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If you sent a text then switched the phone off at the right time whilst the text was sending you used to get them free...
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It was the Philips Diga that a lot of people had on the pay-nothing-as-you-go plan, was it not?
Cellnet just hadn't figured out that people would hack the software to give unlimited credit (well, restoring the credit repeatedly). And even more crazy was the fact that so many people were doing it (it was incredibly hard to get hold of the phones at one point, and most were snapped up to be chipped and resold for big bucks in Loot etc) yet Cellnet seemed to prefer to play down the problem, possibly for fear of being lambasted by shareholders or having the scam exposed in the media only to make it even worse. Quote:
There was a hardware mod after the "switch off free text" scheme, even calls were free. It caused O2 (Cellnet as it was) to completely change their PAYG systems when it was discovered.
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