giffgaff

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Feb 16, 2012, 7:02:54 AM2/16/12

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Hello,

giffgaff is possibly the UK's cheapest mobile network! As a happy user
myself, I'd like to take this opportunity to share giffgaff with you
all...

- Cheap prices and packages (known as goodybags)
- Take your number with you hassle free
- True unlimited data/internet included with most goodybags
- BlackBerry Internet Services (BIS) available from £3
- Backed by market leader Telefonica O2 UK
- Runs on the O2 network - outstanding UK coverage
- £5 credit for joining (Issued upon activation/first top-up - see
below for full details)

[image:
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/r2qbybff87fakp8/goodybags%20-%20Copy.png]
Goodybags can be purchased at anytime from your airtime credit and last
for a calendar month. Once over it's up to you if you want to purchase
again.

£5 FREE credit is given upon activation (first top-up) to users who
signup using SIMs ordered via the link below. (Offer isn't available
directly via the website so be sure to order from below.)

Standard SIM: http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/bitgeek
Micro SIM: http://apps.giffgaff.com/microgaff/bitgeek (For iPhone 4(S)
and some iPads)

'[image: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/r2qbybff87fakp8/06_250x52.png]'
(http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/bitgeek)

'Free a Chicken Campaign' (http://db.tt/woIz1reR)

See you soon :)

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giffgaff

Bob Eager

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Feb 16, 2012, 11:19:10 AM2/16/12

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:02:54 +0000, giffgaff wrote:

(marketing for giffgaff)

It's somewhat dishonest to post eith a username of giffgaff when you are
not actually giffgaff.

Even more to post a link with your affiliate information without
disclosing the fact that you get 5 quid if someone orders a SIM.
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Feb 16, 2012, 1:19:23 PM2/16/12

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Bob Eager wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:02:54 +0000, giffgaff wrote:
>
> (marketing for giffgaff)
>

> you are not actually giffgaff.

I wondered why I'd seen you reply, without seeing the original, then I
remembered, I've "soft-killed" all posts containing
X-Complaints-To: ab...@newsgroupbanter.com

Alan

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Feb 16, 2012, 1:40:09 PM2/16/12

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In message <giffgaff...@cellbanter.com>, giffgaff
<giffgaff...@cellbanter.com> wrote

>
>Hello,
>
>giffgaff is possibly the UK's cheapest mobile network! As a happy user
>myself, I'd like to take this opportunity to share giffgaff with you
>all...
>

It's cheap because their only after sales service has been seriously
broken for the past 3 months or so.

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Clive Page

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Feb 17, 2012, 5:27:32 AM2/17/12

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Hmm, while giffgaff may be ok domestically, I should warn potential
users that roaming overseas is may be much more limited than they claim.

My wife and I have recently returned from a trip to Central America, and
she recently got a giffgaff SIM for her 3-band phone. Before going she
checked from the giffgaff website that they had roaming throughout.
Here experience contradicted this:

Costa Rica: phone registered ok, but any attempt to make a call got a
message that the call was barred.

Panama: also registered ok, but any attempt to make a call got a message
(in English only) "Dear customer your cellphone stop has been activated,
dial *116 for information". She tried to call this number, but it got
"call barred".

Colombia: also registered ok, and could call fixed line numbers in the
UK, but attempts to call a UK mobile number repeatedly failed. Incoming
calls worked.

It would be interesting to know whether this is because giffgaff needs
to negotiate its own roaming agreements with the foreign cellphone
companies and it has made a mess of these, or whether it relies upon the
O2 roaming agreements, and these are defective?

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Andrew Benham

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Feb 17, 2012, 7:11:16 AM2/17/12

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http://travelabroad.o2-uktech.com/coverage.php tells me that if
you're on PAYG on O2 then Costa Rica is out, Panama is OK using
Movistar, and Colombia OK with Comtel and Telefonica Moviles.

Steve Terry

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Feb 17, 2012, 7:45:15 AM2/17/12

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Clive Page wrote:
> Hmm, while giffgaff may be ok domestically, I should warn potential
> users that roaming overseas is may be much more limited than they
> claim.

<snip>
>
As UK PAYG sims for roaming are so limited as to what networks
they can roam on i wouldn't use any

A Zero contract sim like Orange OVP Virgin with full roaming is good,
but a local sim will get you the best rates.

Steve Terry
--
Get a free GiffGaff PAYG Sim and £5 bonus after activation at:
http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/gfourwwk

Victor Delta

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Feb 23, 2012, 6:55:34 PM2/23/12

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"Andrew Benham" <ad...@address.invalid> wrote in message
news:jhlg52$jhm$1...@speranza.aioe.org...

We're going to China shortly. Does anyone know if giffgaff works there?

There are also limitations on ships where one cannot make o/g calls or send
texts via the MCP service (unlike O2 users).

V

Soruk

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Feb 23, 2012, 8:30:24 PM2/23/12

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On 2012-02-23, Victor Delta <no...@nospam.com> wrote:
> We're going to China shortly. Does anyone know if giffgaff works there?

You'll be lucky - though it would be good to know. Of the main 5,
only O2 claims to be able to roam with PAYG, and outside of the Beijing
you have to use a callback system of calling - though I've not tried this.

Lycamobile (which uses O2) claims to roam in China and even asking their
customer service peeps they confirmed it would, but the SIM I have
resolutely failed to register anywhere in the areas of Shenzhen, Kaiping,
Jiangmen and Guangzhou. (It did work in Hong Kong.)

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Analogue Cheese ...

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Feb 24, 2012, 3:07:36 AM2/24/12

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> We're going to China shortly. Does anyone know if giffgaff works there?
>

I heard a while back you can't take a mobile phone into China.........

Second Stage Lensman

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Feb 24, 2012, 3:13:43 AM2/24/12

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>>"Analogue Cheese ..." wrote in message
>>news:9zH1r.102619$ZT6....@newsfe23.ams2... We're going to China shortly.

>>Does anyone know if giffgaff works there?
>
>
>I heard a while back you can't take a mobile phone into China.........

Yes you can - I took two!

Analogue Cheese ...

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Feb 24, 2012, 3:34:37 AM2/24/12

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"Second Stage Lensman" <!nospam!@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:ji7grm$5uk$1...@speranza.aioe.org...

few years ago I got a faulty one sent to me from China and when I went to
post it back at the Post Office mobile phones were on the list of things
that could not be posted to China ...... honest!

DrTeeth

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Feb 24, 2012, 7:09:51 PM2/24/12

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On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:13:43 -0000, just as I was about to take a
herb, "Second Stage Lensman" <!nospam!@nospam.invalid> disturbed my

reverie and wrote:

>Yes you can - I took two!

Did 'they' find them?
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Martin Jay

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Feb 25, 2012, 9:23:32 AM2/25/12

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On 16 Feb 2012 16:19:10 GMT, "dishonest" Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx>

wrote:

>(marketing for giffgaff)
>
>It's somewhat dishonest to post eith a username of giffgaff when you are
>not actually giffgaff.
>
>Even more to post a link with your affiliate information without
>disclosing the fact that you get 5 quid if someone orders a SIM.

Says one "dishonest" spammer to another.

Pot meets kettle:

----- Begin Quote -----

From: Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx>
Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile
Subject: Re: True 'old fashioned' PAYG
Date: 8 Feb 2012 01:31:07 GMT
Message-ID: <9pe1ir...@mid.individual.net>

Hello David

If you feel like it, just click here:

http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/ ["affiliate code posted by
"dishonest" spammer removed.]

----- End Quote -----

IIRC advertising is banned in this newsgroup anyway. But being a
"dishonest" spammer you probably don't care about that.
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Bob Eager

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Feb 25, 2012, 10:40:53 AM2/25/12

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Did you see any affiliate link in my post? No.

Bob Eager

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Feb 25, 2012, 10:42:19 AM2/25/12

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And the post you quote wasn't dishonest. I clearly disclosed that it was
an affiliate link.

You must be very, very sad to spend the time searching all the way back
for what was actually a perfectly honest post.

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:23:32 +0000, Martin Jay wrote:

Graham.

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Feb 25, 2012, 3:21:34 PM2/25/12

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there is probably a big difference between posting a phone to China,
and a visitor carrying one for their own use.

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alexd

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Feb 25, 2012, 3:32:36 PM2/25/12

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Martin Jay (for it is he) wrote:

> On 16 Feb 2012 16:19:10 GMT, "dishonest" Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx>
> wrote:

>>Even more to post a link with your affiliate information without
>>disclosing the fact that you get 5 quid if someone orders a SIM.
>
> Says one "dishonest" spammer to another.
>
> Pot meets kettle:

> Message-ID: <9pe1ir...@mid.individual.net>

Note that it does say a couple of posts upthread to Bob's, [which Bob quoted
but you didn't] that the affiliate gets a fiver too, and he posted in
response to a solicitation for such information. Your posting strikes me as
being malevolently economical with the quoting, to what end I've no idea.

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