Vodacom ignoring ISPA guidelines on broadband terminology

[Jan]

Vodacom breaks ISPA guidelines on broadband

Vodacom is advertising a hard-capped broadband service as uncapped, which is against the Internet Service Providers Association’s “Guidelines and Recommendations on Broadband Terminology”.

It offers three “Home Internet LTE Uncapped” packages with speeds of up to 10Mbps, 20Mbps, and 30Mbps.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Tut tut tut Vodacom... being scummy as usual I see.

 

[quovadis]

FFS uncapped is uncapped.

 

[RonSwanson]

How can one "break" a guideline?

 

[ajan]

Imagine being a customer

 

[ShaunSA]

Vodacon

 

[freematrix]

Vodacom is not a member of ISPA. What a joke. They have applied to join? They make it sound complicated.

With DFA broken as well since Vodacom, sh$$ty voice network, Vumatel breaking everywhere since Vodacom, flat out lying to customers on FUP, no longer the "best mobile network". This is what happens when you let these companies turn into their own little monopolies. They just dont care.

 

[TPM]

Isnt this tantamount to fraud ?
Fine them heavily?

 

[Skerminkel]

“We are currently reviewing our position on the matter and will provide an update in due course,”

That is a lot of words to say f*k@f.

 

[Totempole]

Not defending Vodacon at all, but has anyone tried to use mobile data throttled to 2mbps?

It's as good as being hard capped.

2mbps on a DSL line is just barely usable. 2mbps on a mobile connection is not.

 

[ThinkCentre]

...MTN is not doing the same?

 

[LazyLion]

Typical scummy behaviour for these con artists...

 

[Bosvark@]

Vodacom should be dumped en masse. They going from bad to shocking.

 

[Bliksis]

What is the point of the ISPA, and why would you as ISP join?

 

[cda]

How can one "break" a guideline?

One that only applies to members of a now defunct organization…

 

[cda]

What is the point of the ISPA, and why would you as ISP join?

Main benefit used to be peering exchanges. But thats not necessary anymore and there are alternate exchanges now. So I have no idea why anyone would join anymore

 

[nielinnamib]

Vodacom breaks ISPA guidelines on broadband

Vodacom is advertising a hard-capped broadband service as uncapped, which is against the Internet Service Providers Association’s “Guidelines and Recommendations on Broadband Terminology”.

It offers three “Home Internet LTE Uncapped” packages with speeds of up to 10Mbps, 20Mbps, and 30Mbps.

There is a small problem vodacom is not posting an that is with some of there contacts they offer a xbox or a laptop. 1 game pr 1 new instalation with updates of Windows will hit that cap straight away with there own contacts

 

[nielinnamib]

If only one of there customers are gamers you can hit that cap with just installing of any new game. Example call of duty minimum of 50gig without any updates. And I'm very sure vodacom does have more than 1 client that has gamers using there services. This it 3de world type of thinking. Even Google gives you a 15gig cloud storage free as sync on phones can upload videos photos and more to your cloud. There restrictions would have worked in the year 2000 but sadly we have progressed since then. So if you know anything about computers servers or games you will know this is a flawed system to make more money.

 

[nielinnamib]

Now I only mentioned games. What about our students in South Africa that can stream their days classes? That is 1gig per class depending on the time of the lecture. So a student may only do 1 third of his studies before vodacom forces him to pay more? So we're going to put restrictions on learning in South Africa if you're a vodacom customer.

 

[nielinnamib]

Main benefit used to be peering exchanges. But thats not necessary anymore and there are alternate exchanges now. So I have no idea why anyone would join anymore

Cda there are many different methods today. But I think the real question here is, is what there doing right or wrong and does it borderline on a legal issue as its pre existing contracts that they are changing. And this can set a premises for others to do the same in South Africa.