Phones4u goes belly up

[cyberknight]

I promote GiffGaff wherever I can for sim only. They are great unless you need to use tethering or 4G (although that is coming very soon).

Im with giff gaff too and tbh even though the phone i have is "entry " dumb smartphone its has more features than i need , £10 credit will last me maybe 4 months .

 

[luckyfox]

Having worked for one of those mobile providers i was shocked at the revenue providers pay to third party stores. Makes you wonder where all this extra cash will now go. Given the company i used to work for has half empty buildings with low pay for staff i hope it gets reinvested in better training/pay and more staff. Or you know another jet for the top peeps...

It still amazes me that people get 'charged' for text messages without unlimited bundles. I'm sure this might be challenged but given my previous role i can confirm during the 8 years i worked there text messaging cost the company nothing. The rate of revenue from line rental customers covers all costs of maintaining the network, texts cost nothing so charging for them is 100% profit. Even with apps, 21 billion text are sent a year these days. That's a none to shabby private jet.

*leaves soap box out for the next person

 

[swee'pea99]

No it wasn't

You forgot 'and no it didn't'.

 

[green1]

Giffgaff is useless if you have any issues though. I couldn't get texts or data to work and I got spammed on the forum with people telling me to do the same thing and then telling me I couldn't be doing it right when it didn't work. I was signed up for 5 days before I then moved again to 3. Now I'm Paying 10.90pm for 200 minutes, 5000 texts and unlimited data on a month to month sim only contract and buying my phone outright as and when required.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Giffgaff is useless if you have any issues though. I couldn't get texts or data to work and I got spammed on the forum with people telling me to do the same thing and then telling me I couldn't be doing it right when it didn't work. I was signed up for 5 days before I then moved again to 3. Now I'm Paying 10.90pm for 200 minutes, 5000 texts and unlimited data on a month to month sim only contract and buying my phone outright as and when required.

Did you check the APN and message center settings on the phone ?

 

[vernon]

Having worked for one of those mobile providers i was shocked at the revenue providers pay to third party stores. Makes you wonder where all this extra cash will now go. Given the company i used to work for has half empty buildings with low pay for staff i hope it gets reinvested in better training/pay and more staff.
*leaves soap box out for the next person

That will be Orange/EE then.

 

[classic33]

Currys having kicked Phones4U out last month, will be welcoming The Carphone Warehouse later this month.

 

[Longshot]

Still open here

 

[green1]

Did you check the APN and message center settings on the phone ?

Yes, they were all set correctly. I was then told by numerous people I must have done it wrong, over and over again.

 

[Tim Hall]

It still amazes me that people get 'charged' for text messages without unlimited bundles. I'm sure this might be challenged but given my previous role i can confirm during the 8 years i worked there text messaging cost the company nothing. The rate of revenue from line rental customers covers all costs of maintaining the network, texts cost nothing so charging for them is 100% profit. Even with apps, 21 billion text are sent a year these days. That's a none to shabby private jet.

*leaves soap box out for the next person

Company in "driven by profit motive" shock.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

60 stores sold via the auditors to EE well that's a shock no-one saw that one coming

Alan...

 

[classic33]

60 stores sold via the auditors to EE well that's a shock no-one saw that one coming

Alan...

All in Currys/PCWorld. Knew that bit last week.