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DapperDanMan
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Not anymore.
Hi, it seems that Google One/Storage has increased their prices from the 21st of September 2023 in South Africa.
I did not receive a mail from Google, I was backing up my device when I stumbled across it.
If you've published an article about it, I do apologize.
If my math is correct the 100GB plan has increased by about 20.5%.
I did not receive a mail from Google, I was backing up my device when I stumbled across it.
If you've published an article about it, I do apologize.
If my math is correct the 100GB plan has increased by about 20.5%.
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Jan van Riebeeckstad
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Why are there no longer any contracts with a free device? Like in the good old days.
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World economy busy collapsing under the weight of Socialism. Businesses are in haywire and don't know which way. Big trouble ahead for consumers globally.
Or just plain old greed
DapperDanMan
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In other words ... a whole FIVE RAND!
airborne
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Someone has to cover the falling value of the Rand.
Since when?
The device has never been "free" though
SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR INSPECTORS ARE DOING ILLEGAL AUDITS
SA Labour law states that a company must keep certain records, and do certain things, such as display or make available to employees the Basic Conditions of Employment Act. These laws may be audited by minister appointed Labour Inspectors, carrying identification (explicitly so stated for a reason), as it involves POPIA protected company and employee information, such as unemployment or skills levy contributions, salaries, etc. These audits must also be done at a company's premises, as your electrician or plumber company would obviously not have a place "where this contractor copany can display the BCEA to its employees" at your house. So the electrician's company, when they send one electrician to replace a breaker in my house’s distribution board, cannot be audited at my house, but that is exactly what these labour inspectors are doing.
Multiple labour inspectors, each seemingly allocated a different area to audit, would go to a big mine or industry, and demand the mine get all its contractors to submit evidence regarding these labour laws. It further gets the employees from the mine to collect these companies’ sensitive and protected information, on the inspector’s behalf.
Contractor companies sometimes have premises at a mine, but most contractors do not. In the latter case, the labour inspectors have zero cause to audit such a contractor company, and also illegally solicit the mine to gather information on a contractor company. Further, the contractor might have 100 employees, but only 1 goes to the mine to fix a machine, making the audit of such a contractor company, at a mine premises, even more illegal.
This is my take, from my interpretation of the BCEA, LRA, and other acts and regulations, and has not been tested in a court of law to the best of my knowledge. This illegal practice has been going on for at least the last 3 years that I am aware of. I believe there are thousands of contractor companies being illegally audited like this, and possibly receiving "compliance orders", and possible fines or other penalties. I suspect labour inspectors get kudos for the number of companies they audit, or something to that effect, as why would they otherwise knowingly transgress, and make companies waste hundreds of man hours to gather updated information over and over, which happens when one contractor company work at many mines?
SA Labour law states that a company must keep certain records, and do certain things, such as display or make available to employees the Basic Conditions of Employment Act. These laws may be audited by minister appointed Labour Inspectors, carrying identification (explicitly so stated for a reason), as it involves POPIA protected company and employee information, such as unemployment or skills levy contributions, salaries, etc. These audits must also be done at a company's premises, as your electrician or plumber company would obviously not have a place "where this contractor copany can display the BCEA to its employees" at your house. So the electrician's company, when they send one electrician to replace a breaker in my house’s distribution board, cannot be audited at my house, but that is exactly what these labour inspectors are doing.
Multiple labour inspectors, each seemingly allocated a different area to audit, would go to a big mine or industry, and demand the mine get all its contractors to submit evidence regarding these labour laws. It further gets the employees from the mine to collect these companies’ sensitive and protected information, on the inspector’s behalf.
Contractor companies sometimes have premises at a mine, but most contractors do not. In the latter case, the labour inspectors have zero cause to audit such a contractor company, and also illegally solicit the mine to gather information on a contractor company. Further, the contractor might have 100 employees, but only 1 goes to the mine to fix a machine, making the audit of such a contractor company, at a mine premises, even more illegal.
This is my take, from my interpretation of the BCEA, LRA, and other acts and regulations, and has not been tested in a court of law to the best of my knowledge. This illegal practice has been going on for at least the last 3 years that I am aware of. I believe there are thousands of contractor companies being illegally audited like this, and possibly receiving "compliance orders", and possible fines or other penalties. I suspect labour inspectors get kudos for the number of companies they audit, or something to that effect, as why would they otherwise knowingly transgress, and make companies waste hundreds of man hours to gather updated information over and over, which happens when one contractor company work at many mines?
Juice
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Kaspersky reckons ewn.co.za appears to be pushing a Trojan:
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Wokeist MSM, they push trash all the time, 24/7.
Afrihost Air Mobile customers have been overcharged by 50%+ for months!
Are you a customer using the Afrihost Air Mobile service, which at present is still advertised as offering call rates of 99c per minute on their website? It appears that MTN retired the price plan that offered the 99c call rate, and moved customers to a R1.50 per minute price plan from 21 June...
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Here's a headline for you:
Afrihost is becoming the new Telkom
Freaky how poor they can manage a product, advertise false information and fail to address it one pointed out.
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Looks like Euphoria Telecom / Freshphone prepaid payment portal is down for the past week, people are complaining that they cannot buy airtime.
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Game posted online yesterday that later that day on their social channels they will post a code that will discount a PS5 to R6499, so if you are fast enough and that if you purchase a new PS5 online at 12:00 on Friday 24 November only 10 people will get a special discount price.
An so later that day a post was seen on facebook with the special code to be used at 12:00 on 24 November 2023. If you tried to use the code before, the site would reply invalid coupon.
So promptly at 12:00 on November 23 12:00, I entered the code and it worked, not giving me the PS5 for R6499 but providing me with another R6499 discount on the already discounted price R1900. Which made the PS5 R5300 which was absolutely incredible.
I immediately clicked on checkout, at this stage this is where the trouble started.
The site kept on saying "Something went wrong please try again".
After 4 min I was able to confirm my delivery adress, and clicked "View Summary" to proceed to the payment, where the site again displayed "Something went wrong please try again".
This persisted for about half an hour, at every 8 or 9th clicked of "Try Again" I was presented with a page to confirm my delivery information.
If I processed to click "View Summry" to process to the payment page the site displayed "Something went wrong, try again".
At about 12:30 my cart was cleared automatically and displayed that there was a shortage of stock, and right after that the site crashed, or if as they displayed in "Maintenance Mode".
After about 10 min the site returned but now the PS5 that was on special was Out of Stock.
I was never given the opportunity to complete my purchase. This is false advertising, I believe from facebook posts nobody could copleted their purchase, is game going to make good on the special discount that I fairly won at 24 November 2023 at exactly 12:00
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An so later that day a post was seen on facebook with the special code to be used at 12:00 on 24 November 2023. If you tried to use the code before, the site would reply invalid coupon.
So promptly at 12:00 on November 23 12:00, I entered the code and it worked, not giving me the PS5 for R6499 but providing me with another R6499 discount on the already discounted price R1900. Which made the PS5 R5300 which was absolutely incredible.
I immediately clicked on checkout, at this stage this is where the trouble started.
The site kept on saying "Something went wrong please try again".
After 4 min I was able to confirm my delivery adress, and clicked "View Summary" to proceed to the payment, where the site again displayed "Something went wrong please try again".
This persisted for about half an hour, at every 8 or 9th clicked of "Try Again" I was presented with a page to confirm my delivery information.
If I processed to click "View Summry" to process to the payment page the site displayed "Something went wrong, try again".
At about 12:30 my cart was cleared automatically and displayed that there was a shortage of stock, and right after that the site crashed, or if as they displayed in "Maintenance Mode".
After about 10 min the site returned but now the PS5 that was on special was Out of Stock.
I was never given the opportunity to complete my purchase. This is false advertising, I believe from facebook posts nobody could copleted their purchase, is game going to make good on the special discount that I fairly won at 24 November 2023 at exactly 12:00
Screeenshots attached
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airborne
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The deal was oversubscribed, thousands of people were trying to checkout on the same item and the website crashed, happened to other retailers, not much you can do.
| Gigabit Mesh Network Mzanzi Comnet, in the Harry Gwala District |
this is publicly funded, would be nice to know what services at what prices are available etc, service provider website is unhelpful
Cabinet statement 29 November 2023:
1.4.1.Cabinet welcomed the launch of The Gigabit Mesh Network in Ward 1 of the Greater Kokstad Local Municipality in the Harry Gwala District of KwaZulu-Natal that is connecting 1 600 households and enabling at least 6 000 community members to access broadband services. 1.4.2. The first Gigabit Mesh Network Mzanzi Comnet, in the Harry Gwala District, is part of the government’s SA Connect programme that aims to achieve universal access to the internet funded through the Broadband Access Fund. This network renders Ward 1 of the Greater Kokstad Local Municipality to become the first wall-to-wall connected site in KwaZulu-Natal. 1.4.3. The Broadband Access Fund has empowered small, medium and micro enterprises (SMME) internet service providers across the country to support the creation of direct and indirect job opportunities for designated groups such as youth, women and persons with disabilities. 1.4.4. In the Harry Gwala District Municipality more specifically, the Broadband Access Fund has been able to empower 12 SMMEs (sub-contracted) while creating 79 job opportunities for youth, women, men and persons with disabilities. |
Can someone from Broad Media officially comment on the legitimacy of Pineapple Insurance's claim (pun intended)?
It strikes me as an odd claim to make, considering that MyBroadband is primarily concerned with assessing the services of companies that operate in the broadband realm (as opposed to car insurance).
Maybe this answers some of my questions:
Generate leads by running surveys on MyBroadband
Running a survey is a great way to generate leads, as well as to generate insight into current market trends.
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Crowley
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MyBB has moved on from just being tech related a long time ago.
Can someone from Broad Media officially comment on the legitimacy of Pineapple Insurance's claim (pun intended)?
It strikes me as an odd claim to make, considering that MyBroadband is primarily concerned with assessing the services of companies that operate in the broadband realm (as opposed to car insurance).
As for the claim, votes were cast, votes were counted, brown envelopes were exchanged, expensive holidays were planned, @Jan got a new haircut and life carried on as usual.
Credit check
I was asked for an ITC Clearance by a Letting Agent. Either I could obtain my own or they would do so for around R250. I looked around. Could not find a single ITC Clearance but in fact separate bureaus - not sure why - who have logged your credit status. Each can offer a report (at least one per year) which is free but the report is merely a summary. This is not good enough. Then there are those who appear to curate from the various bureaus and offer a single report. This again is just a summary and you have to pay for a full report. In the end I found Kudough who also resell but also have an arrangement with Checkers whereby for R100 you can just walk in with your ID have a full printout (but could not be emailed alas). This can then be viewed on the Kudough website but I noticed the website had slightly more detail.
An article on the ins and outs of Credit Checks would be useful.
I was asked for an ITC Clearance by a Letting Agent. Either I could obtain my own or they would do so for around R250. I looked around. Could not find a single ITC Clearance but in fact separate bureaus - not sure why - who have logged your credit status. Each can offer a report (at least one per year) which is free but the report is merely a summary. This is not good enough. Then there are those who appear to curate from the various bureaus and offer a single report. This again is just a summary and you have to pay for a full report. In the end I found Kudough who also resell but also have an arrangement with Checkers whereby for R100 you can just walk in with your ID have a full printout (but could not be emailed alas). This can then be viewed on the Kudough website but I noticed the website had slightly more detail.
An article on the ins and outs of Credit Checks would be useful.