"Horry" <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Three prevents prepaid customers from using mobile data because it can't
> monitor data usage in real-time. There's a 24-48 hour lag. In other
> words, Three has no way to allow prepaid customers access to mobile data
> without running the risk that they'll use more data than their "available
> credit" entitles them to.

Telstra used to have the same limitation with sms on prepaid. It was
possible (and actually happened) that people with $5.00 credit would run up
a couple of hundred dollars of SMS within a day. The debt was wiped
automatically during the billing cycle.

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Kwyj.