Vodacom's BIS Sucks !

Its true, what I used to get on my 8520 (Edge) is comparable or better than the speed I get today on my bold with 3G, it's not RIM, rather over subscribed BIS service on vodacoms side. I'm also tired of constant timeouts, especially when I remember the days when BIS on 3G gave instant page loads, please increase capacity, 1Gbit dedicated for BIS is obviously not enough anymore..
 
Well lets work it out 1gigabit is 1024megabits divided by 1 million bb users all on the net at once is 0.001megabits per second, so i would go with the oversubscribed theory...........
 
Ran 2x speedtests this afternoon. Latency seems to be the major problem. 5921ms and 6733ms. Ok yes, speeds are also bad, but experience probably made worse by the latency.
 
I have complained about Vodacom's BIS since about August last year and I have finally been compensated. Yes, I received an airtime credit (not going to disclose the figure) and a technician was out to test my signal levels. Nothing they did improved the situation and I have moved to MTN and I can honestly say that the BlackBerry experience is now what it should be. Pages load in an instant and I don't have to wait 25 minutes to download an email attachment of 5-7 Mb. Using my 9900 is now a pleasure and the Vodacom sim has been demoted to the 9700.

Vodacom is either throttling (as my speeds returned to normal at exactly 12am and go slow at 9am) or they have horrible congestion on their BIS pipeline.

PS, I no longer get the SOS thing as well.
 
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