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A BRITISH MOBILE network has apologised after selling a customer a faulty iPhone that saw him run up an uncontrollable bill worth over €23,000.
Essex man Chris Bovis first noticed something was wrong when his network, Orange, cut off his phone without any prior warning.
When he contacted Orange to inquire about his disconnection, he was told that his monthly bill payment had been rejected – which was understandable, as his monthly total had reached an eye-watering £8,907 (€10,927).
Furthermore, The Sun reports, Bovis was advised that his bill for the next month had already reached £10,000 (€12,277).
The 26-year-old brought his phone to an Apple store where it was found that the handset was faulty – with an unspecified error that led it to download and upload massive quantities of data on a near-continual basis without user consent.
The BBC reported that a replacement handset was given – but Orange still tried to charge him £400 per month to repay the total, and then to charge him a capped one-off fee of £300.
The mobile network has since admitted it was wrong to ask the customer to pay for a faulty phone, and has cancelled the bill.
“We are happy to reduce the bill to zero as soon as we have received confirmation of the fault from his manufacturer,” a spokesman told The Sun.
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Announcing a jobs plan without detail is pie in the sky. It cannot be measured and it can not be assessed for its success or failure.
It like saying Ireland will be the best little country to do business in by 2016. Better than whom and compared to what?
I can see the steam rising off the FG/LAB bulshit from 80km on. Clear day.
Have any of these jobs plans ever created jobs apart from the people employed to waste the millions carrying out the useless job plan ?
Enough talk from the government about job creation it`s time for them to walk the walk and stop the bullshit
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