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Dear Cell C, you suck

You charged me a R114 connection fee, but it’s been six days since I signed a contract with you, and my cellphone number still has not been ported from Virgin Mobile. I paid, but you didn’t do the work. This morning the Virgin SIM stopped working, so now my friends and co-workers cannot reach me. [...]

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2012 04 18 Simeon Miteff General Comments (0)

RSAWeb (sort of) responds

Shortly after my post revealing that RSAWeb (among others) provide hosting for known South African spammers, I got an email from their Technical Director, Mark Slingsby, asking how recent my lookups were1, and requesting me to name the offenders2 so that his sysadmin team can follow up. I replied with a detailed response, noting that [...]

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2010 02 18 Simeon Miteff General
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Technical Comments (0)

ISP Fail: FNBConnect and Internet Solutions. Who screwed up?

The /16 route being announced by First National Bank’s new IPConnect ADSL-based consumer ISP, FNBCONNECT (AS37028) disappeared from the Internet Solutions (AS3741) local routing table somewhere between last week Wednesday (2009/08/12) and Friday (2009/08/14). It seems their transit via First National Bank’s own network went down. FNB, in turn, buys transit via IS and MTN [...]

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2009 08 17 Simeon Miteff Technical Comments (2)

ISP Fail: Private ASN on the Verizon/IS peering link

Spotted on local-route-server.is.co.za today: * 41.203.16.0/22 168.209.255.8 0 3741 2905 65419 i * 41.203.20.0/23 168.209.255.8 0 3741 2905 65419 i * 41.203.22.0/23 168.209.255.8 0 3741 2905 65419 i * 41.203.24.0/21 168.209.255.8 0 3741 2905 65419 i * 41.204.216.0/22 168.209.255.8 0 3741 2905 65419 i * 41.204.220.0/23 168.209.255.8 0 3741 2905 65419 i * 196.22.132.0/22 168.209.255.8 [...]

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2009 05 27 Simeon Miteff Technical Comments (4)

Because DOC policy is working so well for us…

As if they haven’t caused enough problems already, the DOC plans to help our friends in Zimbabwe fly their communications sector into a hillside too! The Department of Communications (DOC) says SA will use its position as the chair of SADC to drive ICT issues in the region, in particular Zimbabwe. “Our ICT intellectual affairs [...]

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2008 09 19 Simeon Miteff Regulatory Comments (0)