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#3342505 13-Feb-2025 14:03

I'm looking at upgrading the work laptop - is business pricing from Lenovo Pro actually any better than through the public site? Opinions on Reddit and similar appear divided.

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#3342863 14-Feb-2025 13:23

I want to send an email to someone who doesn't know me (and hasn't received an email from me previously) - using Apple Mail app on MacBook. In the outgoing email, it shows: From: Joe Bloggs - jb@xtra.co.nz

I'm guessing it's showing that because I have myself entered in my contacts list.

When the recipient gets the email, will they see all of the sender info - as I've shown it above including my name - or will they just see the email address?

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#3342864 14-Feb-2025 13:25

The recipient will get your email address, and your "full name". You can view and change the name in Mail's settings... unless you're sending from an iCloud account in which case you need to log into the iCloud website and change it there, because Apple loves making things complicated.

Edit for clarity: If you go to the Mail menu > Accounts > Choose your account on the left (there's probably only one), then the text shown in "Email Address" is what the recipient will see. For a non-iCloud account you can drop down the Email Address menu and choose Edit Email Addresses to modify the name.

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#3342869 14-Feb-2025 13:46

Behodar:

The recipient will get your email address, and your "full name". You can view and change the name in Mail's settings... unless you're sending from an iCloud account in which case you need to log into the iCloud website and change it there, because Apple loves making things complicated.

Edit for clarity: If you go to the Mail menu > Accounts > Choose your account on the left (there's probably only one), then the text shown in "Email Address" is what the recipient will see. For a non-iCloud account you can drop down the Email Address menu and choose Edit Email Addresses to modify the name.

Many thanks - much appreciated - just what I needed.

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#3342873 14-Feb-2025 14:11

Why does your pre-pay phone account get killed after a year of non-use, even if you still have credit on it? What is the logic/excuse for this?

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#3342874 14-Feb-2025 14:13

The logic is that they want money. The excuse is that they want money.

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#3342966 14-Feb-2025 18:50

Rikkitic:

Why does your pre-pay phone account get killed after a year of non-use, even if you still have credit on it? What is the logic/excuse for this?

It gets killed if you don't top up for a year, I don't think the telcos care much whether you use the sim or not.

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#3342967 14-Feb-2025 18:50

Behodar:

The logic is that they want money. The excuse is that they want money.

It's almost like they are running a business.

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#3343057 14-Feb-2025 22:07

Rikkitic: Why does your pre-pay phone account get killed after a year of non-use, even if you still have credit on it? What is the logic/excuse for this?

accounting and legal, I'm not sure which categories.

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#3343058 14-Feb-2025 22:13

Limiting financial liability is a big one. Bean Counters hate it.

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#3343072 14-Feb-2025 23:55

Handle9:

It gets killed if you don't top up for a year, I don't think the telcos care much whether you use the sim or not.

Doesn't answer my question.

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#3343073 15-Feb-2025 00:01

What I am asking is what justification or reason is given for doing this? All the providers seem to do this but do any say why? They must have a reason, even if it is a stupid one. At some point someone must have made a decision that this is what their policy would be.

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#3343074 15-Feb-2025 00:06

Rikkitic:

What I am asking is what justification or reason is given for doing this? All the providers seem to do this but do any say why? They must have a reason, even if it is a stupid one. At some point someone must have made a decision that this is what their policy would be.

The reason/s are most likely what @networkn suggested and they can.

Carried over customer credit shows as a liability on their balance sheet without corresponding cashflow. They likely won’t be able to recognise the revenue for the credit until the credit is released, one way or the other.

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#3343075 15-Feb-2025 00:07

At a guess:

Cell tower capacity used to be limited, even just for devices checking in. To a certain extent, it still is.
There's probably some per-connected-device and/or per-active-SIM software licensing for the backend systems.
It forces people with receive-only devices (phones that only take calls, automation gear that's SMS activated) to spend money - either regular top-ups or a special IoT monthly plan. Otherwise, people would just bang a $5 SIM + minimum top up in there and be good for fifteen years.

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#3343077 15-Feb-2025 00:14

Handle9: Carried over customer credit shows as a liability on their balance sheet without corresponding cashflow. They likely won’t be able to recognise the revenue for the credit until the credit is released, one way or the other.

Wouldn't that be compensated for by the breakage from the unused credit balance?

(You give the telco X amount of money, they invest it and collect interest while your account with them sits idle).

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