Well, well, well. Despite all it's community based fully charm, giffgaff is just another con. A few days ago I noticed my giffgaff balance had unexpectedly dropped by GBP5, so I sent an email requesting a refund. Surprise, surprise it transpires that giffgaff have charged me for an unrequested premium rate text message that was sent from a third party. I had hoped the premium rate text...

Some years ago I was with Orange PAYG, and ocasionally used their GPRS for access to the web and email. Problem is it was a complete rip off. Are Orange still a rip off for GPRS, or have they become better value these days? I am considering using them again, but only when I cannot get into the three network. How much are their costs these days for GPRS on PAYG? Thanks

If you are an O2 customer and over 13 you can get one of these, apparently without charges in the UK? http://money.o2.co.uk/cashmanager.html Being Visa you could then use it to top up a giffgaff (if you haven't any other Debit cards) Steve Terry -- Get a free Three 3pay Sim with £2 bonus after £10 top up

Anyone know if it's currently possible to suspend a contract on Orange? Having signed up to Vodafone with lots of minutes, my OVP-Virgin/ED50 line1/2 combo isn't being used as much as it once was (the 40p/min x-net being the killer), but I'd rather not cancel it just yet, especially as I won't be able to reinstate it if I do. So, is it possible to suspend it for 12 months or so? -- Gyp

without me signing up for anything and never hearing of them before the crooks and scammers at bobmobile.co.uk have stolen money from me. They sent me five text messages and charged me £2.50 a time and what do they say when I told them I never signed up. Tough luck! They are a bunch of crooks registered in Germany and they steal money from your phone credit and say that you must have signed up.

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without me signing up for anything and never hearing of them before the crooks and scammers at bobmobile.co.uk have stolen money from me. They sent me five text messages and charged me £2.50 a time and what do they say when I told them I never signed up. Tough luck! They are a bunch of crooks registered in Germany and they steal money from your phone credit and say that you must have signed up.

It seems that using the S2 as a mobile modem can be more expensive than at first realised. I was wondering why my monthly mobile dongle Internet allowance and one week Internet add-on weren't lasting very long. It seems that the S2 and my laptop are uploading and downloading considerable amounts of data as soon as a connection is established. The S2 Mobile Modem window shows considerable data...

Both of these are advertising free minutes and texts for same network calling. However in some forums customers are complaining that there are hidden charges such as connection fees of 15p that are charged every time a same network call is made. And apparently Lycamobile Plus (on O2) wont allow you to port an old number to them. Both Lyca and Lebara are heavily pushing their services, yet when...

Do they work in blowers locked to Vodafone? -- He who hath many Friends hath none. Aristotle

I'm using a 3 dongle to connect my laptop to the Internet. I run my own mail server at home but I'm connected to the Internet via Demon ADSL. A couple of days ago my Demon ADSL line was down for about eighteen hours. Not only could I not send from my laptop using 3 to my home SMTP server but neither could I send mail to Demon's server because that appeared to be down as well. So I tried...

Hi I've just bought a new phone (800i) and my wife (who is with Virgin) would like my current K750i which is on Orange - I had a brief chat with Orange today and was told it would be possible, but at a cost of £25! Is there an easier and cheaper way to do this? I have no experience of unlocking phones, but it seems a shame to throw away what is a pretty good phone just because Orange won't...

Okay, so I've got a Samsung U700 which is locked to the Vodaphone network. I want to unlock it so I can use SIM cards from other networks while aborad. Obviously I wouldn't want to pay for this 'service' and am looking for a reliable source of unlock codes or software like I have used with my Nokias in the past. Can anyone help ? TIA

Has anyone ever had BillMonitor http://www.billmonitor.com/ successfully analyse their mobile phone bill? All I get is error after error. Got an email from them yesterday claiming that "BillMonitor analysed your O2 bills for 07740191877 and has your best mobile contract recommendation ready for you." Okay, that's good news, so I follow the link in the email and get

can I only read excel and word files on it BUT NOT edit them?

I would like to install Adobe Reader on my Blackberry Curve. Can anyone please advise me how to do this? I only have a O2 PAYG account and so this does not allow me access to the internet. I have some access via the Blackberry site and using my home WiFi connection. I have the Blackberry Desk Top Manager installed on my PC. Any help greatly appreciated - I am a novice as far as Mobile Phones...

Hi all, My voda tariff is '300 minutes + Unlimited Texts with Mobile Internet and Vodafone Passport' AFAIK there's a 500MB FUP on the data tariff. Does anybody know what happens when you exceed this? I've just acquired a Nokia N900 and suspect I'll be using between 250MB-750MB of mobile data each month.

I sent this message to T-Mobile yesterday via their online 'email' form. It also asked for various security information which I completed: ----- Begin Quote ----- I would like to transfer my mobile number from another network to T-Mobile. I have contacted my previous network and obtained a PAC from them to

Greetings, I'm looking around for my first smartphone, and have been looking at the above model - seems good, but I hear that Vodaphone have dropped it. Is there a problem with it? Any views on it from experience? Thanks

anyone got any deals on the vivaz at the mo