R149 uncapped mobile data SIM launched

[cavedog]

"However, through a special agreement, they are only paying MTN for the SIM card and not for data. "


This just confirms a scam to me to be honest. Why would MTN give data for free when we know the data costs money and will congest towers while they charge their own direct customers a arm and a leg for data just like other providers.....

I highly doubt this can be true. If it is must just be a business apn deal that has limited data speed shared between users like what Lucidview launched back then.

 

[zizo911]

Sounds to good to be true...

 

[kianm]

Another sh1 t deal. 2015 shouldn't start this way

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

That "blocked list" is going to become longer than Zuma's lying tongue.

Ooooooooooooooo thats a looooooong list.

That aside I cant see myself giving away R149 for a restrictive service .... would rather join MWEB or OW....

 

[Swa]

Ooooooooooooooo thats a looooooong list.

That aside I cant see myself giving away R149 for a restrictive service .... would rather join MWEB or OW....

If it's truly uncapped there are ways to get around the blocking.

 

[Bern]

Excellent idea. If it includes Skype, then I'm in

Good point, they seem to not allow any streaming, so I would also like to know where Skype and similar services fit in their view.

I would add a few other things to get some clarity on:
Google Apps & Drive/Office 365 and MS SkyDrive/Apple Cloud/Dropbox and the likes
Site to site VPNs
torrents
large file downloads (single file larger than say 2GB)

Then I would like to know how they manage identifying and managing the block list - it is not legal for an ISP to record what sites you visit as far as I remember.

 

[saa044]

As this is MTN driven I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole

Why? My whole household is on mtn uncapped. We are able to stream 240p youtube vids smoothly when we are on 256kbps. I am able to download 10 series episodes between 12am and 6am. Just because it does not work for you it means it is crap for everybody.

 

[EtienneK]

If it sounds too good to be true .......

Are there restrictions on VPN's?

If there are, just spin your own on the Amazon cloud.

 

[jacquesvanwyk]

This sounds to good to be true.I am tempted to give it a try.

 

[Tahir Ally]

This is a serious allegation to make. I hope you can back it up with proof.

When I warn people they want proof.

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/116788-beware-r149-uncapped-data-sim-mtn.html

 

[Willy Strong]

 

[Swa]

Good point, they seem to not allow any streaming, so I would also like to know where Skype and similar services fit in their view.

I would add a few other things to get some clarity on:
Google Apps & Drive/Office 365 and MS SkyDrive/Apple Cloud/Dropbox and the likes
Site to site VPNs
torrents
large file downloads (single file larger than say 2GB)

Then I would like to know how they manage identifying and managing the block list - it is not legal for an ISP to record what sites you visit as far as I remember.

I still want to know how they're going to do this. Streaming and downloads are the same at data level. Would have to block it at site level as with porn.

 

[Bosvark@]

Very limited access on my SIM. No sites working so far.

 

[Swa]

Very limited access on my SIM. No sites working so far.

Perhaps they're not blocking sites but instead selecting which sites will work. If it's too good to be true it probably is. Only operators can offer uncapped at this time.

 

[Bern]

I still want to know how they're going to do this. Streaming and downloads are the same at data level. Would have to block it at site level as with porn.

only if it is being tunnelled via HTTP, but per the article it seems they are doing URL/IP blocking - most likely using something like blacklisting.org or such. What I am curious about is if they are also limiting sessions to break any large file downloads, so for example any single stream that exceeds say 40MB gets reset. That would break proxies and VPNs

 

[Space]

Dude is running his operation from his home in Lenasia

http://www.datasim.co.za/contact.html

The little pink house next to the large facebrick mansion ? LOL

 

[Ecco]

The little pink house next to the large facebrick mansion ? LOL

Yup. I checked it out on Streetview too.

 

[Space]

Seems there is now some investigation underway (from MTN's side ?)

I received the following reply from DataSIM when testing the signup process this morning:


Welcome to DATASIM,

Thank you for your interest in our Unlimited Data Sim Card.
Currently we are experiencing issues with the MTN Data SIM CARDS.
We are not sure what will be the result.

We will contact you once we are ready to process orders.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.


Sincerely,

Unlimited Data Sim
Contact: +27 (0)83 986 0150
email: [email protected]
www.datasim.co.za

 

[Gadgenator]

I've ordered one of the Data SIMs from www.datasim.co.za and will receive it on the 3rd of June. Hope it can allow me to do everything on my phone with my apps, except streaming, downloading from YouTube, Sound cloud and Play Store.

Did anyone had experience with this network before?