ADSL South Africa - Bandwidth Theft

This section of ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) is dedicated to the importance of combatting bandwidth theft in the building of a consumer friendly telecoms regime.

Bandwidth theft has become a serious problem in the world today. This thievery doesn't only cost affected consumers money, since bandwidth cost money, but it helps to undermine the credibility of the Internet and influence the decision of many people negatively when it comes to whether they should transact online or not. This makes the combatting of bandwidth theft essential.

ADSL South Africa (Broadband South Africa) is of the opinion that any successful anti-bandwith theft strategy should be build on a strong education platform. In other words, consumers should be informed about bandwidth theft and provided with up-to-date info to effectively combat it. Education in this regard should start at school level.

Believe it nor not, but something as simple as changing your password after signing up with an Internet Access Provider, can help to combate bandwidth theft. This will eliminate the risk of illegal access to your account through the use of a list of routers/modems with default passwords.