LOL! I dont think u understand the issue. I know (I was told and I've experienced) that calls and data will not happen in parallel in 3G but this can happen with CDMA. I'm not concerned whether or not I can make a phone call when surfing. The issue is that the billing is screwed up. Load 50 bob (or make sure u have a small number of units on your phone. This will make the process faster), connect to internet and dont do a heavy download or anything that would consume the 50 bob. Let's say ur calls are billed at 10 bob a minute, wait for 6 minutes to make sure the 50 bob would be used up IF it were a phone call (it's data now). Try and make the phone call or send text. At this point I get a message that I have insufficient funds but clearly I know I have credit coz I didn't surf all the 50 bob. After disconnecting from net, im now able to make the phone call. ON THE OTHER HAND I can make a phone call within the 5 minutes. O_O --- On Fri, 6/26/09, Nzomo Bernard <nzomosky@gmail.com> wrote: From: Nzomo Bernard <nzomosky@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Fault in $afcom's billing system? Bug? To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 9:11 AM When surfing, you are doing what is known as a data call! You can call and surf at the same time but that is limited to the phone model you have. If it can handle 2 or more threads (processes in Desktop world) at a go then you are good to go but if it cannot then the data call is 'paused' till the voice call is through! -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Skunkworks announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general