Surprising BlackBerry usage statistics

average of 160mb a month is kinda steep for R60 a month with limited usage. Low data uses are being ripped of...8ta R80 for 250mb.
 
Wow, this propaganda against Blackberry users from Vodacom is getting old. I don't own a BB, so limiting BB users is to my advantage, so I shouldn't really care but I am against any propaganda. One doesn't need to be a genius to recognise the methodical attack against BB users. I personally will be cancelling my Vodacom account in a couple of months. I can't stand them anymore; red is indeed an appropriate colour for the nonsense they spew.
 
I'm already done with Vodacom. They are quick to rape you off your money, but they don't want to get raped. I stand with all this other people who download movies because that's the only instance where you could get something out of Vodacom. When Vodacom discovered the so called FEW users that misuse their services. Why didn't they take them head on? Why do they throttle their speed with immediate effect and announce it after 3 weeks?( So they wouldn't have announced it if people didn't complain about the slow connection?)

When the consumers started fuming about customer protection act, then the so-called CEO who wasn't even in South Africa that time ordered the service to be back to normal. Their service was back to nor for 2 days only. Then I left Voda for Cell C, by New Year my phone got stole and I got a new one, under voda, I activated my BIS, tried to download a video clip from VuClip and my download speed was 6.2kbps and I never got to download the clip completely because of the download failure.

I called them and launched a slow connection complaint. The technician could not diagnose the problem but he said that Voda throttles the speed after you reach 100mb threshold which I never reached yet.
So I had to get myself another starter pack and divorce vodacom for good. I bought myself a 3G phone, but due to voda being raped now my phone capability matches the one of 2G.

Since the users that misuse the service are few, why don't you blacklist them and throttle their speed instead of anybody else. Now we have to suffer because of other people.

This means that most major companies are full of themselves. They just do whatever they like with their clients.

Sies Vodacon
 
At some point advertisers need to be stopped from advertising 'uncapped' services which include an 'abuse' clause when the 'abuse' is 'using too much data'. Either the service is uncapped or it isn't. You can't have it both ways.
 
also surprising to see that usage on BB. I'm on BES, wife & daughter on BIS... doubt if any of us reach >100Mb pm
downloading and even streaming is not even on the cards with the slow speeds. just using BB for mail, BBM and of course voice calls.
all averages out i guess.... can just lol at guys doing >500Mb pm on BB
jeez, get a data modem with proper connection and speed, ease of use :-)
 
system32 said:
How to mislead with statistics - 2 years ago is a long time in Web/Cell/IT.

Moore's law makes a big difference.

In 2 years, most BB users have upgraded their handsets to newer more media intensive devices.
The web has got bigger and richer in content.
BB Cameras have gone from 0 to 5MP & better, video is more common.
BB-OS7 is more demanding, BB-OS7 Updates are bigger, etc.

So, for a normal user to use 160MB/month is easy.

I think VodaCom is blaming the "down loaders" for the problem,
when the real issue is that 1.5Gb/s is not enough based on how technology has improved in 2 years.

If it's such a problem, just use the T&C's and disconnect them already.
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*LIKE*
 
How many articles about the same subject were published over the last year or so. Every time we read VC and/or MTN is working on measures to sort it. Go and take the measures and get on with something else, this type of regurgitation is not doing MyBB's image any good!
 
these downloads are freely available. u dont even need to signup. the files are heavily compressed at the expense of quality. heard last week the hour series cant be downloaded anymore since mtn has introduced a download file size limit. so you are still able to pick up the comedy series. the quality is terrible though. only watchable on the phone itself.
 
11.5Gbps for 2 million users = 100 bytes / sec per user if all users were on at once... Scary thought in 2012. No wonder it was always slow. When your BlackBerry gets "water damaged" after five months of normal use, its easy to move on to another smartphone. Good Riddance, I hope BlackBerry in SA follows the overseas trends sooner rather than later.
 
SpoonTech said:
11.5Gbps for 2 million users = 100 bytes / sec per user if all users were on at once... Scary thought in 2012.
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The math is weak with this one.

Besides, pretty much all consumer level systems fail when maxed out by all simultaneously. Thats how contended connections work.

Not that any of that makes the slow speeds fine, since people don't all connect at the same time.
 
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