Comments on: Did Vodacom break their mobile internet?

By: Inferius

Inferius — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:14:46 +0000

Thanks Vodacom! Because of this, I can’t access videos on YouTube Mobile! From what I’ve heard, they blocked the RTSP protocol. THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY LIFE MISERABLE!

By: james (mjelly)

james (mjelly) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:25:40 +0000

is this still a problem or have they fixed it?

By: Henk Kleynhans

Henk Kleynhans — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:00:02 +0000

JBagley, the problem isn’t websites really… It’s applications such as Fring, Youtube etc that are affected!

By: IZZY

IZZY — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:31:50 +0000

Mobile web surfing has been messed up on vodacom!
Websites you are view will not always be up to date due the proxy caching information.

99% of sites will not be accessible in their original format. It will be impossible for vodacom to compile a list of all the sites in the world that should work on this new proxy.

Mobile banking has come to a halt due to the proxy. Secure login is not possible any more and google maps is blocked for some odd reason.

The sites that do work all have a silly vlive banner that takes up valuable webpage space, and only certain content is visible.

I went to http://www.google.co.za now and it just said page unavailable. That is impossible as google is never down. That proves vodacom is caching / redirecting ALL websites!!!!

This is wrong and VODACOM has not given its clients the option to opt in or out of this stupid idea!

By: FlintZA

FlintZA — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:28:24 +0000

I really can understand the rationale behind this move, but sure just a basic test with a handful of popular sites on common handsets would have shown the system wasn’t ready to go live?

By: JBagley

JBagley — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:01:02 +0000

Aaah! I know see what you mean hey. When I browse with my native Samsung browser there is a Voda banner at the top! Eish.

Although opera mini works 100% still.

By: Nic

Nic — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:38:41 +0000

TheBagley - seems as though Fring is having issues too, Have a look see

By: JBagley

JBagley — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:18:20 +0000

Eh? Not too sure this is true hey.

I’ve been browsing sites, twitter and the likes the whole weekend on my phone and all is fine.

The email reads like one of those pass along nonsense emails.

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By: EchoZA

EchoZA — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:10:10 +0000

So, how do Blackberry Curve users fix this? I got my new phone and now cannot even surf the web because VODACOM thinks they have the right to choose how I view things!!!