topic Re: Rip off Britain in Off-Topic

Rip off Britain

MI5 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:33:04 GMT

Heads up - on BBC1 now.

Running a story about rip off mobile phone bills later in programme.

adamtemp64 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:37:39 GMT

Thanks will catch it up on plus 1

Cleoriff — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:40:35 GMT

Thanks Rich... I missed it so will get it on Catch up...

MI5 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:52:10 GMT

adamtemp64 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 18:58:09 GMT

Thanks @MI5 wow that old chestnut

Cleoriff — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:02:44 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
Reported first on here
http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Other-Products-Services/Accidental-MMS-Sending-and-How-to-Avoid-it/td-p/689503

Do you work for the BBC?

MI5 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:05:29 GMT

and it was EE that got a slating too

Beenherebefore — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:16:47 GMT

And Samsung

MI5 — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:29:13 GMT

@Beenherebefore wrote:
And Samsung

To be fair, the phone was set up incorrectly, but Samsung have now addressed the issue by making unicode the default message creation setting.

Beenherebefore — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 19:57:31 GMT

Yes, they did say that Samsung were dealing with it.

jonsie — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 03:35:29 GMT

I'll catch it later on iplayer. Thanks for the headsup