3.. The UK's first fully digital 3G network With superfast data and video calling. within just a few years, they've built up a decent sized customer base, dut to their superior technology & much cheaper prices.
3 UK are a cellphone company set up a few years ago by Hutchinson Whampoa - a massively rich Hong Kong company. They are the same people who launched Orange back in the 90s.
3 UK became popular because of video calling, fast data and, of course, cheaper prices overall. However, it was a product called '3 Like Home' which really made it for 3 UK. This was a fantastic deal which cost nothing and allowed you to use your cellphone in some countries abroad - for no additional costs, called 'roaming charges'.
This saves holiday makers & business travellers perhaps hundreds of pounds, and for the first time ever, allowed us to use out cellphones abroad without facing terrifying bills upon out return home.
In what must be one of the most stupid business decisions ever made - a suicidal move by 3 UK, they recently announced they were finishing 3 Like Home, and would charge 'normal roaming charges' - which are actually more than the other UK cellphone companies charge. The result - it'll be too expensive to take your cellphone on holiday.
This badly formulated cock-up of a plan has gone down like a Hog Roast in a Mosque, especialy as 3 UK's lawyers have said that they're breaking their own terms & conditions, meaning that Customers can simply phone up - and cancel their contracts immediately.
Within 48 hours, 3's useless (and most frustrating) call center oven in Bombay, India has literally been swamped with angry callers, demanding cancellation and transfer codes, called 'PACs'.
Over 250,000 people have already gotten their codes, and that caused their systems to jam. There are now a similar number of requests in the queue... and 3 UK looks in danger of becoming a ghost town.. with customers hemorraging from the network like thieves from a crime scene, or MPs after an expenses claim form.
3 UK are now panicking bigtime. Up to half a million people left or leaving the network, and more to follow, awful publicity and a disasterous business decision. Hutchison Whamopoa are said to be 'fuming' with 3, and are said to be withdrawing funds. They did the same with 3 Australia - which promptly got sold off, and is now... Vodafone Oz!
The reason why 3 Like Home is being scrapped?
Could it be:
... Because people in the UK 'don't understand it'... (ie, we're too stupid!) ??
... Because it's not good value for money (ie, for them!!) ??
Well, those are the weak - and wholly unbelievable excuses offered by the morons at 3.
In reality - it's much more simple...
... Because 3 UK are greedy bastards who want more money from us, but who have badly misjudged their UK market!
Looking into TORCHWOOD's CRYSTAL BALLS... (always a revelation!)
3 UK will go into administration fairly soon.
3 UK wll cease to exist as an independent cellphone network.
3 UK will be taken over, probably by Vodafone, possibly by T-Mobile.
3 UK became popular because of video calling, fast data and, of course, cheaper prices overall. However, it was a product called '3 Like Home' which really made it for 3 UK. This was a fantastic deal which cost nothing and allowed you to use your cellphone in some countries abroad - for no additional costs, called 'roaming charges'.
This saves holiday makers & business travellers perhaps hundreds of pounds, and for the first time ever, allowed us to use out cellphones abroad without facing terrifying bills upon out return home.
In what must be one of the most stupid business decisions ever made - a suicidal move by 3 UK, they recently announced they were finishing 3 Like Home, and would charge 'normal roaming charges' - which are actually more than the other UK cellphone companies charge. The result - it'll be too expensive to take your cellphone on holiday.
This badly formulated cock-up of a plan has gone down like a Hog Roast in a Mosque, especialy as 3 UK's lawyers have said that they're breaking their own terms & conditions, meaning that Customers can simply phone up - and cancel their contracts immediately.
Within 48 hours, 3's useless (and most frustrating) call center oven in Bombay, India has literally been swamped with angry callers, demanding cancellation and transfer codes, called 'PACs'.
Over 250,000 people have already gotten their codes, and that caused their systems to jam. There are now a similar number of requests in the queue... and 3 UK looks in danger of becoming a ghost town.. with customers hemorraging from the network like thieves from a crime scene, or MPs after an expenses claim form.
3 UK are now panicking bigtime. Up to half a million people left or leaving the network, and more to follow, awful publicity and a disasterous business decision. Hutchison Whamopoa are said to be 'fuming' with 3, and are said to be withdrawing funds. They did the same with 3 Australia - which promptly got sold off, and is now... Vodafone Oz!
The reason why 3 Like Home is being scrapped?
Could it be:
... Because people in the UK 'don't understand it'... (ie, we're too stupid!) ??
... Because it's not good value for money (ie, for them!!) ??
Well, those are the weak - and wholly unbelievable excuses offered by the morons at 3.
In reality - it's much more simple...
... Because 3 UK are greedy bastards who want more money from us, but who have badly misjudged their UK market!
Looking into TORCHWOOD's CRYSTAL BALLS... (always a revelation!)
3 UK will go into administration fairly soon.
3 UK wll cease to exist as an independent cellphone network.
3 UK will be taken over, probably by Vodafone, possibly by T-Mobile.
A disastrous business decision has put 3 in real danger of collapse in the UK. Analysts now fear 3 won't survive, and global cellphone giants like the UK's Vodafone & Germany's T-Mobile are poised to take them over.
Watch this space - but if you're with 3 UK, give em a call. If you get a bit angry & mention '3 Like Home' >> they're handing out discounts like they're going out of Fashion!
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