no-chance-goaway@spamtrap.net (Chapie) wrote:

> But someone told me that you cannot buy another GB until
> the 30 days has expired from your last purchase, which
> means any use of the service within the 30 days and after
> using up your GB, you pay premium charges for the data
> you transfer.

Hopefully the PAYG thing means they won't be able to help themselves to
your registered credit card under such circumstances. I'm fairly sure
they won't (because they couldn't if you could always pay via shop-bought
top-ups) but anything's possible, and I haven't read every bit of the
small print... always dangerous with mobile phone companies!

The sting might be that any additional top-ups bought before the original
30 days is up might only be valid up to that original cut-off. But that
seems pretty unfair, given that they've already got more money off you
than if you'd bought a 3Gb £15 top up in the first place... That might be
the idea though, to encourage you to spend £15 instead of £10.

I think we'll see a lot more threads like this soon, as a lot of people --
like myself -- have probably been tempted by the £40 price tag for
emergency (landline problems, as I had recently) or mobile access.
Hopefully that will lead to a more thorough understanding of the PAYG
system.

Andrew McP