See, we told you it was the era of the instanet. Mweb offers cheap uncapped ADSL, and all of a sudden businesses everywhere are freaking out, losing their heads in acts of reckless generosity as they bring South Africa up to speed with the global village.

Like Skyrove, who’ve gone and hooked Capetonians up with free, that’s right FREE wireless internet in Greenmarket square for the next six months.

“Goodness gracious!”, I hear you say. “But how much are they giving us!?” you exclaim with one of those half-question, half-statement things.

OK, get ready. Promise you won’t freak out. PROMISE.

Okay.

Ready? Here it is…

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10 megabytes. 10 MEGABYTES!!! Someone pinch me.

Wow, with that, I could almost afford to navigate to the Skyrove site to read up on their business, and how I too might make use of their services as a paying client.

Almost. But in between my cappucino and haggling with a hawker, I’d hit the 10 megabyte cap.

10 megabytes. Douchebags.

[source : MediaUpdate]