From: D.M. Procida on
SM <info(a)that.sundog.co.uk> wrote:

> > > When I was taken to casualty strapped to a board after a(nother) rear
> > > end car shunt last autumn the nurse asked if I'd had any falls lately,
> > > were there any pets at home etc. - a lovely little peak into the future.
> >
> > Watch out for that telltale transition from "falling" to having "a
> > fall"....
>
> That was the question - apparently one questionnaire for everyone.

Oh, no! Not the old one-questionnaire-for-everyone-routine?

Daniele
From: SM on
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:

> > That was the question - apparently one questionnaire for everyone.
>
> Oh, no! Not the old one-questionnaire-for-everyone-routine?

Done in the style of a bingo caller for anyone within earshot - the
first to get a line moves to triage.

Stuart
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From: Jon B on
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> On 29/01/2010 12:17, Geoff Berrow wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:00:15 +0000, me9(a)privacy.net (Bella Jones)
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Still tossing up between O2 and voda.
> >
> > I'm with O2, daughter is with Voda.
> >
> > Voda seems to have much better coverage.
>
> I would imagine it depends on the area but in general I would assume
> they do. Do they have the visual voicemail and data plans?
>
> I have noticed since having an iPhone that my texting rate has shot up
> as it works much better - do they give you enough of that?

That an there is no indication of how long your text is. I used to be
very careful to stick to 160char in a text, but now I have ample
headroom and if it is a long text it gets sent regardless.
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From: zoara on
Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote:
> zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I'd recommend getting a lower tariff than you think you want.
> > They'll happily let you upgrade to a higher-priced tariff right away
> > if
> > you chose the wrong one, but you'd have to wait a while to
> > downgrade.
> > There would always be expenses in choosing the wrong tariffs, but I
> > reckon they'd work out to be less by choosing a too-low tariff than
> > a
> > too-high one.
>
> Although you do need to keep an eye on your usage. My wife's first
> monthly bill on her new phone (a few years ago now) covered the weeks
> when we moved house and had no landline. She'd used up her included
> minutes and every call after that was 45p/minute. We got stung for
> close
> on £200 for one month - ouch.

My wife went from a pay-as-you-go tariff to the iPhone, and interpreted
the 600 minutes as "unlimited" (because who would get through ten hours
of calls on a mobile after being used to watching every minute on
PAYG?).

She ended up with a similar-sized bill.

-zoara-

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From: Woody on
Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote:

> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 29/01/2010 12:17, Geoff Berrow wrote:
> > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:00:15 +0000, me9(a)privacy.net (Bella Jones)
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Still tossing up between O2 and voda.
> > >
> > > I'm with O2, daughter is with Voda.
> > >
> > > Voda seems to have much better coverage.
> >
> > I would imagine it depends on the area but in general I would assume
> > they do. Do they have the visual voicemail and data plans?
> >
> > I have noticed since having an iPhone that my texting rate has shot up
> > as it works much better - do they give you enough of that?
>
> That an there is no indication of how long your text is.

I find that a bit of a pain, as a friend of mine had an old phone that
wouldn't recieve a multi-part text. Ie, not just not get the first part,
just get a blank text.

Luckily she has just broken her phone and got an iPhone, so I guess it
is not a pain anymore!

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