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You can't make this sort of thing up...

Postby Tomo » Dec 28th, '07, 01:34



Here's the story of a Darlington man who decided to download a few bits and bobs... using his mobile as a modem!

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/12/27 ... data_bill/

Seriously, that's expensive!

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Postby Beardy » Dec 28th, '07, 01:37

saw that in the paper...sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry!

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Postby Replicant » Dec 28th, '07, 12:32

Human stupidity knows no bounds. And ignorance is no excuse. Sometimes I wonder how these people get through life.

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Postby Mandrake » Dec 28th, '07, 16:11

And such people have the freedom to breed and vote.....

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Postby Lord Freddie » Dec 28th, '07, 16:16

As stupid as it sounds, sometimes these mobile phone companies break the trade descriptions act. Myself and a chum bought a phone called the Orange SPV a few years ago and it was advertised as having "unlimited" web access for only £5 a month.
Although we didn't connect it up to our pc and download tv programmes, we did what the young people would say "caned" it and ended up with a rather large bill.
After being told by Orange that the service was not unlimited, we advised them that we would take them to court for misleading and false advertising. Guess what? We both got a full refund and their advertising took a different tone from then on...

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Postby dat8962 » Dec 29th, '07, 03:19

I've been looking at mobile contracts for my daughter who is a text junkie and even with a little knowledge, it's still no easy job to pick the right plan, despite what you may think. Having gome into most mobile shops over Xmas they ALL were selling packages with free this and free that, including video etc. but not a single one made any mention of a fair useage policy. I doubt if asked that many of the sales people would actually explain what this means in laymen terms.

There is so much jargon as well as hidden extras - I think that it's sometimes all to easy to think that you have one service when in fact you have something totally different.

In this particular instance I agree that the guy should have known better than to use his mobile phone as a PC modem. After all, how many PC's are sold these days without a modem?

I suspect that he will have his bill reduced but will still be stung with a bill for a few thousand pounds. What is disapointing is that the Office of Fair Trading have had a number of attempts to get the mobile phone companies to be more transparent with their billing but little happens.

They're not too different to banks in my opinion, always looking for an opportunity to make money at every opportunity, regardless of whether it's fair or not.

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Postby Marvo Marky » Dec 29th, '07, 22:30

Has anyone here ever been to Darlington?

I have.

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