T-Mobile blocks MinuteWatcher from tracking cell minutes
Way to go T-Mobile! Way to piss off your customer base. As if MinuteWatcher was sucking gobs of bandwidth to pull the customer's cellphone usage. I don't think so. The data downloaded was probably less than 2,000 bytes. Even if it was a bit larger, I'm sure T-Mobile has the bandwidth available. This is clearly designed to block customers from knowing exactly how many minutes left they have on their plan before they start incurring expensive overage charges.
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Comments to T-Mobile blocks MinuteWatcher from tracking cell minutes
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Tom Keating
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July 12, 2006 8:44 PMThanks for the tip, Phoneboy. I don't have T-Mobile, so I didn't know they had a shortcut for acquiring the minutes. Still, restricting scripts from accessing their website seems a bit overboard. Maybe someone may want to write a script that retrieves his/her voicemail and emails it or something.
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PhoneBoy :
July 12, 2006 8:47 PMWhat would be better would be to create an XMLRPC API (or something similar) to allow script kiddies to "have fun" as opposed to screen-scraping the T-Mobile portal. Now that would be cool.
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voip requirements list :
August 29, 2007 7:52 PMthis is disapointing but they seem to have taken care of the situation. minutes can be tracked via mytomobile and from the handset itself. happy to see a telecom do something to makes its customers happy.
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PhoneBoy :
July 12, 2006 8:30 PM
You can dial #646# from your T-Mobile phone and you get your number of minutes used instantly. So how is this preventing people from knowing when they're going into overage territory exactly?