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		<title>Three mobile broadband rip-off</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been a Three mobile broadband customer for a few months now and found the service just about ok. I was getting fed up of buying vouchers in my local Three retail store to top up every month so decided to regicter a credidt card on their customer service (Ha!) portal. This would let [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been a Three mobile broadband customer for a few months now and found the service just about ok.</p>
<p>I was getting fed up of buying vouchers in my local Three retail store to top up every month so decided to regicter a credidt card on their customer service (Ha!) portal. This would let me top up online when needed &#8211; what a bloody mistake.</p>
<p>On registering the card details, the system tells you that it can take 7 days to complete registration &#8211; fine I thought I can wait. Then I noticed that their system had instantly credited £10 to my account &#8211; I chcked my credit card company online and they confimed that the £10 had been taken. Ok, good stuff I now had £10 &#8211; or 1GB monthly data transfer limit available.</p>
<p>Two days later and after only several minutes or so of total online time, my connection stopped working. I logged into the portal and the £10 data allowance had rocketed down to zero. Eh ?</p>
<p>Called their dreadful outsourced to India customer service department and was informed that the £10 credit has been applied as a voice credit ! and that by using data I had gobbled up the allowance in a matter of minutes at a rate of £1/MB !!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>So why on earth would an account that has been setup for a moblie broadband dongle (and configured so in the &#8216;my mobile device&#8217; section of the site) have a voice credit assigned.</p>
<p>Of course they customer service guy (twat) explained that it was all my fault for being so stupid and not realising I needed to &#8216;covert&#8217; my credit to a data allowance.</p>
<p>What complete and utter dick head designed Three&#8217;s customer self service portal application ?</p>
<p>Or is this a deliberate ploy by Three to stiff customers ?<br />
£1000 per GB &#8211; Three you are taking the piss.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not the only one:<br />
<a href="http://www.bestmobilebroadband.co.uk/3-mobile-broadband-reviews.aspx">http://www.bestmobilebroadband.co.uk/3-mobile-broadband-reviews.aspx </a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.talk3g.co.uk/showthread.php?p=27238">http://www.talk3g.co.uk/showthread.php?p=27238 </a></p>

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