I think we're missing the point. This is all about money, and the more money the telecoms can get out of the "ignorant" South African citizen, the better.
There absolutely no reason, at all why we should be paying per MB / GB for anything, especially locally.
We have some local server with IS, and pay for traffic between 2 server which are located in 2 different datecentres, on the SAME NETWORK. Why????? There's absolutely no reason why, yet they do it. And we don't even pay less for that traffic than for international traffic either.
This leaves a lot of room for questioning. I mean, I can understand if they charge you an X amount for say 512Kb (like the Diginet model), and amount Y for 1Mbps, but we still have to pay for the amount of data downloaded on those lines as well.
And, why hasen't Europe / USA / Australia, etc's telecomms not gone bankrupt when they don't charge per MB on download? Even though about it? They charge for the speed of the line, and that's it. The speed of the line is a CAP in itself. Theoretically, one can download 5GB max on a 64K line.
My argument is, that this is an easy way to make money, lots of money, and no one can do anything about it.
P.S. garthu, why can't you EFT from ABSA to Neotel? Who do they bank with?
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