Unfortunately I am not one of the fortunate ones that have ADSL so I have to depend on my dial-up ISDN connection. I also have InfinityCall. For those that does not know, InfinityCall allow for calls to be capped at a maximum of R7.00 during callmore time.
Until about a month ago I had no problems about it. It was commons to go from Friday, 7pm until Monday, 7am with one call. No disconnect. Since a month or so ago the calls suddenly started to disconnect around midnight. The connection will stay up all day, but come midnight or just after it the call get disconnected. Imagine my iritation when getting up in the morning and finding the line disconnected after starting a big download the previous evening.
To put this in perspective. Assume that there is 10 000 InfinityCall users which now suddenly gets disconnected twice over a weekend. Now we have an extra R14.00 income per user which is R140 000.00 per weekend, bringing to a cool half a million rand extra income per month for Telkom.
My line does not have any problems on it. If it had it would have disconnected during the day also. This looks just too fishy for me. Telkom is trying to generate extra income while they can. If any other people have the same experience then please leave a comment here.
To read more about what Telkom is up too visit Hellkom or MyADSL.