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i’m soooooooo p’d off at telkom right now!

And so, after a looooong wait, I finally received my line, adsl line and what not… happy days. But wait – this is Telkom, there should be something that goes wrong, right?
Right – I received my first bill today and guess what – the idiot installing technician has made some R30 worth of cellphone calls [...]

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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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