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From: Mark on 11 Jun 2010 05:30 Others to follow. Although of course, there's unlimited and then there's unlimited. A victim of their own success (or rather, the customers are the victims of their success?) I find this hard to believe: "O2 has said that the changes will affect just 3% of its 21m customers, who will have to pay additional charges for their data use. "That 3% are using something like 36% of the data capacity of O2's network," said Mr Wood. "If O2 get it right, everybody will get a better service." " <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10285910.stm> Cheers ... Mark
From: Woody on 11 Jun 2010 05:34 On 11/06/2010 10:30, Mark wrote: > Others to follow. Although of course, there's unlimited and then there's > unlimited. A victim of their own success (or rather, the customers are the > victims of their success?) I think it is good that we are getting to an age where maybe we can reclaim the word 'unlimited' to mean 'not having limits'. Truth is, o2 never had unlimited data, and now they are admitting it. I hope others follow. > I find this hard to believe: > > "O2 has said that the changes will affect just 3% of its 21m customers, who > will have to pay additional charges for their data use. I find that easy to believe. I doubt many people go over 500m of data on their phones. However, it shows that they were rather stupid if they didn't factor that in. > "That 3% are using something like 36% of the data capacity of O2's network," > said Mr Wood. "If O2 get it right, everybody will get a better service." " That is a lie. If o2 improved the service, everyone would get a better service. -- Woody
From: Mark on 11 Jun 2010 05:40 On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:34:33 +0100, Woody wrote (in article <87ee99Fd6tU2(a)mid.individual.net>): > On 11/06/2010 10:30, Mark wrote: >> Others to follow. Although of course, there's unlimited and then there's >> unlimited. A victim of their own success (or rather, the customers are the >> victims of their success?) > > I think it is good that we are getting to an age where maybe we can > reclaim the word 'unlimited' to mean 'not having limits'. > Truth is, o2 never had unlimited data, and now they are admitting it. I > hope others follow. > >> I find this hard to believe: >> >> "O2 has said that the changes will affect just 3% of its 21m customers, who >> will have to pay additional charges for their data use. > > I find that easy to believe. I doubt many people go over 500m of data on > their phones. > However, it shows that they were rather stupid if they didn't factor > that in. > Ah - 3% is 600,000 or so then. So, yup - you're right. >> "That 3% are using something like 36% of the data capacity of O2's network," >> said Mr Wood. "If O2 get it right, everybody will get a better service." " > > That is a lie. If o2 improved the service, everyone would get a better > service. > Mark
From: Richard Tobin on 11 Jun 2010 05:51 In article <87ee99Fd6tU2(a)mid.individual.net>, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >I find that easy to believe. I doubt many people go over 500m of data on >their phones. In nearly two years, I have used a total of 157MB. I might be better off paying by the megabyte instead of paying 10 pounds a month for the bolt-on as I currently do. -- Richard
From: Woody on 11 Jun 2010 06:02
On 11/06/2010 10:51, Richard Tobin wrote: > In article<87ee99Fd6tU2(a)mid.individual.net>, > Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> I find that easy to believe. I doubt many people go over 500m of data on >> their phones. > > In nearly two years, I have used a total of 157MB. > > I might be better off paying by the megabyte instead of paying 10 > pounds a month for the bolt-on as I currently do. I have used 1.4GB, but I don't know in what period that is in. Appears to be in the same time as I have used 3 days and 21 hours talk time. Although I was thinking of getting spotify, so that might change. -- Woody |