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From: Woody on 22 Mar 2010 08:39 SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > I thought I couldn't do it for a while after getting it on pay > > > > > monthly. Either way, it's too late to do this now. > > > > > > > > Why - are you there yet? > > > > > > Takes up to 14 days. > > > > > > I've just put in for mine now. > > > > I tried, the form messed up trying! > > Their webservers are buggered, it took ages to get anything done. Well, the first time it dropped half way through, so I just hit refresh. When i got to the end of the form and hit submit it went to another page saying 'what is your question about' > I'm 10 months into my 12 months free data on PAYG, but haven't really > used it - an unlocked phone is much more useful to me. It is a useful thing to have when travelling. I can put my Louisiana AT&T sim in it! -- Woody
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Mar 2010 08:42 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > That is only on pay as you go, not pay monthly My mistake. For some reason, I thought Bella said she was on PAYG. I should have thought for 5 secs and realised this was inconcievable. -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Mar 2010 08:47 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > My mistake. For some reason, I thought Bella said she was on PAYG. I > should have thought for 5 secs and realised this was inconcievable. Or, even more unlikely, that it was inconceivable. -- Peter
From: Bella Jones on 22 Mar 2010 08:49 Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote: > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Hugh Browton <useneth@**.not.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > DO NOT TURN ON DATA ROAMING. > > > > > > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8576941.stm> puts some numbers on > > > it. > > > > Great, thanks everyone. > > > > It shows how little i travel, really. In Greece last year I checked > > email only, each day a couple of times, out of ritual really, and there > > was def an addition to my bill. Also in Italy the year before. I was > > amazed how much it was for such a tiny time online. I mean, not a lot of > > money in itself, but worrying when potentially multiplied. > > > > Previous trips I didn't have a smartphone. > > On my old N95, just checking the emails would use around 1-3mb a month, > so not to bad, but the iPhone downloads much more of the content, so > more data usage. With all the push notifications on it'd be very easy to > download a lot more than you realise. > > In prefs/general/usage you can check how much data you've shifted over > cellular to give you an inkling, though first month data is usually > high. Yes - my old HTC phone did very basic downloads. Iphone will be v different. -- bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
From: J. J. Lodder on 22 Mar 2010 09:55
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-03-22, J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > >> > >> Good point, I'd forgotten about answering machines. I've never really got > >> the hang of the whole dial-in-and-listen-to-your-messages bit. > > > > You needed a bleeper to generate the DTFM tones. > > Pulse dialing (or singing) didn't work, > > Uhuh. I've personally never really had a need for it. It came free with the answering machine. Rarely had to use it, but when we had to it was very useful indeed, All pre-mobile of course, Jan |