According to MTN's Chief Marketing Officer, they do not currently cap their GPRS (or 3G) connections -- he says they are throttled instead.
That said, I have not personally verified this with a test. On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:23 +0300, Rob Gipman wrote: > Yup MTN did and still does. Also on Wimax there is a Cap as you all > know so gprs/edge is next. > > I wonder tough how fast gprs/edge at MTN really is to download lets > say a 5GB torrent as it's not prioritized when voice needs the > capacity on the towers. > Rob > On 03/09/2010 03:04 PM, Mike Barnard wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Mark Tinka > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 March 2010 05:47:33 pm Mwirima Byaruhanga > > wrote: > > > > > I'm surprised they were not. > > > > > > Ditto! > > > > I was under the impression they already were. > > > > > > actually.. If I am not wrong.. they were on their CDMA, EDGE/GPRS > > network to 2GB. But with the speeds on these connection types, I > > doubt anyone ever hit a 2GB limit on them. I found about the 2GB one > > month when I was bringing down an ISO which was about 3GB. When I > > hit 2GB, much as I was able to connect.. the speeds were totally > > prohibitive. I called in and asked and was duly informed of the 2GB > > cap on CDMA and others :-(. But this was a while back... about 2 > > years back. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mike > > > > Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that > > one in > > a million chances happen 99% of the time. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > > --------------------------------------- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
