Especially the emails, resending me literally the same offer of a 5€ rebate per month five times is just offensive spam. The other ones were just variations of the same offer with different styling.
> Before I continue, I will answer the obvious question: Did I actually receive 999999 minutes? Yes, indeed I did. But unfortunately, I was only given 7200 minutes to spend my 999999 minutes and I could only spend them 1 minute at a time.
>For five days I had a million minutes and I was possibly the first and only Vodafone minute millionaire
I am more surprised that mobile plans are still charging by the minute. A "toll quality" 64kbps audio stream is 480KB per minute. More advanced codecs use a fraction of that.
At 50 Mbps, you can theoretically exhaust this in just over six days. At 1 Gbps, it takes less than eight hours.
Once shaped—a month of 1 Mbps is less than 335 GB.
So in practice all these unlimiteds boil down to less than 4TB/month.
It's vanishingly rare for me. I got a call from a friend today - but I think I otherwise only make or receive a legit phone call every few days. We use social media mostly. Work "calls" are on apps.
A family could probably get away with 2 phones easily, as long as they have home internet.
Now... When I was young and internet was over dial-up, having a single phone line for our whole family caused quite a lot of spats.
And while the amount is not a large one, it is still very suspicious this keeps going on, even after two very long calls with the support. I'm going to soon speak to the partner network, but it is appalling how much these people are not interested in who actually gives their enterprise money. They're only there to take it.
This seems like some sort of punishment those monks that stand in one place and pray until their feet wear holes in the floor would use. Mint Mobile is like $15 a month.
No, you're right.
If my choice were to worry about first-tier direct customers kicking me off cell towers at stadiums and public events, or worry about whether wife-husband-son SIM card would make it home in time for my work trip, it would be a pretty easy one.
“Hey, give people a billion dollars of credits for the next 17 seconds. Oh!, make it look like a mistake too!”
I only say this because there's no identifier to differenciate a real phone number from a test one. Subscribers often called to report those gibberish text messages they received. It's always a dev entering an incorrect number whole testing.
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