Students Must Not Call Abroad
Time to update my homepage, indeed. Let’s do it with some statement. Students must not call abroad, if they use a cellphone subscription of the Swedish telephone company Telia. That’s a fact I faced today, when I was about to make a call to Italy (of which reason I will come to in a future post). I picked up my phone, dialed the number and waited for an Italian to answer me. Instead, I heard a recorded voice telling me that I cannot call this number from this subscription, plus a referring phone number to Telia for details. So I called Telia. They informed me that my salary is beneath the limit for making abroad calls. I need to earn SEK above or equal to 10000 a month.
I was stunned. Could this really be true? And how can they know my salary? How can they be allowed to know my salary in the first place? Well, that’s another point. When I was revealed from my chock, I said that I am a student with about SEK 7000 a month in student subsidies. That’s not enough, because 7000 is less than 10000. Yes, I can agree on that one.
So, keeping to the topic, which is not very far-fetched, a normal student will not be able to call abroad from a Telia cellphone subscription. I don’t know about the policy of other phone companies, but as I have a minimum subscription time of 12 months counted from this summer, I would not be helped by the fact that there may be other options.
Of course, I solved the issue by using VoIP, but that is not the point. I just want to spread this word as a warning to students that are potential cellphone subscribers - do not give your soul to Telia!
It would have been better if they had some kind of expense roof which you were not allowed to exceed. In that case they would let you owe them for example 1000kr but after that you were not allowed to keep calling that month. There goal has to be that they don’t want people to be ruined financially due to phone calling, which I can understand. As I said though, there got to be better solutions.