Re: GPS knickers now a reality - how sad

Ivor Jones wrote...
> {a) It is a technical impossibility to be connected to a chargeable call
> by pressing any buttons during an incoming call.
>
> (b) The highest premium rate call in the UK is £1.50/minute.
>
> (c) There are no lines in the *world* let alone the UK, that cost anything
> like £50 a minute.

That's exactly what I believe. However simple risk assessment says:

(very very small chance of being wrong) x (huge cost of being wrong) =
significant risk

so it's prudent to resist the temptation to press 9 and have a go at them!

David


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