Check my usage?
So I’m back in the land of the shit internet connection having returned via a super flight from Geneva.
Obviously, as the home of CERN, the internet connection in and around the city was ridiculously fast. Blink-and-it’s-on-screen. Now here I am back in shitsville, using a ‘2meg’ connection which is actually 8meg, but only 4.5meg ‘cos of the distance to the ……….oh who can be bothered.
I am seriously considering moving back into London. The slow speeds are driving me nuts. I do so much work online that I’m finding myself waiting for stuff to happen. All those 4-8 second waits are adding up.
Anyway,. to the purpose of this post: I logged on to Three once again to see whether I’d been nailed for that (almost) 2 hour international call yet.
For all the brilliant elements of Three (I know it’s Check-my-usage feature is much admired around the industry), it’s not quite what I need.
I wouldn’t have noticed this deficiency though, unless I’d potentially blown a hundred quid on an international call from Switzerland to the UK that I didn’t actually intend to make.
See the image. Everything’s there, except the extraordinary usage. I’m gonna call my friendly Three customer services person and ask them about the damage shortly.
Inter Operator Billing for roaming is still painfully slow I think! Even a few years ago some of them were still using faxed bills.
Jim
Posted by Jim Black on November 15th, 2006 at 6:44 pm.[...] So do you remember I was a total plonker whilst in Geneva and forgot to put my N73 on keypad lock and ended up dialing Three’s customer services repeatedly by mistake — with one of the calls lasting 1 hour 43 minutes? [...]
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