T-Mobile Axes Plan to Charge for Paper Bills

I'm going to right out and say it; I HATE T-mobile, I usually do not write biasedly ( probably not a word) but I have had nothing but trouble from T-Mobile. A T-mobile had another plan to get money from you for inferior service set to go into effect soon. They were planning on charging unfortunate customers a $2 surcharge for having there bills printed out.

I mean REALLY, it's considered a a common courtesy for bills to be printed out and mailed to you. But T-mobile decided to be "Green" (as in give them more greenbacks!) and email you your bill for free instead of mailing it to you normally. Apparently, people caught on to the fact that T-mobile was doing this solely for themselves so they revoked it. Apparently tons of there customers complained so now they are not moving forwards with the plan.

T-mobile had this to say: "Since the announcement we've heard everything from kudos to concerns about the move to paperless -- especially from our customers who today are receiving paper bills at no charge. So, we've decided to not charge our customers a paper bill fee for now. Instead, we'll be taking more time to determine the fairest way possible to encourage people to go paperless." But, they still will charge $2 extra for a more "detailed" bill.

Vatican installs Europe's largest solar plant

The sun may not revolve around the earth, but that doesn't mean we can't use it for power, right? Don't mind us people-who-gave-up-technology-for-Lent, just putting up a $660 million solar plant (that was originally only going to coat $1.5 million). Now, the Vatican is embracing the Solar bandwagon (unlike almost all of the world) as is installing the largest solar array in Europe. Now where did they get all that money?

Cool Gadget(?) 3/25/09: Boxed Water

Boxed Water is, well, water in a cartons, like milk or juice comes. So, this begs the question: Why get water free through a tap when you can buy it for a few bucks? Boxed water's packaging though, does have an 80% less carbon footprint then traditional plastic bottles. Also, 10% of its profits go to reforestation, and another 10% go to water relief. You can see the absurdity at boxedwaterisbetter.com