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Canadian man recieves $85,000 mobile phone bill |
belialwafu
Joined: Jun 01, 2007
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From: Texting Capital of the World
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didnt the network told him that there is an extra charge?
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Cycovision
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From: England
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Not in so many words. He upgraded his phone and took out a new contract but did not read the small print, like many of us...
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zirkie101
Joined: Oct 08, 2007
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From: Cape Town, SA
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Daylight robbery to say the least!
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Miss UK
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Poor guy bet he choked on his morning coffee after opening that 
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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I'll explain a few things....
"Unlimited" is a term used by mobile networks to get people on board, they are "unlimited" to a certain extent, there will be a fair use policy, take Orange's "unlimited" text offer on Dolphin 35, there is a limit of 10,000 texts a month, the logic behind this being that anymore than that and some other instrument is being used, such as a PC, and therefore the mobile isn't doing what it was designed to do, 10,000 messages by the way is 13 an hour, 24 hours a day for the whole month, Which is why the Canadian network offer "unlimited" browsing via the phone, the phone by itself won't download numerous GBs of data. While I agree that they shouldn't be advertised as "unlimited" if they are not, if they were to be unlimited, you would get certain clowns that would take the preverbal pi$$, such as using your mobile as a modem to connect to the internet then proceed to download god knows how much data, as I said, the unlimited SMS, it's fairly easy to set up a PC to use your mobile as a gateway, post in online et voila you have the chance to send millions of messages a month.
networks unfortunately have to cover their arses and offering "unlimited" things that have a limit is one way of doing it..
It's all about wording though.. While at Orange I never sold Dolphin with unlimited texts, I sold it with 10,000 texts...
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deluded
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@fatreg, I do understand what you mean. Couldn't they simply advertise it as 10,000 free texts for instance, as you did when you were at Orange instead of "unlimited" as it clearly isn't. Of course, it does help to attract customers, but isn't that a form of deception? Or are they actually allowed to do so legally? How can a telco be allowed to redefine the meaning of "unlimited", seems pretty absurd to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm just really curious about it. Cheers!
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razec
Joined: Aug 20, 2006
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From: Pearl of the Orient Seas
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$85,000! 
 now i found something that sucks more than my current network operator does!
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Muhammad-Oli
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From: The NZ of L
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Hahahaha bad luck to him! Exactly why I'm not on a plan... I kept getting charged more than I expected.
I have known for ages that once you are almost out of credit on your prepay account here in NZ, you can use the last few cents to browse the internet for ages and you don't get charged provided you don't put more credit on your account for a day.
So I connected my laptop to my phone and downloaded heaps until I started getting told by my phone that I had no service.
I then went into my local Vodafone store and asked what was up and they said that because of their extremely high data prices for prepay, I had used over $10000NZ worth of internet which surpassed their "decent usage" rules.
So they cancelled my prepay number. The Vodafone guy really didn't give a crap though so he sold me a new prepay number and off I went.
AND I don't have to pay! The good thing about prepay is the "pre" bit. They can't charge me for the internet usage at all! Heh heh.
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JC08
Joined: Jan 07, 2007
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From: Vanderbijlpark, South Africa
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Damn, thank goodness its not me!!!
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NightBlade
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From: Nessebar, Bulgaria
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spikeyjac
Joined: May 30, 2006
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From: west yorkshire! Mobile: w890i
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Fatreg when i got tht contract, i got told it had a fair usage policy of 3000?
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fatreg
Joined: Jul 26, 2003
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very possibly!
I left Orange a year ago this month!
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themarques
Joined: Jan 26, 2003
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From: London, Tokyo,
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Firstly if I was him I would refuse to pay the bill full stop. Citing the reason that a network should have some form of credit scoring or should I say a cap on how much one's bill can go before its deeming a problem.
Alot of networks here in the UK have this that when you hit your credit limit they terminate calls this is also done incase someone has stolen your phone and is running up a massive bill so it protects both parties.
So how they could have allowed such a bill especially on there home network not even roaming where the charges come in a little late is beyond me.
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Xen0nflash
Joined: Jun 09, 2006
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. I WON! It looks like a smiley pyramid
Wonder how that guy felt when he saw his bill...
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