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pmvForum | | £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 12:39pm UTC) | | This guy downloaded 20 TV shows/films using his phone as a connection for his PC:
Quote: In fact, it [his contract] only covered a measly 120Mb of downloads a month. That said, after he exceeded the amount, Vodafone started charging him at an extortionate rate, sometimes up to £18 per minute.
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pmwww | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 12:43pm UTC) | | £18 a minute? Jesus Christ....
Though part of me thinks it's a bit stupid using a phone as a makeweight connection for that length of time. | |
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pmvForum | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 12:45pm UTC) | | Yeah, to check emails or something is fine... but for downloading!  | |
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pmmsnyahooaim | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 12:49pm UTC) | | | Even for emails that would hurt o,o | |
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pmvForum | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 12:50pm UTC) | | | Well no, because the thing is (if you read the article) he had some download included in his contract. That amount he surpassed quickly. Checking emails, you wouldn't surpass that amount. | |
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pmmsnyahooaim | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 12:52pm UTC) | | | Well, true, but if he gets a lot of spam that has a lot of images.. Maybe? | |
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pmwww | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 12:55pm UTC) | | It all depends on the download limit he has. I check my emails on my phone a bit and it costs...10p a min. I've not yet passed my quota on just emails. Probably will at some point though  | |
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pmmsnyahooaim | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 12:56pm UTC) | | Quote: In fact, it [his contract] only covered a measly 120Mb of downloads a month. That said, after he exceeded the amount, Vodafone started charging him at an extortionate rate, sometimes up to £18 per minute. | |
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pmvForum | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 12:58pm UTC) | | That's loads to check your emails..
that's 4Mb a day! | |
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pmmsnyahooaim | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 1:07pm UTC) | | That's loads to check your emails.. that's 4Mb a day!
Hehe I usually get 4 MB of GMail... half is spam though, a fourth YouTube comments, and the other just randoms | |
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pmvForum | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 1:08pm UTC) | | | But you don't download all of those emails to your phone in 1 day! | |
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pmwww | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 3:55pm UTC) | | | What is £27,000 in U.S. Currency? $27,000? | |
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pmwwwmsngtalk | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 4:00pm UTC) | | | Thats insane! He has to be pretty stupid not to know he can't download a boat load of music and video without paying more than what his plan costs. | |
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pmwww | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 4:01pm UTC) | | What is £27,000 in U.S. Currency? $27,000?
Roughly $54,000. assuming that the rate of £1=$2 is about right. | |
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pmwwwmsngtalk | | Re: £27,000 Phone Bill (3rd Jan 08 at 4:12pm UTC) | | | I don't think its exactly 1-2, but yeah its about $54,000 which could buy some pretty nice stuff. | |
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