Ouch! Big Phone Bill
You'll never guess what my dumb butt did!
I have a Broadband connection which I lost the connection to in June. The ADSL company I was with (CPBB) didn't inform me that they had sold out to another company (Fast 24), and they just switched all the details. It took me a few days to get through to them on the phone and sort things out.
In those days I used my mobile phone to connect to the internet. I am with T-Mobile, and have 100 free minutes to use up. I hardly ever get anywhere near using that amount up during the course of the month.
Anyway, instead of connecting through the modem part of the phone to access the internet at 9600 bps (or whatever speed it is), I must have used the GPRS to connect by mistake. Big Big mistake! :(
I have the phone bill today. I have used up app 5 minutes of my 100 minutes call time. I connected to the internet through GPRS instead of through the modem of the mobile phone.
Call Costs £18 app Texts etc £4 app Mobile Data £87 app Standard Calls 50 pence app
Total Damage including VAT, just short of £129.
I believe there is one modem number listed in the standard calls section, so I must have connected via Modem at some stage.
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OH God! I have just thought! All the alcohol I could have bought :( My sadness deepens :(
John
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