Cell Phones in Great Britain - Re: o2 and data charges

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Re: o2 and data charges

Chris Johns

2006-11-30, 4:33 am

Gerry \(The MOTH\)

2006-11-30, 4:33 am

Main reason I left O2 was over their pricing of GPRS, they kept charging me
for GPRS usage during the bl00dy night when I was asleep (& no it wasn't a
fault with my phone) and one day charged me £80 for one days use, strangely
it was the day after the 3 months free gprs useage ended. Used to have to
call them every month to get re-embursed the monies.

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Gerry (The MOTH)
"Chris Johns" <cmj@eh.org.invalid> wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2006, noSPicedhAM wrote:

> Standard "O2 Active" [ie Wap] data usage is charged at £3/Mb, for
> either Gprs or 3G access on current calling plans. See

Thats what I thought. I called them up, they were vaguely better than
useless, tho the woman tried to say that the usage from the previous month
would account for some of the difference (true, but not 10 quids worth!)

They're going to recalculate my bill, we'll see. I feel it'll be a bit of
a struggle to get anything back out of them.

Cheers

Chris
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Chris Johns

Gerry \(The MOTH\)

2006-11-30, 7:33 am

Ended up changing to 3, pay £15 per month on a VTT1400 contract (300 talk
mins, 50 Video mins, 1000 text, 50 MMS and Free MSN Messenger) with a free
Nokia N73 chucked in.
I work away and since moving from O2 now have broadband connection at night
to check emails so don't ready have the need to use phone for gprs which was
my main reason for using it. But 3 will transfer your isp email for £2.50pm
for 10MB and have full internet access for £5pm for 30MB. You also get 3mail
which is free to receive to the phone, but they charge a fortune to send.

If I know ones sending me stuff I really need to look at right away I just
ask them to CC a copy to my 3mail account and I can check it right away. N73
can read word, excel, pdf.

The 26MB was with a Nokia 6230, how they said I could have done that much I
don't know. Got fully refunded for it though after complaining and asking
for a detailed printout of my usage.

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Gerry (The MOTH)

"Chris Johns" <cmj@eh.org.invalid> wrote in message
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Gerry (The MOTH) wrote:

> Main reason I left O2 was over their pricing of GPRS, they kept charging
> me

Out of interest, who did you switch it? I've been with o2 for years now
(since Cellnet days) and i've never really had need to change, but this
might be it.

> for GPRS usage during the bl00dy night when I was asleep (& no it wasn't a
> fault with my phone) and one day charged me £80 for one days use,
> strangely

This is why, having got the last stupid bill of 200 quid, I reset the
data in/out counters, so I could tell how much GPRS I'd used.

> it was the day after the 3 months free gprs useage ended. Used to have to
> call them every month to get re-embursed the monies.

80 quid a day!? At 3 quid a meg, thats 26megs. Can GPRS actually do that
in a day?

I'll see what they say having recalculated the bill.
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Chris Johns

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