SmartDude wrote:@ Strong Eagle:
I wonder how can you release the information about my location ? Aren't you abusing your power here by doing so ? Are you allowed to do so by reading at the T&C of this forum rules ? If i want i can easily use the proxy ip to hide my location but i didn't and i won't.
@Strong Eagle, i would appreciate if you do not disclose some private information publicly..
I guess this forum is meant for questions/answers/suggestion, it turns out to be bashing/fighting here... Every big shot of this forum is showing superiority/power to show other members humiliated... I guess this forum is no good for its objective. Anyway thanks all ....
k1w1 wrote:Not suggesting that anyone runs away on their responsibilities, but seriously - come on, Singtel cannot have you arrested for not paying your mobile bill. I also highly doubt they are going to engage international lawyers over it. (A company account owing thousands, maybe, but a person's handphone?)
Again, I'm not saying anyone should do this, but the idea of being arrested at the airport because you ran off on your phone contract is just a weeeee bit blown out of proportion. How much do you really think those passport stampers can see? I know people who hadn't paid their final maid levy and left Singapore. When they returned a couple of years later and wanted to hire a new maid, they were presented with a bill, which they paid immediately (no doubt with penalties, which is fair enough) and then nothing more was said - and that was owing money directly to a government department.
Having said all that: OP, grow up and pay your phone bill. Yes, it's a killer paying those damn contract breaking fees, but you signed it...
I never tested it in Singapore, but I know for a fact that an unpaid council tax bill in London (City of Westminster) is though court and at a 'fine stage' within 3 months.Plavt wrote:Fines and warrants are a different issue to an unpaid phone bill. Phone companies know that some people will disappear which might be part of the reason for the credit limit assuming they have credit limits on mobile phones in Singapore.
Depending on who the money was owed to, writ from a lawyer letter - which is just only a demand letter (each adding 50 $ to 150 $ to the money owed) and on to filing legal action until bankruptcy ..revhappy wrote:I will give you some 1st hand experience.
We are staying in a rented house. We kept getting reminder letters in our mail box addressed to the previous tenant from starhub asking to pay the dues. The previous tenant has already gone back to India. After several reminders and pink letter was sent and finally last week I saw a letter from the Lawyer's company addressed to the previous tenant. I called up my agent and notified her. She just told me to put the letter into the return mail box. Not sure what is going to happen in the future.
Is that why internet access is so slow?JR8 wrote:p.s. They were already monitoring all phone calls in SG 15 years ago. Lord knows how that technology has moved on to the current day.
Your internet access is slow because you didn't pay enough .. maybeIs that why internet access is so slow?
Such routing is due to cheap routes and cheaper fibre .. and compared to the days when we used Satellite, where anybody with a 2 cent brain can figure out a C Band transceiver - can listen - or atleast capture the traffic and try to decipher ..I read somewhere that all international (and strangely enough also domestic) internet traffic is set to be routed via Hong Kong. Doesn't that give a foreign country access to sift through all data coming not only in or out but also travelling within Sing?
Some bodies are able to share information (e.g. in the UK councils, Inland Revenue, Job Centres who pay benefits) but I doubt very much if all are linked. Accessing databases can be costly and is not as simple as a great many people think.sundaymorningstaple wrote: With all of the major databases in the country links together, it not hard to conceive that those databases are also linked to the law society and other legal bodies where debtors information is kept when companies decide to engage legal help to get payment.
JR8 wrote: I never tested it in Singapore, but I know for a fact that an unpaid council tax bill in London (City of Westminster) is though court and at a 'fine stage' within 3 months.
Most developed countries have this capbility but the man hours and expense involved will mean they would be pretty select about who they would bother listening to.p.s. They were already monitoring all phone calls in SG 15 years ago. Lord knows how that technology has moved on to the current day.
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