Posts by Harald

VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India

Vodafone customers: "you can't make your customer service even worse!!! you just can't!!!"

VodafoneThree: "hold my beer!!"

Sole trader dispatched almost 1M spam texts to hard-up Brits, says watchdog

Andy CURRY investigating Bharat Singh Chand - right person for the task... ;-)

Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers

Re: News flash: Tracking device tracks things

It's buried into recent builds of iOS and Android (for past 2-3 years) - the system will warn you if tracker which doesn't belong to you is close to you for longer period of time

SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC

If their mobile networks selling cards in amounts allowing such attacks...

If the number of client devices on the level of full football stadium...

... is a threat to mobile network stability - then they need urgently need to rethink the way they designing and building these networks

Office 2016 and 2019 face October 14 execution date

do you mean Clippy?

VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit

Network with worst network capacity merging with network with worst (by far) customer service.

What could possibly go wrong?

Voda-Three name post-merger top team, keep schtum on layoffs

Three is plagued with low network capacity. The most emblematic place is Stansted Airport, notorious for full bars 4G signal, but transmission speed zero.

This is result of building network on cheap, with large cells, to fulfill coverage obligations without bothering to provide actual access.

Next example of Three approach to customers is retention of old tariffs. All networks announced that tariffs with EU roaming will not be offered after Brexit, but customers already using it will be still able to enjoy free EU roaming as long they keep their tariffs.

As a result:

I'm still using my EE tariff with free EU roaming.

Member of my family month later received call from Three saying "your tariff has been discontinued, you need to choose another one" - without EU roaming of course.

To add insult to the injury, I still remember how Three (and other EU mobile networks owned by Hutchinson) were bragging about EU roaming months ahead of legal RLAH requirement. As a result, number of Three sims in my family equals zero. And there was a time when we had not less than four.

Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him

Establish a charity with main goal to fund your education.

Benefits:

- You'll start learning (questionable, but...)

- you'll get 250% return on your investment

- your cleverality should impress your new boss.

Problem solved. Profit!

Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans

Re: Just one question

They don't need to transfer money to NK, as they need these money outside NK to pay bribes and for restricted electronics, arms etc.

Software troubles delay F-35 fighter jet deliveries ... again

The same Su-57 Russia offered to India?

The same Su-57 India rejected, quoting that stealth is a joke and everything else is just repackaged, 30-years old Su-37?