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JC08
Joined: Jan 07, 2007
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From: Vanderbijlpark, South Africa
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@ gucci what a welcoming not Lmao!
@ m4tic welcome mate
Yad. Hey. Vav. Hey.
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gola
Joined: Jul 17, 2007
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From: South Africa
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Welcome m4tic 
You are in m3k right, lol, do you intend to continue studying next year?
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gola
Joined: Jul 17, 2007
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@All
Are vodacom's gprs costs the same as vodafone's gprs costs?
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brix25
Joined: Aug 20, 2003
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From: Cape Town, South Africa
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@gola: Only the Wanqsta can accurately answer your question but I would think the Vodafone's charges for data would be more expensive than Vodacom.
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Just got back from a looong parents' evening.
I think da brixsta would be right in saying that Vodafone in SA would possibly be more than Vodacom, but it's all kinda relative.
An example, Virgin in SA won't be the same (per any fluctuating exchange rate) as Virgin UK; the pricing would be evaluated against a specific country's going rates and competition's charges etc etc.
As with Vodafone worldwide, visiting the (crap) Vodafone L!ve portal is free, but venture away and then the costs of course start mounting up...
Vodafone UK have recently changed the way they charge GPRS, probably due to some serious price wars with ASDA (low-cost supermarket powerhouse), who use Vodafone as their roaming partner, Tesco (who use O2 to roam) and other new 'el cheapo' networks like Lebara etc.
Vodafone charge £1.00 (approx R16) per 15MB each day, thereafter £2 (R32!!) per meg!
What happens if one doesn't surf that much a day? As soon as you use over half a meg/500kb, you get docked £1; thereafter the remaining 14 and a half mb are essentially 'free', until you go over that.
If you use less than half a meg a day, you'll be charged with 1p (16c) per 5kb used, which obviously equates to the 100p (£1) = 500kb.
Phew! Right, lemme go make some coffee...
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gola
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From: South Africa
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Brix/Wanqs
Thanks guys
I believe with the info wanqs just gave me, I now have an 80% chance of getting a job at a vodashop,lol.
Anyway, well i've been using my vodafone settings as my primary internet settings, but now i think i'll switch over to the vodacom settings and save a lil'
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amawanqa
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On 2008-11-19 00:01:56, gola wrote:
...I now have an 80% chance of getting a job at a vodashop,lol.
Gola at Voda...
Hmm, catchy phrase, that, LOL.
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brix25
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On 2008-11-19 00:01:56, gola wrote:
Brix/Wanqs
Thanks guys
I believe with the info wanqs just gave me, I now have an 80% chance of getting a job at a vodashop,lol.
Anyway, well i've been using my vodafone settings as my primary internet settings, but now i think i'll switch over to the vodacom settings and save a lil'
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Whichever settings you use, you still get billed the same amount and from my experience there really is no difference in Vodacom's "Internet" APN and Vodafone's "VLive" APN. If you're on bundle than cost can go as low as 35c/MB on a MyMEG500 plan.
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Falcon786
Joined: Sep 09, 2005
Posts: 139
From: Vereeniging-South Africa
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Hey m4tc welcome to SAMD,
lol i also have a w880i and had an n95 when they just got released.yes w880i is a nice slim phone and good for your music via the headset(not sure if it can handle 8gb),but lets be honest as we are all intelligent adults here in this thread-it's not the best!lol it's lacking lots of features that newer phones have now,in fact n95 is also lagging behind nowadays.
Where in SA are you from?
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Rhino8
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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From: South Africa (Bloemfontein)
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@m4tc welcome to the samd
@Falcon and all, maybe m4tc just meant that its the best phone for his needs... Not everyone is as needy as the rest of us when it comes to mobile computing? right?
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Hobbs
Joined: Oct 07, 2006
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Thats all fine but to say the N95 SUCKS is just ludicrous.Maybe the first N95,but not the N95-2.WELCOME by the way.
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Rhino8
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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From: South Africa (Bloemfontein)
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@ all, i know this is major off subject, but im only asking for your prayers, the mrs is in hospital, with some kind of kidney problem. I havent spoken to the doctors yet, so i dont know how serious it is.
I am a bit messed up about it.
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Hobbs
Joined: Oct 07, 2006
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From: Cape Town,South Africa
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Hope its not to serious Rhino.Stay strong bro.Im sure she'll be OK.
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gola
Joined: Jul 17, 2007
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From: South Africa
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Sorry to hear that Rhino, I hope that everything will turn out fine
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m4tic
Joined: Nov 18, 2008
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Guys i was only kiddin bout de W880i beatin n95 thing. I jst wanna know why S.A doesn't hav PlayNow? We r way behind wit technology. Oh i cracked Mtn free wap this mornin(19,11,2008)
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