Wait a minute. Bob said some users are downloading 35GB a day on unlimited? Thats impossible. Seeing its capped at 512Kbps there is no way you will get 35GB in a day but about 5.5 GB is a more realistic figure... and thats on the high side. I guess someone needs to come out clean on this issue Steve ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Moses Muya" <mouzmuyer@gmail.com> | To: "Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> | Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 7:31:44 PM | Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Safaricom Unlimited Download Speeds | throttled to 10kbs | Someone did and the silence was deafening! What surprised me was that | Safaricom could change their services without prior notice and | pretend nothing was wrong with that! Oh,he also said users were | downloading 35Gb a day - beats me how that would happen n what | someone would do with that amount of data! | On 21 Apr 2012 18:19, "maina" < dmaishe@gmail.com > wrote: | | What did he mean by "abuse"? Someone should have asked him! | | | On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, stephen wanjau | | | < stevewanjau@wikimedia.or..ke > wrote: | | | > Bob tweeted last week that some users are abusing the unlimited | | > bundle.. | | | > | | | > On 4/21/12, Bernard Mwagiru < bmwagiru@gmail.com > wrote: | | | >> Someone should tweet Bob... | | | >> | | | >> ./bernard | | | >> | | | >> | | | >> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:01 PM, maina < dmaishe@gmail.com > | | >> wrote: | | | >> | | | >>> They changed their fair usage policy, eti if you hit 4.5GB you | | >>> are | | | >>> capped @ 128,which i think its not even 128 more like 32. | | | >>> | | | >>> Am also very affected, excruciating slow speeds! | | | >>> | | | >>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Allan O. < allayy@gmail.com > | | >>> wrote: | | | >>> > I too experinced the same this week | | | >>> > | | | >>> > --- | | | >>> > | | | >>> > On Apr 21, 2012 10:12 AM, "Jacob Ayienda" < | | >>> > jacobayienda@gmail.com > | | | >>> wrote: | | | >>> >> | | | >>> >> Can someone confirm this. After the first 500MBs the speed | | >>> >> dropped | | | >>> >> from 60KB/S to 10 KB/S and has not gone back to normal since | | >>> >> then. 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