We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.
This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
The Forum now has a brand new text editor, adding a bunch of handy features to use when creating posts. Read more in our how-to guide
Downloading more than 40GB is illegal! LOL
dagger_meerkat
Posts: 290 Forumite
Was on the phone to a o2 cpw rep today discussin my mobile contract, and as always at the end, the salesmanship starts!
And this was the most amusing of them all. He wanted me to subscribe to Talk Talk Broadband and the usual conversation started regarding prices, and convenience. And then came the issue of usage caps which I promptly asked him about. Doesn't mention anything at first, and then suddenly the light of realisation flashes, and he mentions "Oh yes, we do have a download cap of 40GB" .. and I am like "That's not enough at all for me, me being a heavy user and all" ..
His response was "If you are downloading more than 40GB, then its illegal!" :rotfl:
I couldn't stop cracking up and ended up saying "I should be in Jail right now for downloading over 200GB!"
These guys must be getting very good commissions to come up with such desperate last measures of convincing customers!
And this was the most amusing of them all. He wanted me to subscribe to Talk Talk Broadband and the usual conversation started regarding prices, and convenience. And then came the issue of usage caps which I promptly asked him about. Doesn't mention anything at first, and then suddenly the light of realisation flashes, and he mentions "Oh yes, we do have a download cap of 40GB" .. and I am like "That's not enough at all for me, me being a heavy user and all" ..
His response was "If you are downloading more than 40GB, then its illegal!" :rotfl:
I couldn't stop cracking up and ended up saying "I should be in Jail right now for downloading over 200GB!"
These guys must be getting very good commissions to come up with such desperate last measures of convincing customers!
0
Comments
-
well lets be honest, are you downloading over 200gb of legal material?
doubtful
0 -
Well, if nothing else .. I will jus lay my blame on never-ending windows updates!
0 -
Just between us - what are you downloading that takes you over 40gb a month ?0
-
Play loads of games, and most game demos nowdays are easily between 350-500 megs, game patches, and well, the connection is shared between three other computers. So there's a lot of activity! And I suppose you haven't heard of binary newsgroups either, eh? 0
-
haha!
i'm sure theres plenty of ways to over shadow the warez 0 -
What's a binary newsgroup ?0
-
something thats illegal to discuss on this forum [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
- Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate[/FONT]0
This discussion has been closed.
Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply
Categories
- All Categories
- 354.4K Banking & Borrowing
- 254.4K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
- 455.4K Spending & Discounts
- 247.3K Work, Benefits & Business
- 604.1K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
- 178.5K Life & Family
- 261.6K Travel & Transport
- 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
- 16K Discuss & Feedback
- 37.7K Read-Only Boards