International Roaming? Optus? Phhppt...

Michael wrote...

> > AT&T is progressively rolling out its 3G network and where my wife is
> > there is coverage. Not sure about London, though. I haven't checked.
>
> London isn't in the states, you idiot

It could be if she's headed to say, Connecticut which is over the border from
where she currently is.

In any case I was refering to the next leg of her journey.

> Suck it up and deal with it like a man. She ****ed up.

Oh, if you were face to face with me, gutless, sanctimonious arsehole.

And illiterate too. Read what I posted about the Optus sales droid being asked
to activate international roaming and he acknowledging that it would be.

Any wonder you cop all this crap from the others in the newsgroup.

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>>> Anyway, an update. I called Optus yesterday but they wouldn't deal with
>>> me, despite me begging and pleading and figuratively speaking, pushing
>>> my blind and deaf leper child in front of me asking for special
>>> dispensation.
>
> Didnt realise you had one of those.
>
>> For privacy reasons they cant make any changes to the account without her
>> permission.
>
> They have her permission, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny
> cleaning ****wit child.

She gave her permission to the husband, not to Optus themselves.

Optus need her DIRECT permission

>> Suck it up and deal with it like a man. She ****ed up.
>
> Nope, the store did, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning
> ****wit child.

Possibly, possibly not.

>> You arent entitled to IntRoam
>
> Wrong again, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit
> child.

Since when is it a RIGHT or ENTITLEMENT to have IntRoam on a postpaid
mobile?

>> and if she's never received or paid a bill,
>
> She had done that already plenty of times, you stupid pig ignorant
> illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

Not with Optus, clearly

>> she's a credit risk.
>
> Only in your pathetic little drug crazed pig ignorant fantasyland, you
> stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.
>
>> Thus the bond
>
> There is no bond, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning
> ****wit child.

Clearly we are talking in the concept of "thus the bond (request)"

Do I need to ***** everything out to you? Are you unable to read in context?

Come on Rod, you are slipping.
>
>

Michael <[email protected]> wrote:

>>>> Anyway, an update. I called Optus yesterday but they wouldn't deal with me, despite me begging and pleading and
>>>> figuratively speaking, pushing my blind and deaf leper child in front of me asking for special dispensation.

>> Didnt realise you had one of those.

>>> For privacy reasons they cant make any changes to the account without her permission.

>> They have her permission, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

> She gave her permission to the husband, not to Optus themselves.

Wrong, as always, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

She gave that permission herself to Optarse at the Optarse store,
you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

> Optus need her DIRECT permission

She gave that permission herself to Optarse at the Optarse store,
you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> Suck it up and deal with it like a man. She ****ed up.

>> Nope, the store did, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

> Possibly,

Absolutely certainly, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

> possibly not.

Wrong, as always, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> You arent entitled to IntRoam

>> Wrong again, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

> Since when is it a RIGHT or ENTITLEMENT to have IntRoam on a postpaid mobile?

When the store agreed to provide that, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> and if she's never received or paid a bill,

>> She had done that already plenty of times, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

> Not with Optus, clearly

Wrong, as always, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> she's a credit risk.

>> Only in your pathetic little drug crazed pig ignorant fantasyland,
>> you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> Thus the bond

>> There is no bond, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

> Clearly we are talking in the concept of "thus the bond (request)"

There is no bond, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

<reams of your desperate attempts to bull**** your way out of your predicament that fools
absolutely no one at all, as always, flushed where it belongs, down your personal dunny>

Rod Speed wrote...

> > Suck it up and deal with it like a man. She ****ed up.
>
> Nope, the store did, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

No use trying to get through to him. Although I'm surprised that he isn't
jumping on the "Let's ****can Optus and Optus Stores" band wagon.

I thought that I made it clear when I told the tale. That in the store we asked
the following questions:

1. Will this phone (the N95i or 8 gig version) roam in the US and in the UK?
2. Can you please ensure that international roaming is enabled when you activate
the account?
3. We are getting this particular phone because of its 3G capabilities and the
other features that it has, ie. GPS, etc. Can we download maps of New York,
London and Paris?

And we reiterated to the guy that we decided to get this phone because we wanted
to use it overseas in New York, London and Paris.

Anyway, it doesn't matter, now. It's activated. So when she gets off the plane
at LHR and in Singapore she'll be able to call the shuttle bus or whatever
arrangements that she's made to come and collect her to take her to the hotel.

We knew nothing about the bond until someone here mentioned it and when my wife
discovered that she needed to pay it when she rang up from New York. You woulda
thunkit that the sales droid would have known all this information. Clearly he
did not. His product knowledge, as it is for most of them, it seems, is clearly
lacking. It reflects on the organisation and the management who supposedly run
these stores and indicates a lack of professionalism on their part.

It's all well and good to get 18yo chicky babes in there who'll bat their
eyelids and get the lads to buy the most expensive phone that they can't afford.
Unfortunately for me at least, the guy that we dealt with was (a) a fellow and
(b) was old enough to have his mind more on the job than either say footy
training that night or when he's gonna get his next root.

Suffice it to say, Optus will be receiving a rather stern letter (and a copy to
be sent to Optusworld in town) from SWIMPO when she gets home.


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Snapper <[email protected]> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>>> Suck it up and deal with it like a man. She ****ed up.

>> Nope, the store did, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

> No use trying to get through to him.

True, but it can be amusing dumping him face down in the mud time after time after time.

> Although I'm surprised that he isn't jumping on the
> "Let's ****can Optus and Optus Stores" band wagon.

Its only the Poxington thats actually that stupid.

The dunny cleaning child used them himself for quite a while.

> I thought that I made it clear when I told the tale.
> That in the store we asked the following questions:

> 1. Will this phone (the N95i or 8 gig version) roam in the US and in the UK?
> 2. Can you please ensure that international roaming is enabled when you activate the account?
> 3. We are getting this particular phone because of its 3G
> capabilities and the other features that it has, ie. GPS, etc.
> Can we download maps of New York, London and Paris?

> And we reiterated to the guy that we decided to get this phone
> because we wanted to use it overseas in New York, London and Paris.

Yeah, its one of the real downsides with roaming, there isnt any way
to test whether its been enabled properly till you get there and FAR
too many of the store apes cant even manage to get the basics right.

Corse roaming isnt actually much use, its much better to
stick a sim that you get from the wogs in the phone instead.

> Anyway, it doesn't matter, now. It's activated. So when
> she gets off the plane at LHR and in Singapore she'll be
> able to call the shuttle bus or whatever arrangements that
> she's made to come and collect her to take her to the hotel.

Yeah, handy for that immediate first stuff.

> We knew nothing about the bond until someone here mentioned
> it and when my wife discovered that she needed to pay it when
> she rang up from New York. You woulda thunkit that the sales
> droid would have known all this information.

There's a reason that the best it can manage in the
current very tight labor market is a sales****wit.

> Clearly he did not. His product knowledge, as it is for most of
> them, it seems, is clearly lacking. It reflects on the organisation
> and the management who supposedly run these stores and
> indicates a lack of professionalism on their part.

Its hard for them too with the very tight labor market we have.

Tho in this case, the clowns should have it all spelt out on their web site.

> It's all well and good to get 18yo chicky babes in there who'll bat
> their eyelids and get the lads to buy the most expensive phone that
> they can't afford. Unfortunately for me at least, the guy that we
> dealt with was (a) a fellow and (b) was old enough to have his mind
> more on the job than either say footy training that night or when
> he's gonna get his next root.

Trouble is that he doesnt have enough viable between his ears
to get a real job even in the current very tight labor market.

> Suffice it to say, Optus will be receiving a rather stern letter (and a copy
> to be sent to Optusworld in town) from SWIMPO when she gets home.

You'll get more of a reaction if she just Bobbits him.

"Rod Speed" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>>> Anyway, an update. I called Optus yesterday but they wouldn't deal
>>>>> with me, despite me begging and pleading and figuratively speaking,
>>>>> pushing my blind and deaf leper child in front of me asking for
>>>>> special dispensation.
>
>>> Didnt realise you had one of those.
>
>>>> For privacy reasons they cant make any changes to the account without
>>>> her permission.
>
>>> They have her permission, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny
>>> cleaning ****wit child.
>
>> She gave her permission to the husband, not to Optus themselves.
>
> Wrong, as always, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning
> ****wit child.
>
> She gave that permission herself to Optarse at the Optarse store,
> you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

She talked to Optus about phones. She didnt authorise her husband on the
acct, else he'd be talking to Optus now

>
>> Optus need her DIRECT permission
>
> She gave that permission herself to Optarse at the Optarse store,
> you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.
>
>>>> Suck it up and deal with it like a man. She ****ed up.
>
>>> Nope, the store did, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning
>>> ****wit child.
>
>> Possibly,
>
> Absolutely certainly, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning
> ****wit child.
>
>> possibly not.
>
> Wrong, as always, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning
> ****wit child.
>
>>>> You arent entitled to IntRoam
>
>>> Wrong again, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit
>>> child.
>
>> Since when is it a RIGHT or ENTITLEMENT to have IntRoam on a postpaid
>> mobile?
>
> When the store agreed to provide that, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate
> dunny cleaning ****wit child.
>
>>>> and if she's never received or paid a bill,
>
>>> She had done that already plenty of times, you stupid pig ignorant
>>> illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.
>
>> Not with Optus, clearly
>
> Wrong, as always, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning
> ****wit child.
>
>>>> she's a credit risk.
>
>>> Only in your pathetic little drug crazed pig ignorant fantasyland,
>>> you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.
>
>>>> Thus the bond
>
>>> There is no bond, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning
>>> ****wit child.
>
>> Clearly we are talking in the concept of "thus the bond (request)"
>
> There is no bond, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning
> ****wit child.
>
> <reams of your desperate attempts to bull**** your way out of your
> predicament that fools
> absolutely no one at all, as always, flushed where it belongs, down your
> personal dunny>
>

Michael <[email protected]> wrote
> Rod Speed <[email protected]> wrote
>> Michael <[email protected]> wrote

>>>>>> Anyway, an update. I called Optus yesterday but they wouldn't
>>>>>> deal with me, despite me begging and pleading and figuratively
>>>>>> speaking, pushing my blind and deaf leper child in front of me
>>>>>> asking for special dispensation.

>>>> Didnt realise you had one of those.

>>>>> For privacy reasons they cant make any changes to the account without her permission.

>>>> They have her permission, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> She gave her permission to the husband, not to Optus themselves.

>> Wrong, as always, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>> She gave that permission herself to Optarse at the Optarse store,
>> you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

> She talked to Optus about phones.

She got the store to organise roaming, you stupid pig ignorant drug crazed dunny cleaning arse licking ****wit child.

> She didnt authorise her husband on the acct,

She got the store to organise roaming, you stupid pig ignorant drug crazed dunny cleaning arse licking ****wit child.

He's just relaying the fact that they ****ed that up, when she cant because they ****ed
that up, you stupid pig ignorant drug crazed dunny cleaning arse licking ****wit child.

> else he'd be talking to Optus now

He's just relaying the fact that they ****ed that up, when she cant because they ****ed
that up, you stupid pig ignorant drug crazed dunny cleaning arse licking ****wit child.

>>> Optus need her DIRECT permission

>> She gave that permission herself to Optarse at the Optarse store,
>> you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>>>> Suck it up and deal with it like a man. She ****ed up.

>>>> Nope, the store did, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> Possibly,

>> Absolutely certainly, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> possibly not.

>> Wrong, as always, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>>>> You arent entitled to IntRoam

>>>> Wrong again, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> Since when is it a RIGHT or ENTITLEMENT to have IntRoam on a postpaid mobile?

>> When the store agreed to provide that, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>>>> and if she's never received or paid a bill,

>>>> She had done that already plenty of times, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> Not with Optus, clearly

>> Wrong, as always, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>>>> she's a credit risk.

>>>> Only in your pathetic little drug crazed pig ignorant fantasyland,
>>>> you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>>>> Thus the bond

>>>> There is no bond, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> Clearly we are talking in the concept of "thus the bond (request)"

>> There is no bond, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>> <reams of your desperate attempts to bull**** your way out of your predicament that fools
>> absolutely no one at all, as always, flushed where it belongs, down your personal dunny>

Rod Speed wrote...

> Snapper <[email protected]> wrote
> > Rod Speed wrote
>
> >>> Suck it up and deal with it like a man. She ****ed up.
>
> >> Nope, the store did, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.
>
> > No use trying to get through to him.
>
> True, but it can be amusing dumping him face down in the mud time after time after time.

Just spoke to the missus. She's currently in London, flying home tomorrow. She
went through the various menus on the phone with me to make sure that she had it
set up right. In auto for network connections it would not connect to anything.
She then selected manual and got a list of available networks. She chose them
all, one at a time, obviously. Then tried to make a call. Just got an error
beep.

She put the Vodaphone SIM back in and called me back.

She then asked me. "who's this Michael dick that abused you? Talk about rude!"

Eh?

Apparently she was on the net searching for info on global roaming to see what
the go is and she came across this thread. Or one of them. She said, "didn't he
read the entire message?"

I said. "I doubt it. He tends to shoot from the lip as it were and cops this all
the time from others."

Anyway, she's gonna do whatever she can to terminate the contract with Optus
when she gets home. And it all centres on the salesman at Optus World lying to
her saying that it will global roam and it's set up for it, etc..

Interesting times ahead.

Anyway, apparently London's very nice, as is Paris, but ****ing expensive to
live there. And we could take a tip or two from their taxi services,
particularly Melbourne.

Personally, I'll be glad when it's all over. I'm starting to run out of clean
clothes...

Snapper <[email protected]> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Snapper <[email protected]> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote

>>>>> Suck it up and deal with it like a man. She ****ed up.

>>>> Nope, the store did, you stupid pig ignorant illiterate dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>>> No use trying to get through to him.

>> True, but it can be amusing dumping him face down in the mud time after time after time.

> Just spoke to the missus. She's currently in London, flying home
> tomorrow. She went through the various menus on the phone with
> me to make sure that she had it set up right. In auto for network
> connections it would not connect to anything. She then selected
> manual and got a list of available networks. She chose them all, one
> at a time, obviously. Then tried to make a call. Just got an error beep.

Did it work in yankeeland ?

> She put the Vodaphone SIM back in and called me back.

> She then asked me. "who's this Michael dick that abused you? Talk about rude!"

> Eh?

You didnt realise that she checks up on you eh |-)

> Apparently she was on the net searching for info on global roaming to
> see what the go is and she came across this thread. Or one of them.

Yeah, had that happen with google a surprising amount.

> She said, "didn't he read the entire message?"

> I said. "I doubt it. He tends to shoot from the lip
> as it were and cops this all the time from others."

> Anyway, she's gonna do whatever she can to terminate
> the contract with Optus when she gets home.

Get her to reread mine about Bobbiting if you dare.

> And it all centres on the salesman at Optus World lying to
> her saying that it will global roam and it's set up for it, etc..

> Interesting times ahead.

> Anyway, apparently London's very nice,

Too soggy for me. And there's all those bloody poms and bombers too.

> as is Paris, but ****ing expensive to live there. And we could
> take a tip or two from their taxi services, particularly Melbourne.

I've always thought the poms had the silliest ideas,
their unique vehicles used for taxis in spades.

They do make their monkeys know their routes tho.

> Personally, I'll be glad when it's all over.
> I'm starting to run out of clean clothes...

You wont be if she gets a bit carried away with the Bobbitting.

> She then asked me. "who's this Michael dick that abused you? Talk about
> rude!"

LOL.

> Eh?
>
> Apparently she was on the net searching for info on global roaming to see
> what
> the go is and she came across this thread. Or one of them. She said,
> "didn't he
> read the entire message?"

She just overlooked the fact that her husband doesnt know the basics of the
Privacy Act

> Anyway, she's gonna do whatever she can to terminate the contract with
> Optus

good luck, you'll need it

> Personally, I'll be glad when it's all over. I'm starting to run out of
> clean
> clothes...

tool
>

Rod Speed wrote...

> > manual and got a list of available networks. She chose them all, one
> > at a time, obviously. Then tried to make a call. Just got an error beep.
>
> Did it work in yankeeland ?

No. Same thing happened. Get a few networks, try to connect to them then try to
make a call and got error beeps.

> You didnt realise that she checks up on you eh |-)

That ain't the half of it. I had a laptop set up in the family room with Yawcam
running (the laptop has a web cam). She wanted to log in from time to time to
check things out. So, I had to make sure that the joint wasn't a mess...

Snapper <[email protected]> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>>> manual and got a list of available networks. She chose them all, one
>>> at a time, obviously. Then tried to make a call. Just got an error beep.

>> Did it work in yankeeland ?

> No. Same thing happened. Get a few networks, try to
> connect to them then try to make a call and got error beeps.

OK, clearly Optarse has ****ed up all over again.

Time for a comprehensive Bobbitting when she gets home.

>> You didnt realise that she checks up on you eh |-)

> That ain't the half of it. I had a laptop set up in the family
> room with Yawcam running (the laptop has a web cam).
> She wanted to log in from time to time to check things out.
> So, I had to make sure that the joint wasn't a mess...

Maybe better to not tell her about Bobbitting |-(

Michael <[email protected]> wrote

>> She then asked me. "who's this Michael dick that abused you? Talk about rude!"

> LOL.

You wont be laughing when she reads the bit about Bobbitting.

>> Eh?

>> Apparently she was on the net searching for info on global roaming to see what the go is and she came across this
>> thread. Or one of them. She said, "didn't he read the entire message?"

> She just overlooked the fact that her husband doesnt know the basics
> of the Privacy Act

The Privacy Act does NOT prevent him passing on the message
that they ****ed up the roaming completely, you stupid pig ignorant
completely illiterate arse licking dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>> Anyway, she's gonna do whatever she can to terminate the contract with Optus

> good luck, you'll need it

Nope, if they cant deliver what the customer paid for, they get to provide a full refund,
you stupid pig ignorant completely illiterate arse licking dunny cleaning ****wit child.

>> Personally, I'll be glad when it's all over. I'm starting to run out of clean clothes...

> tool

Stupid pig ignorant completely illiterate arse licking dunny cleaning ****wit child.

Michael wrote...

> She just overlooked the fact that her husband doesnt know the basics of the
> Privacy Act

Nope. And as usual your obnoxiousness shines through.

Do you get specialised training for this at Telstra or does it come naturally?

Further, you really need to brush up on your reading/comprehension skills. The
issue at hand isn't so much me able to access her account. We were able to
establish this from the outset, after I gave it a shot, knowing it probably
would fail and my wife giving me authorisation.

That was all explained in previous emails if you'd bother to read them in their
entirety, and not just grab onto the first sentence.

> > Anyway, she's gonna do whatever she can to terminate the contract with
> > Optus
>
> good luck, you'll need it

Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on what Optus has to say when she raises this with it
when she gets home. The TIO reamed Optus once before on her behalf over a
billing ****up. It may happen again.

Anyway, she just called from Changi airport. No roaming, even at the home of
Optus. She's got a pre-paid SIM. Not sure which provider, though. Doesn't
matter. She SMS'ed me. I called her back via Mynetfone VOIP for a flat ten cent
call. Not bad, huh?



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On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:27:40 +1000 Snapper
<[email protected]> wrote:

> > She just overlooked the fact that her husband doesnt know the
> > basics of the Privacy Act
>
> Nope. And as usual your obnoxiousness shines through.
>
> Do you get specialised training for this at Telstra or does it come
> naturally?

Maybe you can't get a job at Tel$tra unless you are obnoxious?