Cheap mobile data - almost there…
3 launched a new data plan last week here in austria: 500mb a month for ‚Ǩ29. That’s pretty exactly what i’ve been waiting for. Previously you had to pay the same for 30mb a month. And we’re talking 3g data speeds here, not puny gprs.
I ordered the package last week, knowing that it wouldn’t be activated until my next billing period, which starts exactly today. Went to a store last friday, signed the contract, everything looked okay. Today i called their service line because i didn’t get any sort of confirmation that the package had been activated and guess what, they didn’t have any information in their system that i had ever ordered it. They even hinted that ordering it in their wap-portal would have been more reliable than going to the store. Now i’m mighty pissed off, i’ll have to wait till monday to sort this bullshit out and i’ll most likely have to wait a full fucking month before i get my precious mobile data plan activated. To add insult to injury, i’m typing this on a 56k dial-up connection. Lesson learned: don’t expect that some retarded high-school drop-out could get his job more reliably done than some automated system. Sure, tech can suck hard, but on average people suck harder.