PC Pro: a normally sensible web site has apparently started to be "leaned on" by the Mobile Network Providers, nothing else would allow them to print this, without a demand for misleading claims by the network providers to be stopped.
In recent months there have been several cases of people running up extremely large bills by using mobile phone data packages as mobile broadband connections.
In January a Vodafone customer was served with a bill for £27,000, after having downloaded "20 or 30" television shows over his mobile data package, believing that it included unlimited data.
"The thing with any broadband is that you really need to read the terms and conditions and know what you're signing up for. It's just a case of knowing what you're going to be using," explains Mcardle.
WRONG Mcardel! why should we have to check the very very small print mobile networks love so much, to see if they are going to rip us off? That is total bollocks.
What NEEDS to happen is for the advertising standards authority to stamp on the mobile networks and STOP THEM from making deliberately misleading statements such as "Unlimited Mobile Internet" Its like advertising"Alcohol Free Beer" you later discover the beer contains 1.5% Alcohol
But when you check you find the company has "small print" stating *note "alcohol free" refers to products containing less than 2% alcohol, its gobbledegook!! you and I would never get away with it.
Yet the powerful mobile networks seem to be governed by a completely different set of rules to the rest of UK business.
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