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When reading a post like that, I am like "whaaat, people are locked in the 90s?" In France, it is almost unlimited for 20€/month, so very cheap, I do not care / try to optimize that. Happy for you you got unlimited :)
It said "for five days". So I'd assume those minutes/data will only last for that period of time. So I'd imagine this is like when I go to Amazon every X+n months and it tries to reel me back in with a free month of prime. They're giving you freebies to use, to establish habits which they can then profit from later down the line.
The article was pretty clear about this: > Before I continue, I will answer the obvious question: Did I actually receive 999999 minutes? Yes, indeed I did. But unfortunately, I was only given 7200 minutes to spend my 999999 minutes and I could only spend them 1 minute at a time.
As someone working for a telco, not Vodafone, this would be my assumptions: A developer mistakenly grabbed a real MSISDN, instead of a QA one, while testing a promo still in development. I only say this because there's no identifier to differenciate a real phone number from a test one. Subscribers often called to report those gibberish text messages they received. It's always a dev entering an incorrect number while…
When I worked for an Australian telco (not Vodafone), some developers on another team had used a very conspicuous mobile phone number in their integration tests, which actually connected to a real SMS service somewhere else in the company. No idea why they would do this. It turned out that this number belonged to a real person, who got absolutely buried in test SMS messages, when the integration tests ran as part of…
That was one number we were told to stop using at Internode. I heard similar stories from Optus and Telstra employees.
When reading a post like that, I am like "whaaat, people are locked in the 90s?" In France, it is almost unlimited for 20€/month, so very cheap, I do not care / try to optimize that. Happy for you you got unlimited :)
When reading a post like that, I am like "whaaat, people are locked in the 90s?" In France, it is almost unlimited for 20€/month, so very cheap, I do not care / try to optimize that. Happy for you you got unlimited :)
As someone working for a telco, not Vodafone, this would be my assumptions: A developer mistakenly grabbed a real MSISDN, instead of a QA one, while testing a promo still in development. I only say this because there's no identifier to differenciate a real phone number from a test one. Subscribers often called to report those gibberish text messages they received. It's always a dev entering an incorrect number while…
In my first job we had warehouse management system, and for testing new versions we allowed users to log-in to test environment.
Some employees didn't knew they were supposed to only log in to prod and happily worked in their warehouse accepting deliveries, stocktaking, moving stuff in real world using test db instead of the prod one. We only realized when they moved so much stuff that the inconsistencies db vs reality triggered alarms.
When reading a post like that, I am like "whaaat, people are locked in the 90s?" In France, it is almost unlimited for 20€/month, so very cheap, I do not care / try to optimize that. Happy for you you got unlimited :)
Germany is more expensive (unless you go with a phone contract from the local grocery store - which I've heard mixed reviews about)
For 8.25 EUR/month, you get 250 GB of data per year, and for 12.40 EUR 450 GB/year.
As someone working for a telco, not Vodafone, this would be my assumptions: A developer mistakenly grabbed a real MSISDN, instead of a QA one, while testing a promo still in development. I only say this because there's no identifier to differenciate a real phone number from a test one. Subscribers often called to report those gibberish text messages they received. It's always a dev entering an incorrect number while…
When I worked for an Australian telco (not Vodafone), some developers on another team had used a very conspicuous mobile phone number in their integration tests, which actually connected to a real SMS service somewhere else in the company. No idea why they would do this. It turned out that this number belonged to a real person, who got absolutely buried in test SMS messages, when the integration tests ran as part of…
Our CTO had to personally apologise to him
The "unlimited data" is an interesting contrast and always makes me wonder "at how much speed?" I am more surprised that mobile plans are still charging by the minute. A "toll quality" 64kbps audio stream is 480KB per minute. More advanced codecs use a fraction of that.