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In South Africa all landline telephones are under the control of one single company that belongs to the State. This means that they get to call the shots 100% and no correspondence will be entered into ..... The shots they call are that a local telephone call which is what we use to connect to the internet is charged per second with costs that are something like $2.00 per minute. But this only applies in what they call "prime time" which is from 7am to 7pm. After 7pm it goes into "callmore time" which is 1/3 of the price ($0.67 per minute) for the first hour, i.e. $40.20 and thereafter it is free (provided you don't hang up or the first hour will apply again) until 7am, at which point prime time kicks in again. So ... using the internet while the sun is shining is out of the question in this country. Dial-up modem users can only use the internet from 7pm to 7am and even then it costs $40.20 per session. Therefore I maximise my time by working through the night and sleeping the next day. (retired, whoopee). I also only dial out twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. We would dearly like it to be otherwise, but a state monopoly is "Big Brother" and until there is a second operator in this country that can provide some healthy competition, we're stuck with it. In all fairness there have been some talks and negotiations regarding a second operator but every time some progress is made, the trade unions threaten to blow up the country. So, until further notice, you will be seeing me post at 4.00am. The Night Ranger. [C):-)]
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