What can you do with a ridiculously tiny 40MB data bundle?

[kaspaas]

Read the article at

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/mw/view/mw/en/page71?oid=212482&sn=Detail

Thanks Moneyweb for focussing on this scam!

 

[ColinR]

download almost 30 1.44Mb disk images! What more do you want
30, thats alot!

 

[bekdik]

A job for the advertising standards committee?

 

[AutoX]

really dont know hey....

 

[Moederloos]

I used 40MB just switching my PC on this morning...

 

[AutoX]

maybe its for pensioners

 

[Moederloos]

maybe its for pensioners

It is for "home use". The great broadband excuse we hear time and time again.
Or, in short, "if it is for home use, it is allowed to suck donkey nads".

 

[LazyLion]

I only use 20 Mb a month to check my e-mail on my cellphone, surf the odd web page, and IM a few times a month. I have a 20 Mb bolt on contract. Is all I need. 40 Mb must be for people who check their e-mail twice as often as I do on their cellphones!

 

[cookiemonster]

You can load one Facebook page.

 

[Keeper]

You can see a few Flash Animated Adverts on Google / Yahoo

 

[Vrotappel]

Get about 40 spam e-mails from iBurst a month.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Next to useless.

Heard a birdie twitter that you can get a huge bill should you go over your alloted 40Mb limit...

 

[hyperian]

I would imagine that the majority of people that this is aimed at (noobs, pensioners) probably dont know how to turn off windows automatic updates. I did a clean install and forgot to disable - got raped for 200 megs of updates. Or Acrobat Reader - thats thte worst. That will chow your 40 megs.

 

[w1z4rd]

The Iburst scam..

 

[Cyberdude]

Better turn your antivirus & windows updates and all other automatic updates off if you plan to go for that 40M. I use 3 x 40M per day.... on average - or close to 4G per month.

 

[fragtion]

You can load one Facebook page.

Realistically, you could probably browse facebook consistently for about an hour with 40MB.
Two or three YouTube clips of 3+ minutes and there's your cap gone. Hahah.
I use about 50GB a month - how ANYONE can survive a MONTH with 40MB is insane.

 

[lilGr]

LOL what a joke..

 

[The_Unbeliever]

This cannot compare with this http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=124528

 

[Wyzak]

Personally I believe that it should not be considered broadband.

40MB per month = 1.31MB per day = 0.05MB per hour = 0.015KiloByte per second.
Most definitely not broadband.

3GB per month = 128MB per day = 5.33MB per hour = 1.5KiloByte per second
Also not broadband.

I believe the current definition for broadband from racist ICASA is 128KB/s.
That would equate to 450MB per hour = 10.8GB per day = 329.4GB per month.
Welcome to broadband.

 

[krycor]

On a cellphone, email, facebook amd IM uhm 40mb... Maybe with images disabled i use double and its doable. Still if its for pc, then 500mb minimum per user if scarce and 1.3gb i think for dial up replacement excl large updates >100mb. The fact that they say they get a large number entry users is evidence of abuse of novice users. Keep in mind dial up users WILL lack understanding of bandwidth and just be thinking fixed cost. I think ISPA should have slapped the hands of some its members but alas not. Hoping icasa takes non-cellular(it ok for cell use, heck think remote sensors) to task over this as i am getting sick of people getting caught with low usage account contracts, maybe force cancellation of such contracts is whats needed as it really is that bad.