Jan thinking about going with Verizon

[brian roth]

A blurb on VeloNews that falls into the man bites dog cagegory:

"Jan Ullrich's team sponsor T-Mobile was left red-faced after
forgetting to pay their star cyclist's telephone bill, resulting in
his line being cut."

 

[Sonarrat]

On 12 Oct 2004 11:06:40 -0700, [email protected] (brian roth)
wrote:

>A blurb on VeloNews that falls into the man bites dog cagegory:
>
>"Jan Ullrich's team sponsor T-Mobile was left red-faced after
>forgetting to pay their star cyclist's telephone bill, resulting in
>his line being cut."

My best friend had a similar mix-up happen to him, although Ullrich's
is much more public of course. My friend wound up writing a long
letter to the president of the company, and his service was eventually
cancelled and his $200 contract-termination fee was waived.

I also have a T-Mobile phone, and I have the bizarre problem of my
voice mail being a loop of piano music and not the computerized
message I'm pretty sure I set up. I will keep the phone for now but I
will not be renewing once the year is up...

-Sonarrat.

 

[Kyle Legate]

Sonarrat wrote:
> I also have a T-Mobile phone, and I have the bizarre problem of my
> voice mail being a loop of piano music and not the computerized
> message I'm pretty sure I set up. I will keep the phone for now but I
> will not be renewing once the year is up...
>
Whatever you have, it's not as bad as Vodafone. Strike that one from your
list of options.

 

[Sonarrat]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:58:25 +0200, "Kyle Legate"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Sonarrat wrote:
>> I also have a T-Mobile phone, and I have the bizarre problem of my
>> voice mail being a loop of piano music and not the computerized
>> message I'm pretty sure I set up. I will keep the phone for now but I
>> will not be renewing once the year is up...
>>
>Whatever you have, it's not as bad as Vodafone. Strike that one from your
>list of options.

Verizon is actually the local phone company here, and if I had talked
it over with my parents first I certainly would have bought a phone
from Verizon rather than going by trade-team allegiance.

-Sonarrat.

 

[Howard Kveck]

In article <[email protected]>, Sonarrat <>
wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:58:25 +0200, "Kyle Legate"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Sonarrat wrote:
> >> I also have a T-Mobile phone, and I have the bizarre problem of my
> >> voice mail being a loop of piano music and not the computerized
> >> message I'm pretty sure I set up. I will keep the phone for now but I
> >> will not be renewing once the year is up...
> >>
> >Whatever you have, it's not as bad as Vodafone. Strike that one from your
> >list of options.
>
> Verizon is actually the local phone company here, and if I had talked
> it over with my parents first I certainly would have bought a phone
> from Verizon rather than going by trade-team allegiance.
>
> -Sonarrat.

Which is a somewhat unhappy result of "supporting the sponsor" of you
favorite team/event/player/etc.

--
tanx,
Howard

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