@ndungu,<br><br><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">handshakes takes about 75% of data, while actual internet data delivered or sent is 5-15%</span></span><br>
<br>Is there a way of validating this?<br><br>As far as I know, &quot;handshake&quot;  (a.k.a control plane) is not even remotely comparable to data(user plane)...the handshakes hardly make a 10 bytes(and even that is an exaggeration), way before the billing system gets wind of your existence..<br>
<br><br><br>./bernard<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:58 PM, ndungu stephen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ndungustephen@gmail.com">ndungustephen@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">Guys, we have come to a conclusion that there is something wrong with the Safaricom data billing system...</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">

<br style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">Just the other day, i bought a 25mb bundle for 20/- ; then I got into Google-maps on iPhone to navigate from Nakumatt Junction to a road after Nakumatt Prestige called Kabarnet Rd..</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">

<br style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">And guess what, even after the map had loaded, and I was just staring at the blue dot - my 20mb got finished before I arrived at destination - which is quite odd.</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">

<br style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">Conclusion: I suspect that Safaricom charges for data handshake between the phone and the data core system; whereas they are supposed to charge for the actual payload received from the internet ::</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">

<br style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">Which in a math chart, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">handshakes takes about 75% of data, while actual internet data delivered or sent is 5-15%:</span>: be wary !!!<br>

<br>Try Orange data service et al<br style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 153)"></span>
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