"Kwyjibo" <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote in message
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> "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.
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> 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.

Sometimes hundreds of dollars worth :-)

RIP Prepayment.