Remember the good old days when you reached an area with a free ZolSpot connection? You’d quickly enter your email address and get a whole half an hour of free internet, quickly make updates, send messages, emails or download a movie or two. Yes, you read that right? Good old days.
Perhaps you’ve also noticed that the access to that free internet has been very erratic of the past few weeks. People hadn’t been able to connect as they used to. Were these tell-tell signs of an abrupt and fast approaching end to this free service? Likely.
If you haven’t been to the ZOL page lately, this is what you must expect to see:
Notice the change? Instead of the standard 30-minutes free, enter your email address, you’re now supposed to enter a voucher code.
Could this move have been prompted by the “prevailing business climate” described by NetOne when they were justifying their extreme hike in data tariffs?