A business customer told me that a company laptop would no longer connect to the internet using the Vodafone wireless 3G USB modem (an E220 modem)

The Vodafone software would generate a RAS error code 619, and would suggest re-enabling the modem, re-installing the driver, etc.

I tried all the suggestions, plus anything else I could find on the Net, but to no avail.

I eventually called Vodafone tech support, and I’m told the account is under review.

I’ve not heard that expression before, so I had to ask: What does that mean?

The tech politely suggested that there might have been a problem with the payments on the account.

Thats when the penny dropped: the company hadn’t paid their Vodafone account!

I thought it was a technical problem, and it turned out to be a financial problem (double for the company involved, as they effectively paid me just to tell them they hadn’t paid an internet account).