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| Thread ID: 124105 | 2012-04-06 07:40:00 | Telecom Double Data | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1268579 | 2012-04-06 07:40:00 | Can't find original thread, no time anyway to search - at work. Just thought I'd say, I told them I wasn't interested anyway, already had too much data, how about a discount instead. And.... They gave me one. Offered me a choice even......same data + discount. Lower plan + discount. Quite a decent discount too. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1268580 | 2012-04-06 07:47:00 | Bonus. | plod (107) | ||
| 1268581 | 2012-04-07 04:58:00 | And Vodafone still have not updated any of their plans. If it wasn't for the bother of losing my long-standing email address I'd very happily tell them to shove their plans. The only bonus I get through Vodafone is thanks to their shonky usage monitoring... on a good day I can go about 8GB over my cap before they throttle me. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1268582 | 2012-04-07 12:11:00 | And Vodafone still have not updated any of their plans.If it wasn't for the bother of losing my long-standing email address I'd very happily tell them to shove their plans.The only bonus I get through Vodafone is thanks to their shonky usage monitoring... on a good day I can go about 8GB over my cap before they throttle me. So Paul, why don't you bite the bullet and ditch your ISP address and get a Gmail (or similar) address so you can be ISP agnostic and just go for the best deal? There's a little pain up-front, but then plain sailing forever after... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1268583 | 2012-04-07 12:46:00 | And Vodafone still have not updated any of their plans. We've had our cap increased twice... | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1268584 | 2012-04-08 08:44:00 | I had a note from Telecom. They have increased my cap from 10gb to 30gb. Seeing as I use about max 5gb I looked at a lower plan. the next lowest was 2gb. No good to me. |
gradebdan (2186) | ||
| 1268585 | 2012-04-08 09:43:00 | So Paul, why don't you bite the bullet and ditch your ISP address and get a Gmail (or similar) address so you can be ISP agnostic and just go for the best deal? There's a little pain up-front, but then plain sailing forever after... I have had four ISP changes over the years and losing an Email address is a hassle. I have a Yahoo account and an Orcon free account which I use for people I will be corresponding with long term. For people who might become the cause of spam, ie web pages asking for Email addresses, I use my current ISP Email address. When I do change my ISP the Email account closes and spamsters lose my Email address. I am not sure if Orcon are still offering free for life Email accounts. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1268586 | 2012-04-08 22:38:00 | I have had four ISP changes over the years and losing an Email address is a hassle. I have a Yahoo account and an Orcon free account which I use for people I will be corresponding with long term. For people who might become the cause of spam, ie web pages asking for Email addresses, I use my current ISP Email address. When I do change my ISP the Email account closes and spamsters lose my Email address. I am not sure if Orcon are still offering free for life Email accounts. They do.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1268587 | 2012-04-09 00:15:00 | They do.. I will certainly hold onto my Orcon Email account. I have just shifted from Actrix to Telecom mainly because of the huge boost in the cap from 10Gb to 30Gb for about the same price. I ended up with my old Xtra.co.nz email address from a few years back. I did have problems obtaining a Xtra email address but this was sorted out satisfactorly using emails to Telecom Support. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1268588 | 2012-04-09 00:17:00 | It is only the pain associated with the email change that keeps me from changing away from Vodafone. I've got lots of stuff that would have to be tracked down and changed before I could axe the old ihug email account, and some of it quite important, like IRD, Charities Commission, Companies Office, banks, and various companies that intermittently report on investments via that old email account. There's two accounts actually. Frankly, I have zero confidence that in the long term Gmail or Hotmail will continue to be available (or at least for free). They are high targets for hackers, and are known to be vulnerable and insecure. Admittedly, the average ISP is probably no more secure, but due to being smaller they're a less attractive target to hackers. I've been looking at getting a domain and associated email, but in so doing I lose every dollar I'd have saved, and also lose a layer of confidenciality between myself and the scammers out there, as my name would be associated with the domain name once registered. Similarly, I'm not confident that any of the existing independant email hosts will continue to exist in the long term either. It's still relatively early days in an industry that has still to shake out the small players. The ideal might be a free or cheap email forwarding service, which I haven't researched yet... but say you could have a 'virtual' email address which is permanent, which simply acts as a redirection point towards whatever current email host (ISP) I am using. Example, the forwarding service may provide an email address like "paul123@virtual.com" and automatically redirect my mail to "paul@orcon.net.nz" or "paul@xtra.co.nz" Changing the 'home' account when changing ISP would be as simple as reconfiguring the forwarding address at the 'virtual' server. Anyway, the following may help explain why Vodafone is slow to come to the party... they're taking one up the pipe for Sky, and consequently cannot offer high traffic media streaming through other providers: www.stuff.co.nz |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
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