lacroupade
Veteran
Is it possible? Oh yes....via the wonders of "Chat With a Live Representative!". 
Contacted Vodafone today via said medium to ask about charging for Blackberry services. I now know its going to be easier to just check the bill, but I was suspicious because they already insist on charging me for services accessed over my own internet connection via their SureSignal box (theres no mobile signal at my house otherwise!) which at least gives me a signal (I had to pay £50 for the hardware though) but does so over MY bandwidth.
Both my wife and I are in France a lot of the time, and have a satellite broadband wifi service at our house there. I know from experimentation that if you turn mobile services OFF but leave data ON, you can use BB Messenger, Whatsapp and email services, although obviously not voice or text services. But its not 100% clear whether they still whack you £2 a day for this pleasure....I can't see how they could justify it but that never stopped them doing such things before.
Anyway, the turkey on the other end kept saying "you can't do this, it doesn't work"...despite me telling him that I was emailing myself happily and talking to my wife in Toulouse via BBM, all with my mobile services switched off - the phone went straight to voicemail if you called it, as I did.
He went away and after ten minutes, came back with the same old b/s line so I eventually gave up and will have to get my wife to check her online bill after operating in that manner for a day or so.
But makes you wonder what else they try to hide. Not to mention the frustration of someone telling you that something you are sat doing, can't be done?!
Bring back telex.....
Contacted Vodafone today via said medium to ask about charging for Blackberry services. I now know its going to be easier to just check the bill, but I was suspicious because they already insist on charging me for services accessed over my own internet connection via their SureSignal box (theres no mobile signal at my house otherwise!) which at least gives me a signal (I had to pay £50 for the hardware though) but does so over MY bandwidth.
Both my wife and I are in France a lot of the time, and have a satellite broadband wifi service at our house there. I know from experimentation that if you turn mobile services OFF but leave data ON, you can use BB Messenger, Whatsapp and email services, although obviously not voice or text services. But its not 100% clear whether they still whack you £2 a day for this pleasure....I can't see how they could justify it but that never stopped them doing such things before.
Anyway, the turkey on the other end kept saying "you can't do this, it doesn't work"...despite me telling him that I was emailing myself happily and talking to my wife in Toulouse via BBM, all with my mobile services switched off - the phone went straight to voicemail if you called it, as I did.
He went away and after ten minutes, came back with the same old b/s line so I eventually gave up and will have to get my wife to check her online bill after operating in that manner for a day or so.
But makes you wonder what else they try to hide. Not to mention the frustration of someone telling you that something you are sat doing, can't be done?!
Bring back telex.....
