arijitmitter
Newbie
Hi, I am using Vodafone Postpaid for last 6 years in Calcutta. But I do not use gprs, EDGE, 3G because I have a curious fear.
On the home page of Vodafone, Airtel etc [ gprs portal ] there are options for download of games etc etc.
There is no system of receipts e.g if a vendor of mobile games PQR Technology bills your telecom provider saying you have downloaded 10 games you have no defence at end of the month ; you have to pay or face legal notice to cough up the money [ from first hand knowledge of experience of let us say another Post paid customer from another massive telecom service provider in 2005 ]. If instead of billing 12345 67899 they billed 12345 67988 from either games vendor end or telecom provider end you have no way to know till the post paid bill comes in.
You cannot tell them look I don't have the game in my handset !@@
But 3G is going to become much cheaper from year end. We shall see a price war much as we saw with call rates back in 2003 - 05.
In this scenario with a mobile handset capable of 3G all I do is receive and send sms and make calls. :disturbed:
Does Prepaid not make more sense [ I still have the legal notice from the incident back in 2005 when gprs was in its infancy and games used to cost Rs 150 ]
What opinion do you have?
Let me clarify - the quoted billing problem was not with Vodafone but another huge telecom provider in 2005 and the person had to settle the bill [ of course he left them and came to Vodafone with a promise never to use data plans again but that was before the era of 3G phones ]
On the home page of Vodafone, Airtel etc [ gprs portal ] there are options for download of games etc etc.
There is no system of receipts e.g if a vendor of mobile games PQR Technology bills your telecom provider saying you have downloaded 10 games you have no defence at end of the month ; you have to pay or face legal notice to cough up the money [ from first hand knowledge of experience of let us say another Post paid customer from another massive telecom service provider in 2005 ]. If instead of billing 12345 67899 they billed 12345 67988 from either games vendor end or telecom provider end you have no way to know till the post paid bill comes in.
You cannot tell them look I don't have the game in my handset !@@
But 3G is going to become much cheaper from year end. We shall see a price war much as we saw with call rates back in 2003 - 05.
In this scenario with a mobile handset capable of 3G all I do is receive and send sms and make calls. :disturbed:
Does Prepaid not make more sense [ I still have the legal notice from the incident back in 2005 when gprs was in its infancy and games used to cost Rs 150 ]
What opinion do you have?
Let me clarify - the quoted billing problem was not with Vodafone but another huge telecom provider in 2005 and the person had to settle the bill [ of course he left them and came to Vodafone with a promise never to use data plans again but that was before the era of 3G phones ]
