? If it was sustainable before, why kill it now? Why should we be content with LESS value for money than we had when we signed up? Well I'm not. It sure looks like Mweb are going to need some pressuring to innovate again - hopefully this IS acquisition will do some good; but until then they better not try phone me again asking if I want to upgrade my line unless they want to hear how dated I think their service has become. Unfortunately our office line is still with Mweb - fortunately I'm the IT guy and filling in the necessary forms to have that changed soonest. Genuinely looking forward to actually utilizing our line speed. Hopefully more of you do the same, so that we can all benefit from greater value and less chancing/ripoffs in the long run. Sorry Mweb - bad publicity was never an intent of mine, but there's much room for improvement in your offerings, and you know it. We aren't all sheepKill the news server and then phone me trying to get me to migrate my line ....... uhm, pass
