A man after me own heart .... the billing cycle is of course attached to the SIM card, that's what's so frightening. I have speculated that HUAWEI might build-in voice back-doors that listened through the laptop microphones. One for Area 51 heh heh.
I'd still like to know the rolling cost to the BBC of the HD streaming service, the reason is that I might prefer the money to be spent on the creative programming which the BBC does so well but so little these days. Regards, Nico Morrison 2009/4/20 Paul Battley <[email protected]>: > 2009/4/18 Nico Morrison <[email protected]>: >> Heads up on that, I go home for iPlayer & my 24Mb/s Be connection. But >> the roaming 3G+ convenience is too good to be without. Someone write a >> HUAWEI traffic alerting system & make some money please. All the >> dongles use the same chipset. > > It might be better just to scrape the telco's web interface using > WWW::Mechanize or equivalent (assuming that they have one; I know 3 > does). You can be sure that it matches up with billing cycles and > different devices - and their measurement is the one that really > matters. > >> And all the telcos gouge their customers, so what's new? > > I notice that 3 are offering 15GB for £15/month. £1 a gigabyte is > pretty good value. But overage is charged at 10p/MB - that's £100 per > GB. A hundred times the cost! How anyone can devise these punitive, > sleazy, grasping pricing structures and still have any kind of self > respect is a mystery to me. > > .. And that's why I have a pre-pay dongle. > > Paul. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
