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Sat 27/12/03 at 13:14
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Hi. Hope you all had a Merry Christmas (mine wasn't too bad, thanks).

I don't know about you, but I seem to be having trouble getting in-touch with people using my mobile phone. More precisely; with text-messaging.

Now, I've sent several messages to... about 6 different people since Christmas Eve, and yet, not one of them has sent me a reply!
My messages have gotten through to some people, I know (but, they only seem to be people I DON'T want to talk to - like my mum, sister and familly miles-away, up-north).


It's bloody ironic for this time of year, really...
The only people - and the one-person - I want to send text-messages to, and yet, it doesn't seem to be working!

Better yet, everyone around me, at home, seems to be texting back-and-forth like crazy!


Now, I did notice, originally, that when initially sending a message (all of which I have been charged for) it would take the best part of 30-seconds-to-one-minute before the text would actually go-through and "Message Sent" would appear. But that was only on the 24th...
Since Christmas Day, they've be taking only a second-or-two longer than usual. But I still cannot seem to get hold of ANYONE I want to! :(

So, perhaps the lines are, just, "really busy"?
But then... How come everyone-else around me is texting fine?!

Is it because I'm with Vodafone?
Thanks to their new "mascot" in David Beckham, and the sponsorship-deals with Man United and in Cricket, have they now become `everybody'sī favourite network or something??? (Then again, it wouldn't surprise me!)

Trouble is, I can't think of anyone I know who's with Vodafone. And even if there is anyone; chances are, it's someone I cannot contact!


Yes, I've tried phoning them. But that doesn't seem to be working out too-good, either. It's always "Busy"....

I can reach someone a good 2-hour-drive-away, yet, nobody with 5-miles seems able to "hear" me...!



Is anyone having any troubles like this? Or have you in the build-up to Christmas? I'm interested to know - especially if you, too, are with Vodafone.

I hope I'm not alone in this... I've only dropped my phone once, yet, that was barely a 2-foot drop....
Sat 27/12/03 at 16:02
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I had another Genie SIM and that broke, but the 300 texts lasted me 4 days..this SIM lasted me a week and a half!
Sat 27/12/03 at 15:58
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I have 300 free texts a month then when i used those babies up its 12 thieving english pence:(
Sat 27/12/03 at 15:52
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Paradox wrote:
> O2, they've jacked the price up the callous b*stards.

i got 2 o2 SIMs..ones with 300 texts a month free and normal text prices cost 10p but my other o2 SIM charges me 12p per text and i get no free messages..surely it would be the other way round..im not complaining touch wood

**touches wood**
Sat 27/12/03 at 15:23
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only in the evenings - snowboarding till tea are the recommendations
Sat 27/12/03 at 15:18
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I thought he was training dragons or catching vampires for a minute
Sat 27/12/03 at 15:17
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northern spain, ski resort
Sat 27/12/03 at 15:14
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Andorra?
okie
Sat 27/12/03 at 15:10
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My boyfriend is away and was all bloody christmas

To send a text from andorra cost him 70p and when i rang him he found that he was charged to recieve calls also. That was monday so i havent heard much since with his 0 credit.


Phones suck - they should bring out transporters next.
Sat 27/12/03 at 14:58
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Hurrah!
Sat 27/12/03 at 14:55
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If I heard right, it's only 6p per-message with them - to any other mobile, also on Virgin, though.

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