EXORBITANT CHARGES

On July 7 I bought a Telkom 3G modem and 2GB of data. I used it that night to only check emails and went to the Unisa website. I was floored when the next morning I discovered I had no more data. I have been using MTN for the last two years during that time I worked as a journalist, meaning I did lots of research online. But on MTN 3GB of data would last me a month and probably roll over. So it was surprising how on Telkom I could suddenly go through 2GB in a matter of few hours. <br> The other day when I had left the modem plugged into my laptop with NO website open, I returned to find that I had lost 498 MB of data within 12 minutes, just because I left it idle. It explains a great deal of what happened last month and I feel like Telkom is robbing people blind- whatever it is they are doing to consume data quite so fast- IT IS WRONG. In fact ICASA should investigate and stop them. Data that I have paid for cannot just evaporate like that without me using it. That is ****************