Archive for the ‘Telco general’ Category

Sorry Sir, you can’t port your number out, “honest”!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Someday last October I made the decision to get N900 on contract, however I also wanted to keep my current mobile number that I’ve had with T-Mobile for several years. The trick was that an online retailer where I pre-ordered the device didn’t offer upgrades on T-Mobile – only new contracts. For some weird and wonderful reason, T-Mobile also isn’t able to cancel existing connection, free of fixed-term contract and migrate my number to the new 18-month contract. Anyhow, there is a workaround – get a new T-Mobile contract with new number, port my current number out to different network’s prepaid service and once that’s done (ie. within 2-3 working days), port it back from there to that new T-Mobile contract I’ve got with N900. Simples.
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Fancy a rip-off? Use Nokia Ovi Store

Friday, August 28, 2009

When you pay for something upfront and then never get it, what that is? I’d say a theft. Having said that, turns out Nokia is a thief.

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Instant Email service by T-Mobile UK – the good, the bad and the ugly

Thursday, August 13, 2009

I’ve been recently looking for a decent email solution for my Nokia E71, that would deliver a push-mail experience from my default Gmail account. After trying quite OK, but not-so-ideal free solutions, the time has come to subscribe to paid service offered by my mobile provider, T-Mobile UK.

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