Ouch! Big Phone Bill!
 

You'll never guess what my dumb ass did!

I have a Broadband connection which I lost the connection to in June.
The ADSL company I was with (CPBB) didn't inform me that they had sold
out to another company (Fast 24), and they just switched all the
details. It took me a few days to get through to them on the phone
and sort things out.

In those days I used my mobile phone to connect to the internet. I am
with T-Mobile, and have 100 free minutes to use up. I hardly ever get
anywhere near using that amount up during the course of the month.

Anyway, instead of connecting through the modem part of the phone to
access the internet at 9600 bps (or whatever speed it is), I must have
used the GPRS to connect by mistake. Big Big mistake! :(

I have the phone bill today. I have used up app 5 minutes of my 100
minutes call time. I connected to the internet through GPRS instead
of through the modem of the mobile phone.

Call Costs £18 app
Texts etc £4 app
Mobile Data £87 app
Standard Calls 50 pence app

Total Damage including VAT, just short of £129.

I believe there is one modem number listed in the standard calls
section, so I must have connected via Modem at some stage.

13,981 KB of Mobile Data for £87. When will a Mobile Phone company
offer High Speed Internet Access for reasonable prices? And not just
those crappy WAP sites via your phone either? What about the real
thing on a bigger screen?

Who wants to pay a few hundred for a 2mp Sony Ericsson Camera phone
when you can have a proper digital camera with 7mp for the same price
or less? Are there any others who think mobile phones are a rip-off
at the moment?

Next time I will have to be prepared for anything like this and have
the backup of a dial-up number via 56k modem, and preferably a local
number to dial into in case I ever need to use my mobile. I didn't
have 56k dial-up access, that's why I used my mobile this time, just
the wrong part of the bloody thing unfortunately.

OH God! I have just thought! All the alcohol I could have bought :(
My sadness deepens :(

John

Re: Ouch! Big Phone Bill!
 

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:19:26 +0100, Sniffer-Dog <tfib@tfiw.com> wrote:
>13,981 KB of Mobile Data for £87. When will a Mobile Phone company
>offer High Speed Internet Access for reasonable prices?

Orange (pay monthly) with World Access 10 that would have come in at
£10.92, with WA4 £13.66, or on PAYU £30.31. PAYG at £4/Mb with the PAYG
version of WA4 would have totalled £42.61 or £54.61 without the bundle.

Even Virgin Mobile would have been < £70 (just!). To add insult to injury
they use the same infrastructure as T-Mobile.

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Re: Ouch! Big Phone Bill!
 

Sniffer-Dog wrote:
> OH God! I have just thought! All the alcohol I could have bought :(
> My sadness deepens :(


T-mobile are a ripp off, UNLESS you get a data allowence - in which case
they're not bad at all.

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Visit http://www.iMarc.co.uk/ for contact information and reviews.

Re: Ouch! Big Phone Bill!
 

My friends boyfriend also was in the same situation, los their broadband due
to moving.
He decided to use the internet via his mobile, well.
After a week into his new billing month, he received a phone call from
vodafone telling him his bill was up to £850.

Data transfer isnt the cheapest on vodafone as you can tell, but its not
cheap on anynetwork.

I am guessing he was connecting via 3G as well making things worse.

Stuart
"Marc" <see@signature.url> wrote in message
news:1122366689.7921.1@doris.uk.clara.net...
> Sniffer-Dog wrote:
>> OH God! I have just thought! All the alcohol I could have bought :(
>> My sadness deepens :(
>
>
> T-mobile are a ripp off, UNLESS you get a data allowence - in which case
> they're not bad at all.
>
> --
> Marc
> Visit http://www.iMarc.co.uk/ for contact information and reviews.

Re: Ouch! Big Phone Bill!
 

"Sniffer-Dog" <tfib@tfiw.com> wrote in message
news:v1sae11bgofvaa54s2g86ogl1eermk1t0o@4ax.com...
> You'll never guess what my dumb ass did!
>
> I have a Broadband connection which I lost the connection to in June.
> The ADSL company I was with (CPBB) didn't inform me that they had sold
> out to another company (Fast 24), and they just switched all the
> details. It took me a few days to get through to them on the phone
> and sort things out.
>
> In those days I used my mobile phone to connect to the internet. I am
> with T-Mobile, and have 100 free minutes to use up. I hardly ever get
> anywhere near using that amount up during the course of the month.
>
> Anyway, instead of connecting through the modem part of the phone to
> access the internet at 9600 bps (or whatever speed it is), I must have
> used the GPRS to connect by mistake. Big Big mistake! :(
>
> I have the phone bill today. I have used up app 5 minutes of my 100
> minutes call time. I connected to the internet through GPRS instead
> of through the modem of the mobile phone.
>
> Call Costs £18 app
> Texts etc £4 app
> Mobile Data £87 app
> Standard Calls 50 pence app
>
> Total Damage including VAT, just short of £129.
>
> I believe there is one modem number listed in the standard calls
> section, so I must have connected via Modem at some stage.
>
> 13,981 KB of Mobile Data for £87. When will a Mobile Phone company
> offer High Speed Internet Access for reasonable prices? And not just
> those crappy WAP sites via your phone either? What about the real
> thing on a bigger screen?
>
> Who wants to pay a few hundred for a 2mp Sony Ericsson Camera phone
> when you can have a proper digital camera with 7mp for the same price
> or less? Are there any others who think mobile phones are a rip-off
> at the moment?
>
> Next time I will have to be prepared for anything like this and have
> the backup of a dial-up number via 56k modem, and preferably a local
> number to dial into in case I ever need to use my mobile. I didn't
> have 56k dial-up access, that's why I used my mobile this time, just
> the wrong part of the bloody thing unfortunately.
>
> OH God! I have just thought! All the alcohol I could have bought :(
> My sadness deepens :(
>
> John
>

**** the mobile phone for internet, bin it.