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They can't even afford to pay for stock images: http://www.uk01.mobi/images/1925940_celltower.jpg
And "UK01 local mobile phone service is available in a growing number of locations, look for on site UK01 branding and introduction material.
UK01 services are also available from any telephone even when outside UK01 coverage areas and offers excellent value with full messaging support for both voice and SMS."
So where can I buy one today, now? "Is Available" means what? It actually *Is Available* now, or in 12 months? or is this just another super example of the mobile industry taking words like Free, Unlimited, Open etc and applying their own definitions? Except UK01 have now redefined present & future.
Oh, and here's a link to the veritable plethora of people clamouring to deal with the parent company.
{tumbleweed} was never more appropriate.
'nuff said.
Next.
Ignoring all the fucked-company signs from the outset (.mobi, the stock photo thing, missing pages, typo'd html, EMEI when they mean IMEI, etc etc etc) the service is clearly rubbish. Presumably with the hope to eventually be able to offer "poor" coverage (rather than none at all), from base stations located on an already diminishing number of vandalism-prone phone boxes. Then you've either got to muck about changing SIMs, or, if you don't want to do that you can instead mess around with the settings on the handset, which amounts to much the same thing; ignoring the fact that they presumably have NO WAY WHATSOEVER to authenticate the handset.
Sure changing the IMEI of a handset is illegal; but it's also technically trivial.
Who would fund such a thing?
See http://tinyurl.com/3f8b6h to look at how this was done in the 90's
Andrew
Sorry, restraining orders and all that - stupid legal system.
:)
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