Dazz 68
12-06-2010, 11:00 AM
I am chasing an Ipod touch for my youngest sons seventh bithday. If you have one in good nic and wish to sell I have the cash ready.
On the subject of things Apple after being on holidays I went back to work last tuesday and was greeted by my boss with a please explain. I work for a Telco and they provided me with a free promo phone so that we could show off all the cool things you can do with a smart phone on the the 3rd gen networks. I already have a free company phone so passed the sim card on to my oldest boy. Any way it appears he has been doing a great job of showing off the network and managed to clock up a $32000 bill in the last fours months . This is just a little more than the $500 a month limit we were asked to stick to . Needless to say I am not very impressed with him.Most of the cost was data usage . Fortunately it is unlikely that they will do any thing about it but if you have an I phone or similar it certainly pays to keep an eye on your data usage as the price per meg once you go over your data cap can be very expensive. It would appear the geniuses who gave us these free promo phones to show off the 3rd gen networks capabilities gave us a service with no data plan attached so even though his data usage was quite high the bill racked up a lot quicker than it should have . My carrier charges $2 per meg for every meg downloaded over the cap allowance , some are up to $25. Imagine if my son had have been with one of those networks and you did have to pay , the bill would have been over $400 000. I have heard a few horror stories of people clocking up massive charges with various networks and being stuck with the bill.
On the subject of things Apple after being on holidays I went back to work last tuesday and was greeted by my boss with a please explain. I work for a Telco and they provided me with a free promo phone so that we could show off all the cool things you can do with a smart phone on the the 3rd gen networks. I already have a free company phone so passed the sim card on to my oldest boy. Any way it appears he has been doing a great job of showing off the network and managed to clock up a $32000 bill in the last fours months . This is just a little more than the $500 a month limit we were asked to stick to . Needless to say I am not very impressed with him.Most of the cost was data usage . Fortunately it is unlikely that they will do any thing about it but if you have an I phone or similar it certainly pays to keep an eye on your data usage as the price per meg once you go over your data cap can be very expensive. It would appear the geniuses who gave us these free promo phones to show off the 3rd gen networks capabilities gave us a service with no data plan attached so even though his data usage was quite high the bill racked up a lot quicker than it should have . My carrier charges $2 per meg for every meg downloaded over the cap allowance , some are up to $25. Imagine if my son had have been with one of those networks and you did have to pay , the bill would have been over $400 000. I have heard a few horror stories of people clocking up massive charges with various networks and being stuck with the bill.