Mundane News

[Reynard]

Ordinarily, phone usage isn't an issue even if it is a PAYG as opposed to a contract phone, as I'm out and about and use it regularly albeit briefly. I just don't use a phone enough to warrant having a contract at the best of times.

But now since I've been staying put (no cat shows, no motor racing, no going to Cambridge etc) I don't really use it - I do most of my stuff via t'internet. I do take it when I'm out on the bike, just in case I come a cropper.

I'm not one for sitting and chatting socially on a phone for hours - never have been. Wasn't allowed to when I was a kid, and guess that's kind of stayed with me.

 

[Reynard]

Aaaaaanyways, time to go and feed the cats, and then it will be time to feed me.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Almost lost the will to live. I spent an hour and a half on a live chat trying to stop my mobile account from being terminated because I haven't been using it enough.

Disaster averted, but aaaargh!

Wouldn't it have worked to make a phone call on your mobile?

 

[Illaveago]

I just popped out to our local wine merchants and bought a bottle of Italian red . Tesco garage . Montepeculiarno! Well it tastes a bit that way . They didn't have any cheap Australian plonk .

 

[Reynard]

Wouldn't it have worked to make a phone call on your mobile?

I would, if the signal would stay consistent. Coverage here is haphazard at best, not helped by the weather.

And the bonus of a web chat is I can wander off and make a and do other things while I wait for replies.

 

[Reynard]

Anyways, I had a vegetable crumble and some very nice chipolata sausages for supper.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Wouldn't it have worked to make a phone call on your mobile?

That's how I thought it worked. But, even if non use is the trigger, use doesn't appear to always reverse the process.

 

[Reynard]

That's how I thought it worked. But, even if non use is the trigger, use doesn't appear to always reverse the process.

Had to contact them directly to reverse the process.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Time for bed. I've been working on a painting and I lost track of time...

 

[classic33]

Almost lost the will to live. I spent an hour and a half on a live chat trying to stop my mobile account from being terminated because I haven't been using it enough.

Disaster averted, but aaaargh!

EE or O2?

 

[Reynard]

EE or O2?

Neither.

Virgin.

 

[classic33]

Neither.

Virgin.

They "piggy-back" EE, previously the Orange network.

 

[PeteXXX]

@biggs682 Here's the newish plane at Sywell Aerodrome.. ~Handley-Page Jetstream ~
I searched for G-RVL

 

[tyred]

I have an O2 UK sun card that I used when I worked in Derry years ago. It is at least 6 years since I last put any credit on it but it still receives texts. I'm surprised that they haven't killed it by now.

I know because I have the SIM in a prehistoric LG flip phone. I sometimes order things on UK eBay and have them sent Click and Collect to Argos across the border so I can pick things up and avoid paying international postage to move something another few miles down the road. I always give that number as it won't accept my Irish one.

I can then take my phone to Argos, show them the text and have them laugh at my stone age phone. Cheeky young whippersnappers

 

[classic33]

I have an O2 UK sun card that I used when I worked in Derry years ago. It is at least 6 years since I last put any credit on it but it still receives texts. I'm surprised that they haven't killed it by now.

I know because I have the SIM in a prehistoric LG flip phone. I sometimes order things on UK eBay and have them sent Click and Collect to Argos across the border so I can pick things up and avoid paying international postage to move something another few miles down the road. I always give that number as it won't accept my Irish one.

I can then take my phone to Argos, show them the text and have them laugh at my stone age phone. Cheeky young whippersnappers

That's not that old. I've still got phones that take full size SIM cards.