Hi.  What the others seem NOT to have mentioned is this:   If you have an active goodybag when you go abroad, your data and calls while abroad will be cheaper (same as UK PAYG costs), but they all have to be paid for out of your airtime credit.  The goodybag isn't actually used while abroad, but you do need to have one to get the cheap rates!   If you do not have an active goodybag, then you wwill have to pay the higher 'roaming' costs whilst abroad, and that can be expensive.   When you come back into the UK, then the goodybag will take over, and will continue to give you calls and data until it expires as normal after 30 days.   Which goodybag you use is up to you, as while you are abroad it will not be depleted in any way. ... View more

@terran_federation  So, what has changed?  Are you now getting 4G, or is the improvement you see on 3G?  My experience shows a jump in performance around the time 4G became more available in my local area, which may have lightened the load on 3G channels as well.  I still frequently find only 'G' (GPRS?) available to me when out and about in the non-urban areas, but 4G seems to still be spreading wider and wider. ... View more

There's an interesting article in the Guardian today covering this issue. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/29/smartphone-war-operators-user-phone-service?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=192674&subid=17931497&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2   So, do you see your mobile phone as a thing that you buy, or a service that you pay monthly for? ... View more

Hey @iain_english the post you are replying to is now about6 weeks old, and the OP never came back to us so I assume he got sorted out. ... View more

Thanks @navi51.  I doubt there will be much America's Cup on freeview, but I already know that I can stream it.  There is occasional 'magazine' style coverage on the BBC, but not much and very little way to predict what they will show.  Thanks for the heads up about the mobile App, I wasn't aware of that.  Of course, all this depends on whether you regard 50+kts on a foil as 'sailing'.    I'm interested, but it's not really what I enjoy. I know sailing is a minority sport, and not often suitable for spectators, but I was really bemoaning the concentration on football which never now seems to have much of a closed season, and is on more than once a week at the expense of very many other sports.  For instance, I wonder when we will see hockey broadcast again?  Lots of comment on the radio today about how much people enjoyed watching it "by accident", and some saying it's better to watch than modern football. ... View more

gbr45 wrote: A good games gonna miss havin sport on tap to watch Depending on your sport.  There's football every week, athletics at intervals, golf twice a year, tennis once a year.  It will be four years before I can watch any sailing on freeview again.  :-( ... View more

@navi51  I feel sorry for him, for having such a suggestive name . . . ... View more

@jammydodge Nice article, thanks.  I can't seem to switch off my internal proof reader though, sorry.   Started reading this, and jarred at the first sentence.  "The Olympic Games held years . . . "  Not sure what you meant to say, I'm sorry that I can't even get it from the context.  I'll ignore that and try to carry on not proof reading.    Sixth paragraph:  "while remaining aware of the distance they had yet to. "   Yes, I lose count of the lengths sometimes while I'm doing my humble slow 2k.   Do you have any details about the sensors embedded in the TaiKwonDo socks, gloves, padding and helmet?  I was unsure how it didn't seem to register hits that I thought I saw, and did register ones I could only see in the slowmo.  My eyesight must be worse than I thought, but they do move very fast.     ... View more

Jade's final should screen about 2am.  I'm not stopping up for that.  What a pity the BBC did not show her semi-final against the Swede, but only the previous bout against the Morrocan.  It's like in the sailing, they showed the 470 ladies starting a safe last, but neglected to say that they managed to finish in eighth place, even though they didn't need to compete to win the gold, only to finish safely without any penalties against them.  Austria and USA finished behind them.  I would love to have watched that medal race, but it isn't on the iPlayer, and I don't think it went out live. ... View more

As I understand it - O2 customers obviously get preference for bandwidth, Tesco are paying for their share, and Giffgaff are a wholly owned subsidiary of O2 competing with the mother company and with low prices, and are therefore last in line.  When bandwidth is not busy GG will get a good speed, but if there is any contention guess who loses out? ... View more

@navi51  Ha!   Yes, it says "You can catch up on every sport on iPlayer".  That's fine if they have shown any sailing race on their channels, which they do, for a while, and not the one's I'm interested in (not keen on wind surfers).  Trying to find out what happened in yesterday's Finn or 470 or Nacra17 is nearly impossible.  The only way that I have found is to view the whole 168 minutes recap, and listen carefully to the commentators' chatter between races to pick up hints.  The 45 minute "Summary" did not mention the Nacra17 at all! It's just not enough. ... View more

@samanphy  Yes, E means Edge which is pre-3G data, and G is 2G which means you are wasting your time trying :-)   There's a good explanation of the different services you will get on your Android phone here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_phone_standards   It may be worth checking that your phone has 4G enabled, as it can be turned off in some phones. ... View more

@icando  If you are following any of the discussions on the Payback#2 fora it becomes obvious that there are thousands of 'one month only' activations on GG.  Maybe that's why they feel they have to turn the voicemail off if it's not being used?  They would be storing huge amounts of audio data otherwise, to no good purpose. ... View more

Thank you @eddiehk6.  Some good stuff on there, and I have used androidcentral.com before for good information.    Quote from that page: "QuadRooter is one of the many Android security issues that requires you to manually install an app. That means manually going into Security settings and toggling the "Unknown Sources" checkbox."   The touted app tells me that my Samsung S4mini has those same four "vulnerabilities", but I will try not to let it bother me, and now delete that useless app. ... View more

@tids  Anyone thinking anything is bullet proof is risking everything on a false belief.  Even bullet proof is not invulnerable.  Be careful out there and you might live a long life, or die early through no fault of your own. ... View more

Hi everyone!  There are lots of very positive vibes coming off the discussion on here, and I fully appreciate the efforts of our athletes to achieve their ambitions and getting all those medals.    But to put a downer on it, does anyone else feel that the BBC could be doing a bit better on the presentation of their coverage.  I know they don't have control of the cameras, and that's a bit of a shame.  It's understandable that any sport with a Brazillian doing well will get all the camera time, and we may not get much of a look-in.  There's a lot of talking, and if you can put up with the boredom of listening there is often good info in the talk.  But where do you go to get older information on what has happened?  There's plenty of bandwidth on all the BBC channels available, but not much coverage of things you may have missed.  If you are watching one sport, you pretty much have to miss out on the others.   What I am worried about is that it's difficult to find progress reports/results for some of the less popular things.  I follow the sailing, and had to go out last night before they showed the second Nacra 17 Mixed race of the day (it was postponed several times for wind shifts).  When I came home last night I could not find reference to it anywhere on the BBC web page or much anywhere else, and ended up getting the best info on Facebook.  Come on BBC, get with the records and let us know what we have missed out on, even if we can't see the pictures! ... View more

Thanks for that info @figment_uk.  I wasn't aware of those commission payments within payback.  All mine so far has been from activity within the community, and very welcome it is! ... View more

Hi.    1.  What phone are you using please? 2.  Did you do step 6 OK? 3.  Possible solution:  Switch off, remove battery, replace battery, start again.  Be careful to do each step accurately.   Good luck! ... View more

@gregg_b  What you have said is all well and good, but it doesn't address the issue for those that have tried this out and find they are very uncomfortable with it, and they want out!  Luckily, I never went into it myself, so I'm not one of those, and from what I have heard I am well out of it. ... View more

@brulaw @gregg_b  I'm so glad I didn't bite when this first came up - I don't do well on social media (being anti-social, I suppose )  so I declined the 'integration'. So, how is the 'trial' going?  Anyone found guilty yet? ... View more

Seems @alex_w has already got this in hand.  See here.    A miss-set variable in the email structure, it would seem. ... View more

Yeah, there seems to be quite a few of us got an email that shows a wrong total tally.  Howeveer, the total actually awarded will have gone up by the right amount - it's a silly, typical Giffgaff gaffe.    Rest assured, if the total you have accumulated is correct, the number shown in your email doesn't really matter.  ... View more

Me too!  I got 1000 points for helping giffgaffers, but the email tells me I have 700 total.  Thankfully, my total went up by the correct amount of 1700.   I wonder if some of the "I got less payback this month" threads are due to this error, and are just really a simple arithmetic error in the email?  They should go and check their totals! ... View more