Twitter will no longer snaffle data allowances on Virgin Mobile Virgin Mobile is allowing customers to access Twitter without paying up for data, in what some might see as one way to ensure users keep using their data allowances. The social whinge platform is now available to use data-free on the UK cell network's 4G plans, alongside WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Jeff Dodds, managing …
I completely agree. It is ridiculous to include these monopolistic companie as freebies if they don't offer the same to all social media platforms.
How will this be recorded?
Who has access to this data and what are the data sets?
How long will this data be kept for after the billing cycle is complete.
After all, that extra 100Mb of data can cost us mere mortals more than £5.00.
Or are the networks saying that the cost of providing a data connection is close to zero?
We deserve to know which one it is.
Or the Tweet addicts can just stop using it 24/7?
Yeah and pigs might fly.
Assuming you don't spend all your time watching or torrenting HD video you probably don't need to worry that much but for a mobile network bandwidth is an unavoidably scarce resource.
John LeGere's (CEO T-Mobile US) talk on nudging people to watching slightly lower res vids as a way to manage bandwidth is worth watching as it covers the networks need to manage expectations.
"If Three had really wanted us to not worry about data usage, then they would not have removed their unlimited data offers."
They haven removed their unlimited offer? I still have 4 SIM cards with Unlimited data and they are still available on the website. £32 a month for All you can eat everything (including Feel at Home and 30GB hotspot) is possibly still cheaper than a SIM/Mobile Broadband solution.
"In other news, Vehicle Excise Duty on TR6s to be zero-rated."
Most TR6s have been exempt from VED since at least last year, and it's only the last ones off the production line that have only recently gained Historic status.
Interestingly, more than 40% of all TR6s sold in the UK are apparently still running (according to Wikipedia), and another 15% are SORNed (presumably as restoration projects).
The irony is, I've only really used Twitter much in the past 6 months to (repeatedly) complain about Virgin's awful customer service. You phone up, you get fobbed off. You post on their "community" forum and nobody answers for a week (policy, apparently, to encourage self-help).
So you're left with Twitter to vent frustration. It doesn't get you anywhere, but at least everyone can see them flailing around not solving problems.
They've just made it easier to make more complaints. Brilliant!
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