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Land Line technology poor - mobile technology good - thats the key reason
Land line technology is shoddy hence the poor success rate in getting through and I even suspect the recording of votes via land lines might be suspect. The exchanges arent up to dealing with the quantity of calls. Rhydian's fans are older and more of them would use land line to vote compared to mobiles. A greater % of Leon fans who are younger would use mobiles to vote. So there was an even greater chance of him winning.
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I was voting for SD using a mobile and couldn't get through (network being 3) ..
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You have a fair point here. I got through almost every time whilst voting with my mobile earlier in the show. I was always confused by people stating that they were getting engaged tones every week but now I realise that it's because they were voting via their landlines.
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Rhydian's fans are older and more of them would use land line to vote compared to mobiles. A greater % of Leon fans who are younger would use mobiles to vote. So there was an even greater chance of him winning.
PS Teenage girls aren't the only people with mobile phones these days! |
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I had severe difficulties trying to vote for Leon via the landline. It was nearly always an engaged tone or network is busy message.
The mobile was also engaged a lot, but I managed to make a few votes. It's so expensive voting by mobile phone, though. It soon chews your credit up. Looking back, I discovered that I was charged when the line was engaged.
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^ Yeah, I discovered that.
![]() Ended up with £22 of credit gone when I only managed to register around 15 votes.
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My daughter and I got through using two separate mobile phones over 20 times without any problems…I have said this on the final night as well.
It did not occur to me to use a land line because I didn’t what a huge phone bill with added VAT. I was surprise when I came on this forum and realised so many people could not get through. It's true about land lines, they can’t cope with the sheer volume of callers at once. I think X Factor production team should have warned voters it is easier using the mobile. OfCom will investigate this fully and then we will know the answers. |
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My daughter and I got through using two separate mobile
I think X Factor production team should have warned voters it is easier using the mobile. OfCom will investigate this fully and then we will know the answers. In relation to your last comment do you really think Ofcom have the time and resources to waste on something as trivial as this, where the only evidence of wrong doing is unfounded accusations by a very small number of bitter people who won't accept Leon won by at least 500,000 votes i.e. far too big a margin for any investigation to overturn! |
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^ Yeah, I discovered that.
![]() Ended up with £22 of credit gone when I only managed to register around 15 votes. ![]() |
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Perfect. So the time when having a mobile phone would have been perfect I had to go out to the pub the night before and return in a drunken state throwing my worldly possessions (mobile included) in a random heap. So the next day when I am watching x factor I cannot locate said phone and have to resort to trying to get through on the landline for an hour with no success.
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The calls on mobiles are more expensive - people would then complain that the producers by encouraging people to use mobiles were only doing it to boost their income.
In relation to your last comment do you really think Ofcom have the time and resources to waste on something as trivial as this, where the only evidence of wrong doing is unfounded accusations by a very small number of bitter people who won't accept Leon won by at least 500,000 votes i.e. far too big a margin for any investigation to overturn! Ofcom are investigating this matter as well as other phone-in competitions on TV. I am fully aware that nothing can change the outcome, most people wouldn’t want that. Rhydian has got an album deal. We just want to know if anything went wrong with the voting phone lines. |
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Land line technology is shoddy hence the poor success rate in getting through and I even suspect the recording of votes via land lines might be suspect. The exchanges arent up to dealing with the quantity of calls. Rhydian's fans are older and more of them would use land line to vote compared to mobiles. A greater % of Leon fans who are younger would use mobiles to vote. So there was an even greater chance of him winning.
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Land line technology is shoddy hence the poor success rate in getting through and I even suspect the recording of votes via land lines might be suspect. The exchanges arent up to dealing with the quantity of calls. Rhydian's fans are older and more of them would use land line to vote compared to mobiles. A greater % of Leon fans who are younger would use mobiles to vote. So there was an even greater chance of him winning.
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