Courier Business Stuff » Mobile Phones

T Mobile users

Alec — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:06:39 +0000

They’re putting up all their rates for calling 08xx numbers.

New call charges for calling 0870/0845 etc http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/uk/08/

Can I use a mobile while supervising a learner driver?

Alec — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:07:50 +0000

No. Not even to text.

3) No person shall supervise a holder of a provisional licence if the person supervising is using -

(a) a hand-held mobile telephone; or

(b) a hand-held device of a kind specified in paragraph (4),

at a time when the provisional licence holder is driving a motor vehicle on a road.

(4) A device referred to in paragraphs (1)(b), (2)(b) and (3)(b) is a device, other than a two-way radio, which performs an interactive communication function by transmitting and receiving data.

Phone Scam Doing The Rounds

Alec — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:52:16 +0000

You realise that THEY have to pay for you ringing them on an 0800 and they don’t receive anything out of what you pay your mobile company. Odd sort of a scam.

0800 numbers – Global Communications Solutions Ltd

Alec — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:17:03 +0000

If that price is for 0800 numbers then it’s an unsustainable business plan – so eventually they will cease to exist and you may lose continuity on your number.

If someone was to offer to do £100 worth of work every month for you for life for an up front fee would you accept the offer?

Courier ‘Network’ member – quotes by text?

Alec — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:16:53 +0000

Chris, are you saying that a ‘Network’ Member is asking for bids using a premium rate text number?

Laptops & 3G Data

Alec — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:06:26 +0000

That’s the ‘Turbo’ rollout Ma** – 2.8Mbps. They have slower 3G coverage over a much wider area – it’s the pink ‘Video’ coverage area shown at http://www.three.co.uk/personal/coverage_/broadbandCoverageChecker.do.

Phone Scam or just clever ££££

Alec — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:50:04 +0000

It’s not a scam. Personal Numbers (starting 070) were introduced back in the late 90s and allow you to route calls to a landline or mobile (and often international numbers as well) free of charge. They’re handy if you live in an area where your mobile doesn’t work and you’re too much of a cheapskate to divert your calls to your mobile. At the time they were introduced they cost about the same to call from a landline as calling a mobile number. Since then the cost of calling mobiles has dropped but the cost of calling personal numbers hasn’t. The called party doesn’t receive any revenue from the number but their number provider makes a nice profit.

Ofcom regulations state that from 1st September 2007 anyone calling an 070 number that will be charged at over 20p/minute must hear a pre-call announcement advising them of the charges. Most telcos haven’t introduced this yet but BT has.

If you tell the person concerned that they’re probably losing business because people are hearing this message every time they call them then they’ll possibly do the right thing and publish their actual number.

There’s one member on here that I avoid ringing whenever possible as I know it costs me 50p/minute to do so.

Nuisance Calls on my Mobile

Alec — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:00:09 +0000

I don’t think you can bar witheld numbers at network level on a mobile anyway can you? You can set some handsets to ignore them or send them straight to voicemail but I don’t think there’s anything else you can do.

You can report them to your network and the police as nuisance calls but in my experience the first response of a mobile network operator will be to offer to change your number – pretty useless if you’re trying to run a business.

I’m assuming they’re ringing your mobile direct rather than ringing a landline that’s diverted to your mobile?

New Member in Kent Seeks Travel Throughout UK/EUROPE!

Alec — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:31:50 +0000

Martin, I’ve just noticed the “07966 XXXXXX – which will divert to my global number while in Europe”. I know you’ve not had that Global SIM for long – I just wanted to check that you know that calls to IOM mobiles numbers probably don’t come out of your inclusive minutes – so you’re probably still paying for the diverted leg of the call: which is exactly what you were trying to avoid.

New mobile phone law includes hands free

Alec — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:19:21 +0000

Quote:
Motorists using hands-free phones could receive three points on their licences and a £60 fine from next month if they are considered by police not to be in control of their vehicle.

I think you’re missing the point of the new law.

If you’re not in control of your vehicle then you can already get up to 9 points for driving without due care and attention or driving without reasonable consideration for other road users.

The new law makes it an endorsable offence (ie points on your licence) to use a hand-held mobile while in control of your vehicle – whether or not it causes you to make any driving errors. Previously it was a non-endorsable offence UNLESS they could show that you were not in proper control of the vehicle and prosecute you for without due care etc.

Accepting Mobile Phone Call When in Europe

Alec — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:04:14 +0000

Get a Global SIM from www.0044.co.uk – this will give you a number with an Isle of Man 07624 prefix that has no roaming charges for incoming calls. Give that number to the people you really WANT to be able to call you. Set a voicemail message on your normal mobile informing callers of the alternate number and leave it switched off. Publicise your new mobile number everwhere you normally plaster your details.

The Global SIM roams on all 4 networks in the UK so you get better coverage for incoming calls. Use another mobile for outgoing calls in the UK though.

Mobiles – European Roaming

Alec — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:16:14 +0000

Not quite:
“The UK’s largest mobile phone operator is introducing a new roaming scheme for voice calls in Europe, whereby incoming calls — currently costing 35p per minute — will be free in exchange for a monthly supplement.

Starting immediately with UK customers roaming in Spain, the new tariff is planned to extend to 35 European territories by mid-2007. The supplement will cost £5 per month for individual customers, with small businesses having the option of buying 12 months at £2.50 per month. Outgoing calls, also currently at 35p a minute, will cost 25p per minute.”

Which Phone Network

Alec — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:47:28 +0000

T-mobile Flext plans are fantastic value at the moment, even better value if you need data as well as text & voice. Coverage and reliability seems better than it was. Vodafone are meant to be launching some new, better value, plans in the next couple of weeks.