Telkom has confirmed its Do Gaming add-on has been discontinued, saying that changes introduced by some console manufacturers has made the product unviable.<\/p>\n
Confirmation\u00a0that the add-on is no more comes after Telkom launched a new version of its My Telkom portal, revamping the design and merging some of the features of disparate user portals.<\/p>\n
Among the changes was the mention of an\u00a0Integrated Data Wallet<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for Telkom Internet SoftCap subscribers, and the disappearance of the Do Gaming add-on.<\/p>\n The Do Gaming add-on offered Telkom\u2019s SoftCap ADSL subscribers uncapped gaming traffic from services such as Steam, Battle.net, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live for R49 per month<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile many of our customers enjoyed the add-on offering when it was first launched, changes on the online gaming portals of some of the console providers, such as the PS4 and Xbox One, have rendered the product unviable,<\/em>\u201d said Telkom.<\/p>\n Telkom said peer-to-peer distribution is being used for new games on the consoles, making it difficult to differentiate gaming-related traffic from other traffic.<\/p>\n \u201cDifferentiation of gaming traffic was vital in order to zero-rate data usage that should have been accounted for as part of a Do Gaming bundle,<\/em>\u201d said Telkom.<\/p>\n It said many games generate traffic outside of their respective networks for HTML content such as scoreboards, in-game videos, and other media which gets pushed from the game developers\u2019 servers.<\/p>\n \u201cThis resulted in our customers\u2019 gaming traffic being accounted for on their normal SoftCap.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Cheapest methods to use the Internet in South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n ADSL for as little as R79 per month: Best 1Mbps and 8Mbps prices<\/a><\/p>\n Most affordable uncapped ADSL deals in South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThis article originally appeared on MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n
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