It’s still uncapped, just rate limited, our old ADSL friend.

I am in the UK…..I
promise you, it is the same speed as SA……I hate that “up to”
statement.  We are definitely not 16mb here, that is BS!!

If it was a 200 MB threshold I would support this “capping”.  100 MB ?!! come on guys ?!!

Oh good luck to them, my cellphone bill is in excess of R4000 per month, and I was advised by them to go the blackberry route, not the iphone route, due only to the fact that I am a high user – my entire business is run from my BlackBerry, if they decided to cap me, all hell would break loose, security would be removing me from their premises on a daily basis… I have also purchased BlackBerry’s for all my staff, combined billing is over R12000 per month and yes we are high-users – and as such our phone bills are higher – most likely in proportion to the usage.
What the idiots should look at, is most likely the 5% of “naughty” users make up for as much as 30% of their phone revenue, as reps on the road need to have uncapped emails etc, but because they are on the road, they also have higher phonebills….

I agree with Dominic Lee. Vodacom is essentially penalising ALL it’s BB subscribers for the few that are abusing the BIS service. Vodacom- catch a wake up. a company as massive as yours should have the resources to limit ONLY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ABUSING THE SERVICE! i have been a loyal vodacom client for going on 9 years now, but if you are going to be the most idiotic network arounf by implimenting the 100mb cap- then i dont see why i should stay with vodacom when my contract comes up for upgrade. the biggest attraction of having a blackberry is the uncapped internet. think about your customers before you make stupid decisions. you tweeted that this will improve service? it will- but only for the first 100mb. if you go over that-you’re fucked. WAKE UP VODACOM!!!!!!!!!

Vodacom states that 5% (yes, A MERE 5%) of vodacom BB users were abusing the service by downloading up to 310Gigs in 30 days. i agree that they could consider that as abuse bacause, if you had to work out the airtime equivillent of that download (at vodacom’s usual R2 per mb) that amounts to a whopping R620 000′s worth of revenue that vodacom doesnt receive. by all means- cap THOSE assholes, but dont punish the rest of us that use the service responsibly! i mean, like i said in my post- im sure vodacom has the resources to single out those 5%, considering they are a major corporation. they can monitor everybodies individual usage, so they should also be able to limit only certain people. and about the CPA (consumer Protection Act) Vodacom will argue that in your contracts, they stipulate that they reserve the right to change the terms of any part of their service plans. what i would suggest everyone do- read through your contracts and lets try find something to nail these bastards on

I will gladly switch to cell c or mtn as long as they don’t implement similar measures. It is the principal that matters, if I cant use my “unlimited internet” as it was intended, then it’s off to android for me…

with vodacom its once bitten twice shy. only way out. dirkvw

all you have to do is scratch out that section in the contract, sign it, get the shop manager to sign as well, so if and when vodacom decide to change anything on your contract, you may then take them to the CPA as it wasn’t what you agreed to!

 they not removing the Cap they Just slowing your Speed Down to 2G, What Uses a differnt bandwith removing congestion to the faster 3G, Read the Articall Not the Title, Title Should be Changed!

I seriously can’t belive you guys are so surprised… Think back to a few years ago and remember VLive… If you thought this was gonna last forever and didn’t learn from that experience with the networks as they are you were very optimistic. Blackberries have horrible firmware as it is, and things like this will push people to (finally) realize that blackberries are the most over-rated things for a long time. I really can’t wait till people stop jumping on the bandwagon.

And in the TYPICAL style of making us pay dearly for the little we already get – they want to take half away!!!!! I will so cancel my contract and let them black list me for this. How can I loose this one? Clearly they are not keeping to their contractual agreement with me hence I can break my side of the agreement – Useless fools we are all seeing RED now !!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no cap. It’s just downgrading the speed. Please understand the article and ignore the title.

o hell no!!!! i use my blackberry for private as well for my work… theres no way in hell you gona say i am abusing the facility

the definition of a cap is either limiting the amount of data that can be downloaded, or throttling the SPEED. so by definition- THIS IS STILL A CAP!!!!!!! and before you try and argue- speak to an IT professional. plus- it’s a permanent “downgrade” of speed- which classifies as a cap

the definition of a cap is either limiting the amount of data that can be downloaded, or throttling the SPEED. so by definition- THIS IS STILL A CAP!!!!!!! and before you try and argue- speak to an IT professional. plus- it’s a permanent “downgrade” of speed- which classifies as a cap

So yo’d be ha[[y with the bicycle ride in your driveway then???

There is no reason. Blackberry is sub-standard when you compare it to iPhones, high-end Androids and WP7 phones. The future lies in those 3 OS’s, Blackberry’s suck, and most people are duped into buying that over priced brick, because of the supposed data advantages.

If Vodacom goes through with this we will see how many customers they lose. I emailed this link to RIM (Which writes BB’s software) just now since they are not aware of this. We wil see what the outcome of this fight is gonna be ……. If vodacom does that its a breach on contract and service level agreement with RIM. The RED network is gonna become a DEAD Network for sure, I will switch over to MTN within 24hours. They are a bunch of money driven (no loyalty to there curtomers) focussesd company, its good for them to give their customers shit phone deals on contracts for which you have to pay in, that way the shareholders and CEO make more Millions a year they can spend as bonusses. Use the money to upgarde tyour networks to handle the banwith you selfish bastards !!!!!!  

These days it’s so difficult to get good service ANYWHERE! I left MTN after I sent my brand new contract phone (had it 4 months) in for a faulty speaker and received an unusable phone back, with motherboard destroyed by the technical dept. MTN just refused to fix or replace the phone and I had to finish the 2 year contract without the phone I was paying for.  The letters from my lawyer was just completely ignored. So I switched over to Vodacom! Is there no proper service providers in this country anymore??!!

These days it’s so difficult to get good service ANYWHERE! I left MTN
after I sent my brand new contract phone in for a faulty speaker and
received an unusable phone back, with motherboard destroyed by the
technical dept. MTN just refused to fix or replace the phone and I had
to finish the 2 year contract without the phone I was paying for.  The
letters from my lawyer was just completely ignored. So I switched over
to Vodacom! Is there no proper service providers in this country
anymore??!!

The 95% are using 8520 curve phones on OS5 which can’t download anything bigger thn 6mb the rest of us with phones running OS6 are only limited by the size of our memory cards

To add on to my comment, I think a better idea is for Vodacom to throttle speeds on certain activities only for those users and not all ( Shaping),ask the question, what are these people doing to abuse the network ? and throttle them there , instead of impacting the whole user experience.

100mb is nothing these days , I hardly consider that abuse

I work in Ghana, but have SA links. Here Vodafone (same family) have a reasonable usage limit on Prepaid BB which is set at 2.5GB per month. Post Paid here is for corporates only so 95%+ of market is prepaid.
The Prepaid BB package here has the following addons, which Post Paid doesnt = 100 free minutes; 50 free SMS; reasonable usage to 2.5GB of data for GHC45.00 per month (ZAR approx. R220.00)
So if a smaller service entity within the greater Vodafone group can prevail with such sanity why not the largest on the continent.
There is no mention of throttling here, the network just doesnt function at time, which could be another way of managing bandwidth usage! But that’s another issue altogether.
Changing contract expectations be damned, deliver what you offer and stick to it.

Vodacom/Vodafone is making sh** because the thing I love about BlS is that I can browse and browse and browse – and BBM. I don’t think I abuse the service – not intentionally anyway. How will this affect me?