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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Glad we are not with them after there break in...
Several 100'000 customers left with no service after a breakin at one of there places last night 
Tony |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"was it a break in or a deliberate protest against alleged tax avoidance?  "
Oooh I do hope so is this going to be known as the technical revolution because we don't take to the streets? Industrial espionage and direct action by defectors sounds so attractive! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm with o2 and for the last week I've hardly been able to make or receive a call - on both my o2 phones - maybe they've had a break in too 
According to them, it's a network fault which they are working on night and day to resolve and for my trouble they've given me the princely sum of £10 per account then they went on to tell me that they won't give me any more compensation regardless of how long it takes to fix the fault ..
Oh ! It's like that is it Mr. o2 ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"was it a break in or a deliberate protest against alleged tax avoidance? "
Coincidentally, April's GQ magazine carries an apology to Vodaphone for accusations made in Jan 2011 edition about Vodaphone not paying tax and that parts of V's UK business were based Luxembourg. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"was it a break in or a deliberate protest against alleged tax avoidance?
Coincidentally, April's GQ magazine carries an apology to Vodaphone for accusations made in Jan 2011 edition about Vodaphone not paying tax and that parts of V's UK business were based Luxembourg."
I only know what i'd read online,there does some to be some differing views but what I read was
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The story first originated in the current affairs magazine Private Eye (1273, 3-16 Sept, 2010) and then spread to other outlets.
The issue started when Vodafone bought the German engineering company Mannesmann a decade ago for €180bn, using an offshore company in Luxembourg. Private Eye says:
An epic legal battle began, with Vodafone resisting the taxman’s efforts to get all the information on the deal and arguing through the courts that the British laws striking out the tax benefits of its deal were neutered by European law which granted, Vodafone claimed, the freedom to establish anywhere in the EU (including its dodgiest tax havens) without facing a tax bill.
The battle continued until last year when the HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) head Dave Hartnett, known to be “friendly” to big multinationals, moved the case to a department more willing to cut a deal.
The fruits of these talks, conducted without consulting HMRC’s litigators and specialists in the tax law concerned on the chance of success in the courts, was a bill for Vodafone of £800m, with another £450m payable over five years and, remarkably, an agreement that the arrangement can carry on into the future with a promise of no challenge from HMRC. The Eye understands that the settlement also swept up several other Vodafone tax avoidance schemes.
The amount of money forgone is estimated to be £6 billion.
Vodafone owe money not just to the UK taxpayer but also in India, where a court rejected their appeal (reg. reqd.) and asked them to pay $2 billion in tax for buying an Indian company. The charity Action Aid says that money could feed lots of starving people in India.
But the HMRC said it was an ‘urban myth‘?
One former Revenue & Customs official familiar with the case told Private Eye it was an “unbelievable cave-in”.
The man who negotiated on behalf of Vodafone for its tax settlement – John Connors – had worked at HMRC until April 2007. When Vodafone hired him, he simply moved to the other side of the negotiating table on this matter.
As Richard Murphy said at the Guardian, days after it was announced, Osborne was promoting Vodafone in India – a visit that must have been agreed before the tax announcement was made on 23 July.
Forbes magazine blog also says there is a lot that doesn’t sit right with the issue.
The settlement also signalled a “more conciliatory approach” at the HMRC, said the Financial Times in July, and coincided with Chancellor George Osborne’s pledge to make Britain “open for business”. Osborne said the rules, demanding multinationals are more transparent about their tax structures, added too much red tape.
The watered down deal allows the HMRC to claim ‘success’ at wringing something out of Vodafone at least. No wonder they want to dismiss this as an ‘urban myth’. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My work phone is with Vodafone so it was a very quiet day today for.me 
Mine too 
Sky news said it seemed to be confined to the M4 corridor"
The very reason my boss couldn't get hold of me
I was on the Suffolk coastline all day, Vodafone is generally quite poor over that way... my favourite bit was my voicemail was caput  |
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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago
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im with vodafone both phone and dongle
dongle has been fine but lost phone for a while now have it back tho and a freind 6 miles from me has had nothing all day from hers |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Dongle with Vodapfone and internet has been fine all day phone with Asda but they use Vodafones network, couldn't send texts this morning but fine for the rest of the day |
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"I'm with o2 and for the last week I've hardly been able to make or receive a call - on both my o2 phones - maybe they've had a break in too
According to them, it's a network fault which they are working on night and day to resolve and for my trouble they've given me the princely sum of £10 per account then they went on to tell me that they won't give me any more compensation regardless of how long it takes to fix the fault ..
Oh ! It's like that is it Mr. o2 ?"
find out who the Cheif exec is and phone his office, you probably wont get to spak to him, but his PA or secreatary
Probloem generally gets resolved quickly with proper recompense
I had to do this with Orange as they managed to cut off my number which have had for years and issue it to a new customer,
could not get any sense out of the forign based customer services, they kept saying couldnt find the number in my name, and when given the account number, couldnt find that number on my account
my previous months bill was wiped out, as by their own admission they stated the number was not mine
I got my number back and four months without having to make any payment on my contract except for any non inclusive items
total result |
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