Mobile calls to claim benefits go free
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From: Graham. on 20 Jan 2010 06:51 "Steve Terry" <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote in message news:hj68g4$b54$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > "Graham." <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:hj2q1q$nfc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> >> "Lars Homestead" <lars.homestead(a)sky.com> wrote in message news:hj1gcb$ce6$1(a)news.albasani.net... >>> From: >>> http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_184160 > <snip> >>> Good idea but it's about time 0800 calls from mobiles were free anyway. >> >> I remember when they were free on one network One2one IIRC. >> >> > 121 ended free 0800 long before Orange which was the last, > although new Giffgaff on O2 have reintroduced them > It must have been Orange then. I can remember being impressed when a colleague had a PDA with free dial-up internet access. -- Graham. %Profound_observation%
From: Mike White on 20 Jan 2010 08:44 >>>> Good idea but it's about time 0800 calls from mobiles were free anyway. >>> >>> I remember when they were free on one network One2one IIRC. >>> >>> >> 121 ended free 0800 long before Orange which was the last, >> although new Giffgaff on O2 have reintroduced them >> > > It must have been Orange then. I can remember being impressed > when a colleague had a PDA with free dial-up internet access. > > Virgin Mobile had free 0800s for a while too. And so free dialup as you describe. Mike
From: R. Mark Clayton on 20 Jan 2010 09:27 "Steve Terry" <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote in message news:hj68g4$b54$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > "Graham." <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message > news:hj2q1q$nfc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> >> "Lars Homestead" <lars.homestead(a)sky.com> wrote in message >> news:hj1gcb$ce6$1(a)news.albasani.net... >>> From: >>> http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_184160 > <snip> >>> Good idea but it's about time 0800 calls from mobiles were free anyway. >> >> I remember when they were free on one network One2one IIRC. >> >> > 121 ended free 0800 long before Orange which was the last, > although new Giffgaff on O2 have reintroduced them > > Ironic as Cellnet / O2 had never offered free 0800 > (except to some special services) Maybe not free, but at least inclusive. > > Steve Terry > -- > Get a free Three 3pay Sim with �2 bonus after �10 top up > http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276 >
From: Steve Terry on 20 Jan 2010 09:35
"Mike White" <mikewhite(a)surrey.org> wrote in message news:hj71cb$3dh$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>>>> Good idea but it's about time 0800 calls from mobiles were free >>>>> anyway. >>>> >>>> I remember when they were free on one network One2one IIRC. >>>> >>>> >>> 121 ended free 0800 long before Orange which was the last, >>> although new Giffgaff on O2 have reintroduced them >> >> It must have been Orange then. I can remember being impressed >> when a colleague had a PDA with free dial-up internet access. >> > Virgin Mobile had free 0800s for a while too. And so free dialup as you > describe. > Mike > > Only for the first year, and then Virgin realised it was costing them money I used to use Orange for dial up, you could get 14.4k Steve Terry -- Get a free Three 3pay Sim with �2 bonus after �10 top up http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276 |