Here’s a brief update on the iPhone situation.

I called O2 again, and spoke to Nicola. She used various details to try to locate any record of an account, and can’t find anything. Not using email, surname, or post code. Least of all using the mobile phone number I’ve been given.

She’s said it sounds like Carphone Warehouse haven’t sent my details across, because orders that are falling foul of the delayed activation are visible on their systems. She’s advised that I should wait until tomorrow morning (like I’ve got a choice) and call Carphone Warehouse again. I’m thinking of getting a bed down there. There’s a McDonalds next door and everything!

She also said that new activations are taking 2-3 working days. So it sounds like I’m looking at Wednesday before I’m up and running, even if someone grows a brain tomorrow.

In the words of the immortal James Dalton – Patrick Swayze, Road House (1989) – “Be nice, until it’s time to not be nice”. I think the time to “not be nice” has come. Tomorrow, it’s Kung-Fu Warehouse, brothers and sisters. Skadoosh.

Update: I’ll keep this post updated until there’s something significant to report. Carphone Warehouse’s phone system asks for your mobile phone number when you call them, which their system doesn’t recognise, even though it’s their receipt that’s got the number on!