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airways – air waves, why fly – wifi.

For frequent flyers, the words “please switch off all cellphones and other electronic devices” or “do not switch on your cellphone until the cabin doors have been opened” is unambiguous with flying. Don’t get too used to this now though – South African Airways is in the process of approaching the South African Civil Aviation [...]

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how to excel at atrocious customer service – ask vodacom

It seems as if big corporates in South Africa just don’t understand how to treat their customers properly. What should more worrisome to the brains in the marketing department is that modern astute customers, such as brightshark and his generation x friends, no longer only play in a physical world: the virtual world is our [...]

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icasa goes for small fry, not worried about monopolies

According to recent reports, some ICASA (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) inspectors are doing the rounds, visiting cellphone stores and confiscating cellphones not bearing the “ICASA approved” stickers. Some insiders claim that thousands of confiscating cellphones line the corridors of ICASA’s offices as evidence.
Apart from feeling sorry for the small [...]

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south africa’s narrow-band

I recently visited http://www.speedtest.net/index.php, which allows one to test how fast one’s connection to the internet is.
I have a 384 kb/s adsl connection from Telkom and these are the stats that I got:

Even more interesting, are the results of the tests which have been done by other visitors to the speedtest site:
Japan [...]

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