{"id":63714,"date":"2012-11-01T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T09:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=63714"},"modified":"2012-11-01T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T11:07:52","slug":"mtn-to-throttle-blackberry-abusers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/63714-mtn-to-throttle-blackberry-abusers.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN to throttle BlackBerry abusers"},"content":{"rendered":"

MTN<\/a> said today (1 November 2012) that it is introducing new measures that will help to ensure an improved Internet experience for all BlackBerry<\/a> customers on its network.<\/p>\n

MTN will start to manage usage speeds (hence, throttle the speeds) that fall outside the intended parameters (browsing, e-mail and links to websites) for the BlackBerry Internet Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MTN explained that the throttled services will include streaming, downloading of files and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP<\/a>) on the BlackBerry network.<\/p>\n

The operator said that this measure was needed \u201cdue to a select number of BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) users that regularly download and stream large amounts of content outside of MTN\u2019s fair usage policies, ultimately impacting MTN\u2019s network capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMTN is putting regular traffic monitoring measures in place to ensure BlackBerry customers get the best experience on their network,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

Devan Chetty<\/a>, general manager for core & IP planning at MTN SA, explained that the aim of this measure is to ensure that the current over-usage by a small group of heavy data downloaders does not negatively affect the Internet experience for everyone else.<\/p>\n

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MTN said that it is introducing “new measures” that will help to improve the Internet experience for all BlackBerry customers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":35404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[8515,35,42],"class_list":["post-63714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-devan-chetty","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63716,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63714\/revisions\/63716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}