How much money are you paying to your cell phone provider?
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@Nagesh said:
@Douglasac said:
@Nagesh said:
Also vodafone is not giving me latest iPhone
Why you'd want an iPhone is beyond me. In any case, I think this is yet another example of Vodafail.I have Steve jobs poster in my living room. (not really. making joke)
I know you're not a native speaker, but there's no quicker way to kill your joke than to point out it's a joke. (That was not a joke)
In an effort to make this post more worthwhile, here's a YouTube video of a rainbow Pop-Tart cat flying through space, and here's Dave Barry's article on closed-captioning for the humor-impaired.
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@blakeyrat said:
@Nagesh said:
Are you sure you're not the one missing the subtler joke? Always hard to tell with Nagesh.@Douglasac said:
@Nagesh said:
Also vodafone is not giving me latest iPhone
Why you'd want an iPhone is beyond me. In any case, I think this is yet another example of Vodafail.I have Steve jobs poster in my living room. (not really. making joke)
I know you're not a native speaker, but there's no quicker way to kill your joke than to point out it's a joke. (That was not a joke)
In an effort to make this post more worthwhile, here's a YouTube video of a rainbow Pop-Tart cat flying through space, and here's Dave Barry's article on closed-captioning for the humor-impaired.
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@blakeyrat said:
@Nagesh said:
@Douglasac said:
@Nagesh said:
Also vodafone is not giving me latest iPhone
Why you'd want an iPhone is beyond me. In any case, I think this is yet another example of Vodafail.I have Steve jobs poster in my living room. (not really. making joke)
I know you're not a native speaker, but there's no quicker way to kill your joke than to point out it's a joke. (That was not a joke)
In an effort to make this post more worthwhile, here's a YouTube video of a rainbow Pop-Tart cat flying through space, and here's Dave Barry's article on closed-captioning for the humor-impaired.
We have same saying in my state. If you feel need to explain joke, then you lost your audience already.
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@Douglasac said:
@galgorah said:
Here the equivqalent is Verizon, t-mobile, sprint.
I'm surprised AT&T hasn't taken a page out of Telstra's book and figured out that, short of building lots of towers with fibre backhaul, the easiest way to make sure your network is awesome is to charge an arm and a leg for it. Oh, and the many towers\fibre backhaul thing works well too.@galgorah said:I've never had an issue with a dropped call.
Douglas: do you remember the old Telstra ads where there were Americans (some famous ones apparently) talking and the phone cuts out and they say "This wouldn't happen in Australia"?
@Douglasac said:
I had an interesting issue where a call went haywire and died, but I'm not sure who was at fault: me or the caller. So far on Telstra, that's been the only call issue.
You know, I've been on the Optus GSM network since 2001 and I don't remember a lot of dropped calls, though I do remember being annoyed about being charged the flagfall again. I was previously on Telstra GSM (from 1999-2001) and back then if you redialled quick enough the second call had no flagfall. It was per-second billing back then too - now it's per-minute, so a 1:01 call would cost you the same as a 1:59 call. Recently the only dropped calls I've had is when the other person is on Vodafail, so I think I know where the blame is there!
@Douglasac said:
Optus have a plan with a Samsung Galaxy S and a Samsung Galaxy Tab that gives you 3GB data on each
I wanted a plan for an iPad to use some quota from my netbook plan (I normally only use ~300MB of the 2GB) but they don't allow that. When the netbook contract runs out (January 2012) I was thinking about going to iPhone (or other smartphone) and use it as personal hotspot for my iPad and netbook instead. I wonder what plan I'll be able to get with my $55/month budget?
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@Zemm said:
Douglas: do you remember the old Telstra ads where there were Americans (some famous ones apparently) talking and the phone cuts out and they say "This wouldn't happen in Australia"?
I do, actually... :D I have a feeling George Clooney was involved. I think. Not sure.@Zemm said:It was per-second billing back then too - now it's per-minute
Ah, back in the days when calls were decent value... having said that, I consume a lot of data on my phone: I find myself making fewer calls and sending fewer text messages. If I want to talk to someone I can shoot them an email or whatever. I think I said this before, but out of my 14 page bill, two pages were a summary and instructions on how to pay, six pages were data charges, five were for calls, text messages and MMS, and the last was some random page no doubt Telstra telling me how wonderful they are.@Zemm said:I wanted a plan for an iPad to use some quota from my netbook plan (I normally only use ~300MB of the 2GB) but they don't allow that.
Kinda cumbersome solution, but if the netbook runs Windows 7, has Wifi and is around you when you're using the iPad, you can try [url=http://www.connectify.me]Connectify[/url] which turns the laptop into a glorified wireless router. If you've not got 7, or don't have the netbook always around when using the iPad, never mind.@Zemm said:I wonder what plan I'll be able to get with my $55/month budget?
If you're wanting to jump ship to Telstra, you're not going to get an iPhone for $55\month... off the top of my head, their iPhone plans start at $79\month (I've not paid much attention to Optus' plans). Having said that, between now and then things will change. Apple will no doubt release a new iPhone, HTC have announced several Android handsets, Vodafone have got the new Galaxy Tabs coming out, rumours are circulating that Telstra are getting the Motorola Xoom late next month, Optus will no doubt join the party with some kind of tablet (I'm betting they'll get the Flyer), something will become cheaper to make and reduce the costs of phones and suchlike, something will become harder to come by and reduce supply of phones and suchlike... it's like gambling, except you're not betting with money, there's no wheel with a little ball, and there are all sorts of possible outcomes that almost nobody could possibly predict.
