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On 2008-04-28 22:53:05, fatreg wrote:
On 2008-04-28 22:26:28, jcwhite_uk wrote:
I had never though about the cost of texts before. It does appear that we are being ripped off.
A text is less than 1kb is size, that's the equivalent of £102.40 per MB... and I'm not even a DR, but I worked that out! but yeah bearing in mind, texting was an offspring from the networks..
Didn't know that it only costs 10c to connect an European call to another European phone though (as in real cost, not what we pay)
According to the show it actually costs the eqivelent of £375 er MB.
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Posted: 2008-04-28 23:00:27
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hmmmm it could always be less than 1kb, but I don't do bytes....
is it not more than that though?
1K say....
1K *1024 = 1Kb
1024kb * 1024 = 1mb.....
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Posted: 2008-04-28 23:05:55
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The senerio they where redreing to in the program was to send the message via the hubel space telescope-how that relates to texting I'm not sure-clasic case of making the story meatier!
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Posted: 2008-04-28 23:36:22
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They were comparing costs. It is cheaper per MB to send pictures from th Hubble Space telescope than it is to send an SMS. They were not saying to send the message via Hubble.
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Posted: 2008-04-28 23:56:55
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Dispatches, like Watchdog, just keep running out of topics so they spin things and blow them out of proportion to keep their viewers. Companys are out to make money, the end customer always gets the bum deal, the world keeps spinning, get over it, thats what I say.
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Posted: 2008-04-28 23:57:32
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Yeah most of it was stuff we knew already but i would never ever have bought a contract from some dodgy back street retailer. I never trust them would only ever buy from known retailers plus cash back offers are always too good to be true. And i hate Phones4U totally incompetant company. I had a contract from them years back and it took them 2 months for my sim to be connected no joke. And i hate the way they hound you in store. You ask for pay as you go and then try and force a contract down your throat i detest it. If i wanted a contract i would have asked for it. And as for all this price fixing from the networks IM NOT SURPRISED.
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Posted: 2008-04-28 23:57:00
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can u lot check if its on V+ mine went down blasts!
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Posted: 2008-04-29 01:34:04
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Keep looking through the week programmes like this are always repeated some days later. Look at channel 4+1 or More 4.
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Posted: 2008-04-29 01:50:00
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Dispatches didnt actually seem keen to talk to the networks. The only time they tried to talk to them was at the Mobile World Congress where the network bods were really busy. Surely they could have arranged meetings with all the networks o give them a chance to respond.
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Posted: 2008-04-29 14:07:23
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On 2008-04-28 23:57:32, Daedalus85 wrote:
Dispatches, like Watchdog, just keep running out of topics so they spin things and blow them out of proportion to keep their viewers. Companys are out to make money, the end customer always gets the bum deal, the world keeps spinning, get over it, thats what I say.
i guess you work for one of these thieving companies then?
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Posted: 2008-04-30 00:37:07
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