I live less than 2km from Vodacom’s HeadOffice; Vodaworld. I can see 2 cellphone towers from my house and yet I get no 3G signal at home. Zip. Nada. Nothing. This despite Vodacom’s coverage map saying that I have HSDPA coverage at my house.
Mind you, MTN is not much better. We get signal but it is intermittent and more GPRS than anything else. And Telkom, in it’s great wisdom, informs us we are too far from the exchange so cannot get ADSL and WiMAX is not available in our area yet. So we are left with the options of iBurst (also shocking signal) and Neotel (which is expensive and limiting).
Fantastic. This makes me very happy. It makes me so happy, in fact, that next time I see a billboard advertising “The Best Broadband in South Africa”, I am going to ram my car into it’s base and topple it on the office of the telecommunications giant in it’s shadow, killing all the fat-cat executives!!!! Those bastards lied to us. This is not broadband.
Bring back dial-up, all is forgiven.
Jon Bishop’s fantastic Scroobl describes my position perfectly.
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January 23rd, 2009 at 20:28
Please, for the love of all things holy and biblical, do NOT ram your effing car into the billboard. Insurance companies are a bitch to work with. Ask me, I know all about it.
How about GPRS off your phone, does that work? I’m not completely in the loop as to why 3G has no signal when your phone surely does? Can vodakak not come out and see what the issue is?
January 24th, 2009 at 04:58
@SheBee Hehe, no worries… My car’s too small anyway, would leave a smoking miniture wreck while the billboard stood proudly, mocking me.
I can barely get ceelphone signal at my house with MTN and I have to stand at the very edge of my eck and lean out like a moron to get Vodacom signal.
I think the solution is to move… to on top of the Vodaworld building!