Why Telkom hiked an overseas call rate by 2,600%

Why the DA image instead of Telkom.
 
Make a WhatsApp call to England. I do it weekly and does not cost me 1c (using my home wi-fi)
 
chrisc4290 said:
Make a WhatsApp call to England. I do it weekly and does not cost me 1c (using my home wi-fi)
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genetic said:
Yep... that and Skype, Viber, Hangouts, FaceTime etc...
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Exactly, I can't remember the last time I made an overseas call from a cellphone or a landline. Everyone I want to speak to overseas is either on Whatsapp or Skype. That's probably why they're hiking the prices because call volumes have decreased so much.
 
ginggs said:
That is two thousand six hundred percent,
not two decimal mark six hundred percent.

Officially, South Africa uses a decimal comma
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+100

Unfortunately I think we are fighting a losing battle. Microsoft ruined everyone's twelve years of schooling. This is one of the reasons why we should also support formal media. Media24 publications and others like CAR magazine at least still know the proper way.
 
Skerminkel said:
+100

Unfortunately I think we are fighting a losing battle. Microsoft ruined everyone's twelve years of schooling. This is one of the reasons why we should also support formal media. Media24 publications and others like CAR magazine at least still know the proper way.
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I've always been mystified why the official use in South Africa is the decimal comma. At least when I was at school we were definitely taught to use a period for decimal places. I can't remember ever being taught to use a comma to denote a decimal place.
 
deweyzeph said:
I've always been mystified why the official use in South Africa is the decimal comma. At least when I was at school we were definitely taught to use a period for decimal places. I can't remember ever being taught to use a comma to denote a decimal place.
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Both the comma or period are acceptable in terms of ISO 31-0. The SA Act on Measuring Units and National Measuring Standards (Act 76 of 1973) and Government Notice R1146 recognise the use of the comma only.
Your teachers were therefore either wrong, or you remember wrong. (How many KPA standard exercise books did you puncture while trying to make a clear period, anyway?)

More importantly, however, is using a small space as digit grouping symbol. Here computers screwed us up completely. In M$'s defence: at least you can set it in windows and/or Excel. It is even more of a battle in Linux and LibreOffice.
 
Some standards are just stupid.

2,600.00 is just a better figure than 2 600,00. It's also widely accepted in South African academia.

All it requires is someone to actually go change the act. It's been a problem ever since calculators came out.
 
Garson007 said:
Some standards are just stupid.

2,600.00 is just a better figure than 2 600,00. It's also widely accepted in South African academia.

All it requires is someone to actually go change the act. It's been a problem ever since calculators came out.
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But 2 600.00 is better than both.

Also not sure why MS needs to be blamed if people are too moronic to think for themselves. The first thing I do when I install a new Windows system, is change the decimal and separators to . and space respectively.
 
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