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O2 gives away free phones by accident

Web glitch bonanza
By Tony Dennis
Fri Mar 02 2007, 09:28
AN OUT-OF-DATE link on its Web site led to O2 sending out hundreds of free handsets, according to a report in Mobile magazine.

The glitch mean that it was possible to add a handset for nothing to an order for a SIM-only tariff on the company's web site. Handsets involved included the Samsung E900s and X830s plus the Motorola W220s.

Details of how to obtain the handsets for free spread by email and surfers took advantage of the error for around seven days before O2 installed a fix.

An O2 spokesman told Mobile that, "A few hundred phones had already been dispatched before the fix was in place, but all other pending orders were stopped and as no payment had been made, they were not fulfilled." µ

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