Weird Goings On With My T-Mobile Prepaid.

[email protected] wrote in news:1172966673.848932.89630
@c51g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

> Have any of you ever heard of such a thing?? Maybe the Good Minute
> Fairy has graced my phone???
>
>
>

Your phone isn't hooked straight to the Tmobile billing computer where your
minutes are stored and retrieved from. So, it takes time, sometimes days,
to POST your minutes of use to that billing computer, deducting from what
you see in usage. The posting time delay gets longer, depending on whos
actual network system it is connected to for these calls.

Don't expect it to post minutes as you use them. Think of it as being as
slow as the bankers are to posting your bank deposits....floating your
money for days in the process....(c;

Larry
--
If the damned government isn't going to enforce
immigration laws, can they at LEAST park an ICE
paddy wagon in front of WalMart so I can find
a parking place and make the checkout line SHORTER?!

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[email protected] wrote in news:1172985205.132264.233930
@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com:

> I guess that I
> won't give up my $15.00 monthly unlimited Long Distance, with my
> A.T.&T.s landline, just yet>>LOL LOL.
>

Why not dump the obsolete landline and pay only $30/YEAR (not month) for
unlimited service to US/Canada, including AK and HI on Skype? If you
want them to call you, buy skype IN for another $38/YEAR (not month) and
get your own phone number. Skype makes a GREAT home phone on a wifi
router. If your usual callers are in Chicago, not where you live, get a
Skype In number in Chicago. You can have up to 10 Skype In numbers in
many countries. I have 2, one in South Carolina and one in London.
Works great and is SO CHEAP! The phone I use is the Netgear SPH101 you
can buy, now, on the net for around $175.

All this sure beats the ****ty slamming ripoffs on ATT and, because your
Skype In numbers are all in the modem blocks used by landline ISPs, your
number is NOT automatically dialed by ever spammer trying to sell
something during dinner! That, alone, is reason enough to switch for me!
I've never received a sales call on either Skype In landline number...(c;

http://www.skype.com/
Oh, It's in Luxembourgh, out of the clutches of the various layers of US
goverments' tax bureaucrats. There's no tax on it at all...saving you
$10/month right there!


Larry
--
If the damned government isn't going to enforce
immigration laws, can they at LEAST park an ICE
paddy wagon in front of WalMart so I can find
a parking place and make the checkout line SHORTER?!

"[email protected]" <ttfg> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> That's just not true - at least not in my case. I have a prepaid plan,
> and am also kind of anal about using my minutes. Thus, I often check
> my balance (#999) right after ending a call. In EVERY SINGLE CASE, the
> minutes have already been deducted by the time I check.
>
>

But, suppose he's not directly on a T-mobile switch. That would take
time.

I've been billed months later for roaming over the years.

I doubt he just got lucky and has unlimited Tmobile prepaid service with
no minutes used. God, THAT phone on Ebay would be worth a LOT!...(c;

"For sale - Tmobile prepaid phone with software bug that never uses any
minutes........."


Larry
--
If the damned government isn't going to enforce
immigration laws, can they at LEAST park an ICE
paddy wagon in front of WalMart so I can find
a parking place and make the checkout line SHORTER?!

At 03 Mar 2007 23:54:32 -0500 Larry wrote:

> Your phone isn't hooked straight to the Tmobile billing computer where
your
> minutes are stored and retrieved from. So, it takes time, sometimes
days,
> to POST your minutes of use to that billing computer, deducting from
what
> you see in usage.

Not with prepaid. Otherwise the ability to commit fraud would be too
great (when you had, say, 1 minute left, you could call Outer Mongolia
for an hour before the "billing dlay" caught up to you.)


> The posting time delay gets longer, depending on whos
> actual network system it is connected to for these calls.

That was solved for prepaid long ago. That was actually why it took so
long for roaming to come to prepaid- sorting out a real time cross-
carrier billing system.

I used my T-Mo prepaid phone in Cancun in January, and each minute was
deducted n real-time. (At $1.49 each!)


> Don't expect it to post minutes as you use them. Think of it as being
as
> slow as the bankers are to posting your bank deposits....floating your
> money for days in the process....(c;

Not on T-Mo prepaid. The OP apparently just got lucky..

At 04 Mar 2007 14:05:38 -0800 [email protected] wrote:

> None of you guys see any advantage to just using the phone, with the
> minutes remaining the same, until they somehow catch it themselves???

You might be right about the minute deductions being messed up by the
number port. I suspect the used minutes might eventually "catch up with
you" so I wouldn't suggest going crazy with the phone on the assumption
the minutes aren't being counted.

Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote in news:esg0pp$dr6$1
@aioe.org:

> I suspect the used minutes might eventually "catch up with
> you" so I wouldn't suggest going crazy with the phone on the assumption
> the minutes aren't being counted.
>

Not necessarily....(c;

I still owe the Iranian national telephone company for about $2000 in
service and long distance they never billed me for when the Shahanshah was
deposed in 1979. The bills just stopped coming, but the phone kept calling
the States..(c;

I doubt T-mobile has been overthrown like Iran was, though....


Larry
--
If the damned government isn't going to enforce
immigration laws, can they at LEAST park an ICE
paddy wagon in front of WalMart so I can find
a parking place and make the checkout line SHORTER?!

[email protected] wrote in news:1173046073.267211.122120
@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com:

> P.S. I'm wondering if the screw up was when they changed my acct. from
> the original TEMP # to my number that was ported over the very next
> day?? Although, when I check my acct online, it correctly shows my
> current number, with the same never declining minutes.
>

I'd just sit tight, myself. Verizon credited my account with $279 out of
the blue one month. I figured they'd come after it after a time and I'd
simply write a check to cover it when my negative balance ran out. I
didn't pay a cellphone bill for months as it said I didn't owe them any
money. The $279 ran out and I paid my positive balance, once again,
doing a little rain dance to see if I could get the Gods to make them
screw up, again. I never heard anything...they just lost it...(c;

When I was a Navy sailor, someone in disbursing dropped a decimal and cut
me a paycheck for $23,500, instead of my usual $235. I played it the
same way, simply depositing my check into my savings account, except for
$235 in my checking account. It was over 3 YEARS of collecting interest
on it that they came to me, of course threatening me with death over
their own screwup, wanting the government's money back. I simply wrote
them a check for the full amount, exactly the difference a little over
$23,000, they informed me I owed them. They got their money, I kept the
interest for storing it for them, they stole part of my interest back in
taxes, of course.

Just set aside your usual money for cellular, keep your mouth shut, and
wait to see if anyone notices what's going on. Obviously they don't
really care or it would have been fixed by now. You may be sitting on
the finest cellular plan on the planet...unlimited service for a
pittance.

If some company doesn't send me a bill.....they don't get paid and cannot
blame me for late payment. I control MY money flow, not "them"....(c;

Why do you people think it's YOUR responsibility to report THEIR screwups
in YOUR favor?? How silly!

Larry
--
Have a little fun in the checkout line....
Ask the nearest American, "Did you see the ICE
agents chasing those Mexicans out the back door?"
....Shortens that checkout line right up...(c;

Larry>>If you caught my last post you'll see it is too too too
late>>LOL.

Honesty got the better of me. But it did get me an extra 100 minutes
:-). Good enough for me. Plus a better night sleep. Just call me a
CHUMP>>LOL.