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Kwiksta
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@Brix... Nice choice!
@786... Sorry bro, I was out yesterday (Bank Holiday in U.K.) But, Happy B-Lated Birthday! 
Branding? Do most South African's know what that is? Of course you guys do, but when I was there no-one knew a thing about it
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brix25
Joined: Aug 20, 2003
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From: Cape Town, South Africa
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@TeenInvader: So what was your username before the name change?
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TeenInvader
Joined: May 13, 2005
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Siosal
Joined: Oct 27, 2004
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From: South Africa
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Speaking of branding taking up memory, on the k750 between 5 and 8 megs are used just for the vlive "tour".
Brix, I see your point with number portability, but does voda really want for example, a voda user using an mtn branded phone on their network (and vice versa)? No. I'd say not. So what you end up having is a cross-pollination of branded phones across networks. Mtn users using voda phones etc.
Makes for bad advertising.
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Rhino8
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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From: South Africa (Bloemfontein)
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About the bad advertising, i also thought bout it, but now, the way they think i guess, if a user use a voda branded phone with mtn the ppl around the user only sees the branding, hardly ever sees the screen
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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More cellphone pics and facts by Sir Wanqa of Hornchurch.
To the side of the ruins of Melrose Abbey in Melrose, in the Borders county of Scotland, lies the burial place of the legendary Robert the Bruce's heart.
(His body is buried in Dunfermline.)
It was Bruce's wish to go on a crusade against the Infidel, once Scotland was free, but he could not fulfil this pledge. Instead his heart was carried into battle in a leaden casket by James Douglas. Douglas died in battle hurling the casket into the heart of foe. It was later successfully returned to Scotland.
Taken with the ol' P900:
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TeenInvader
Joined: May 13, 2005
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This number porting. How is it going to work?
Will I be using the voda SIM on MTN. Or I will get a new MTN but keep the old VODA number? |
Falcon786
Joined: Sep 09, 2005
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From: Vereeniging-South Africa
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Hey guys i finally got a decent phone:-) been suffering since saturday coz ordered a w900 and sold both my v360 and 6510.I bought a brown cream and silver n70 today for R1200!Luckily it's not fishy coz i know the phone and bought it from someone i know!It's a great phone.Main problem is that keypad is painfully small!Not exactly mxit friendly!
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amawanqa
Joined: May 08, 2004
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@ TeenInvader,
I'm sure number porting will be similar to how it's done in the UK. I've explained the procedure on this thread under my previous username, but
herewith an explanation by some wanqa in another thread:
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On 2005-06-08 20:57:40, amawanqa wrote:
Right, now pay attention, 007....
I have ported a total of nine simcards with different UK networks for friends and family.
Firstly, you have the right to request your Port Authorisation Code (PAC) number, whether PAYG or if your contract is up.
There is no charge for obtaining your PAC number, except for the phone call to your network. During office hours, Orange, Vodafone and Virgin have all been able to give me a PAC number over the phone there and then. You may have to wait a few minutes while they obtain the PAC number, sometimes from a different dept.
The first time I asked Orange, they said it would arrive in the post within 48 hours, which it did.
3 asked me to call the next day (24 hours) and the O2 was supposed to contact me, also within 48 hours. When they didn't, I phoned them again..they were most apologetic and then gave me the number immediately.
Your PAC number is made up of 3 letters and 6 numbers.
Once you have your PAC number, you will have a 30 day window to port your number. If you don't, the PAC number will expire and you will then stay on the network you were trying to leave. However, you may phone the network up again and request another new PAC number, which will again be valid for 30 days.
NB: If you are porting to a PAYG, you will need a new unregistered simcard (of your new network) pack handy as well as (obviously) your PAC number before phoning your new network.
Most networks take 5 to 10 working days, once they receive the PAC number from you, to activate the number on your new network.
Lastly, you may use the old sim on the old network right up until the day before the number is due to be ported over. They normally request you switch your phone off during the day of porting and switch it on again in the early evening...and all being well, it should be up and running.
This may seem obvious, but before there is tears, credit on your old simcard cannot be ported to your new simcard...only the number is ported, so make sure your contacts etc. have been saved onto your phone.
Phew! Hope this throws enough light on the subject...obviously, I can only speak from my own personal experiences.
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francoislr
Joined: Jun 15, 2006
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Just a quick thing if any of you guys want to turn to a life of crime, and nail telkom for the bastards they are: any important sites that are hosted there, phone telkom, tell you want to transfer it and they must accept the transfer ticket, and then phone the isp you want to transfer it to..Telkom will just say "Yes Sir!" and do it, where they should have extensive security measures in place to make sure this is what their clients want. We just handled a transfer from them and they just agreed without authenticating that we are acting on behalf of the client...
Moral of the story, DO NOT deal with Telkom unless your business depended on it. They will screw you over.
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zani_003
Joined: Mar 02, 2005
Posts: 38
From: South Africa, Durban
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wtf? a new se charger costs R250? any1 know where i can get one @ lower prices? |
brix25
Joined: Aug 20, 2003
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@brad: Why don't you just buy the generic one, at the authorised dealer they will set you back just under R100 and at the even cheaper side-street stores you can pay something like R50 for a new charger.
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francoislr
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Good warning about the charger...means I have to stop jumping on mine...Anyone have any idea how much a w900i headset would cost, just for interrest sake...?
Oh yeah, wanted to go into the Mxit thing earlier...forgot. My brother is a teacher, Computer Science. In his school Cell phones are banned, but the kids have them around, and there is absolutely no way you can prevent this. During class if you dare tell them to stop or try to take their phones you get aggression, and this in a school where the kids are from our neighbouring area which is almost like the ghettos, so they would almost just about kill you.
Another interresting thing, my brother mentioned one of the kids parents told one of the teachers to spank his kid, the teacher refused, using the whole against the law thing as an excuse. The parent told the teacher to go to the court and police station, and find out about this...Aparently teachers are allowed to spank kids with parental concent, and only on their butts...Reason I bring this up is because we got spanked, and to an extend it seems to be the only thing that works...
Okay, now on a deeper note, go read this article about Congo...It broke my heart...Warning, it is long, and harsh....
www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=863
Tell me what you guys think. This is reality, and it gets ignored. I feel so powerless when I read stuff like this...
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brix25
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@francois: Damn, that article is fookin depressing. Some months back I spoke to barman at one my local haunts- he happens to be from Congo-Brazzaville and said the war in DRC was not fuelled by ideology but simply greed to control mineral resources.
Africa is a cruel place and the DRC delivers tales that are so depressing one could almost stop believing in the human spirit of ubuntu. They might stop fighting tommorow but war will rage in the place for years to come.
I would suggest anyone who hasn't seen it to watch Lord of War which a brilliant satire about the arms trade and how Africa's mineral wealth fuel wars on the continent...also read the The Wonga Coup a brilliant book about the failed coup bid in Equatorial Guinnea by mostly South African mercenaries.
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Kryptik
Joined: Jun 24, 2005
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Damn, that article really IS depressing, and you're right about feeling powerless, Francois... About the spanking thing, eish, ek weet nie so mooi nie, boet... I mean, from a legal point of view, as a teacher i'm in loco parentis when the child's in my care, and if the parent has given consent to certain aspects of the child's development/training it's all good, but i'm really doubtful about corporal punishment.
Having a bit of a legal background i've warned my head-idiot on a few occasions not to permit parents to whack their kids in his presence, when the parents are called to school to discuss the child's behaviour, or lack thereof. It infers that he is complicit in the beating, purely because he has permitted it...
What's more, there was an incident fairly recently where a parent had told a math teacher something similar, about having permission to discipline her daughter. The teacher was subsequently arrested, charged and convicted after the girl laid a charge of assault with the police... all because he took one of those clear standard plastic rulers and hit her twice over the palm with it... I mostly solve the problem in my classes by making them do physical work after classes, i.e. cleaning the playing areas, weeding, etc but even this doesn't deter some of them... And yebo, with some kids it's wise not to push one's luck too much- you're asking for a knifing, shots fired in your direction or your car stoned... These are interesting times in which we live, folks 
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