Text 9093, 58 rader
Skriven 2010-07-09 10:48:45 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
   Kommentar till text 9049 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Cellphone woes
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08 Jul 10 20:08, Robert Bashe wrote to Bob Ackley:

 BA>> That may vary with providers here. I allowed my Tracfone to lapse
 BA>> and then bought another one. I contacted Tracfone to register the
 BA>> new phone and they were able - with a little help from me - to
 BA>> transfer my contact list and accumulated minutes (over 300) to the
 BA>> new phone - different phone *number* though...

 RB> Strange system. For one thing, why did you haave to "register" the
 RB> phone?

To use the service, they have to program the system with the serial number
of the phone.

 RB> Or was this not a prepaid phone, but one on a provider
 RB> contract?

Tracphone is a prepaid system.

 RB> And another question would be how the **** they had any
 RB> knowledge of your "contacts" (I assume names and phone numbers)? This
 RB> really is wierd, must have been a CDMA phone too, since you have all
 RB> that data on the SIM with a GSM phone.

I asked this question a couple of years ago. It seems that some providers
and their GSM phones store the phone book on the providers system. And not
all GSM phones have a SIM card these days.

 RB> This would make people here pretty unhappy - the emphasis on private
 RB> information is pretty strong here.

Don't use Verizon or any of their non-SIMed GSM phones as your provider
then.

 RB> As for the "minutes" (for incoming calls), well, this is something
 RB> apparently only Americans really understand. Things here work
 RB> completely differently: you pay for a call you make and that's that.

Same here.

 RB> Nobody pays to receive a cellphone call any more than you would on a
 RB> land line. And any "minutes" you might buy or have given to you for
 RB> signing a contract are _sending_ time minutes here, i.e. how long you
 RB> can call.

I have no contract, but get 8800 minutes/month free.

 RB> They have nothing to do with receiving a call, since that's always
 RB> free in Germany.

Same here.


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