On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Jason Lade <jason@docpc.com.au> wrote:
Now what really blows me away is that I realised these charges today were happening while she was at home using wifi. So I spoke with an optus representative online via text, here is some of the text that I copied from the conversation, please note it isn't the full conversation as personal details were required.
Maybe the phone had some transient Wifi issue and fell back to 3G. You can configure any smart-phone not to have 3G data access, for data access to work you need to have an APN etc configured, if you set it to a bogus value it SHOULD disable 3G. Also for Android phones there are a number of programs which can disable 3G after a certain amount of data use, set one of those to prevent you using more than 0% of your bandwidth and it should be OK. On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
So, the currently available options from my provider don't suit for emergency calls or SMS. However, a "real" emergency call can be made without even having a SIM in a phone (000 calls).
http://etbe.coker.com.au/2012/04/23/neighborhood-watch/ You should test that theory. Last night I discovered that CyanogenMod 7 doesn't accept 000 as an emergency number and Optus (the carrier for Virgin Mobile) doesn't accept 112. As I had a phone with a working SIM all I had to do was to unlock it and make a regular call to 000 (which is easier said than done in such a situation). With no SIM it would be impossible. I suggest testing every phone for 000 calls. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/