R8,500 data bill for Windows 10 updates

[BBSA]

Actually most people are more going along the lines of....

"Your line was softlocked, you then explicitly requested it be unlocked... Anything that happened after that is your own damn fault and stop crying to the press about your own damn stupidity"

I agree this user must take responsibility, but Vodacom system is also to blame. On Vodacom you can not lock your data usage independently, meaning you also can not make calls when your account is softlocked.

Vodacom should give their users an option not to go OOB if they so desire.

 

[airborne]

Never use a contract sim without oob limit/cap set connected to a pc, Windows just goes nuts sometimes, never mind every fudging piece of software on the computer wanting to update every few days.

If I don't use my laptop for a few weeks I can have up to half a gb in auto updates for various software/os without having even opened a browser just turning the laptop on and logging in, such a pita.

 

[Drake2007]

Never use a contract sim without oob limit/cap set connected to a pc, Windows just goes nuts sometimes, never mind every fudging piece of software on the computer wanting to update every few days.

If I don't use my laptop for a few weeks I can have up to half a gb in auto updates for various software/os without having even opened a browser just turning the laptop on and logging in, such a pita.

I try to run apt-get update && upgrade on Debian about once a week and if I hazared a guess it will be no more than 100MB a shot, that's my OS and apps all together up-to-date in one shot.

Really the problem here is Windows, not anything else

 

[Swa]

So it's Vodacom's responsibility to give users access to cheap broadband that the masses can afford?

Technical ignorance is not an excuse here either. If you want to own a computer or a smart device, you should learn how to use it and the potential pitfalls of the device.

Should you also be an engineer to drive a car? The fact is Vodacom's prices hasn't scaled to people's general data usage. We should have an investigation by Icasa but unfortunately they require investigation themselves.

Nope...I am not the one living in a hole, it seems. Give me examples of these people please. According to you there are "plenty", so giving me a few examples should be very easy. I am genuinely curious.

Yes you bloody are. Lots of people can afford a R2000 device but few can afford R500/month for proper connectivity especially if they saved up for months for it. Also even if every one of them could afford it Telkom would not be able to service thousands of people in an area with only a few dozen access nodes.

 

[Zoomzoom]

Yes you bloody are. Lots of people can afford a R2000 device but few can afford R500/month for proper connectivity especially if they saved up for months for it. Also even if every one of them could afford it Telkom would not be able to service thousands of people in an area with only a few dozen access nodes.

And that is discounting all the high end devices that get passed on by friends and family when their account gets an upgrade with a new handset.

 

[Praeses]

I try to run apt-get update && upgrade on Debian about once a week and if I hazared a guess it will be no more than 100MB a shot, that's my OS and apps all together up-to-date in one shot.

Really the problem here is Windows, not anything else

That's definitely not the case with most Linux distros I've used.

 

[Splinter]

But yet, if you are on pre-paid they can cut you off immediate

It is just a money-making scheme from Vodacom

Indeed. Makes you wan't to change. But unlike oversea's, it seems the only choice we have is which provider is less farked up...