Has O2 started charging for GPRS?

[andynumpty]

As in the title.

[belfast-biker]

As in the title.


Apparently.

I received a text in March saying (I paraphrase): "We hope you are enjoying your free data period - please note that we will start charging at normal rates from 1st April."




With myself, they charged me for the last two days of March and it took a fight via a number of emails and calls to get them to agree their fault.

But even at that, they STILL tried to take out the extra £117 for data a few days ago.... with a view to credting my account so it all rights itself in about three months. If they think I'm in the business of giving corporations zero interest loans, they're wrong.

I knew they may do this, so cancelled my direct debit, and now my Exec is barred.

I've paid only the normal monthly amount without data via the internet, and my phone is STILL barred.






O2 sucks balls.

EDIT: Just phoned them, demanding that my call barring be lifted, and strangely, was told to turn off my phone for an hour, but it may take up to 24 hours to lift. Bizarre that they agreed (why wait until I phoned??) and bizarre that they can bar calls instantly but I need to turn off my phone for an hour and wait up to a day to get that bar lifted.