BEATING the System, HAHA Meteor

jj99

I have a friend in America who I call everyday!
Meteor has a new phone a friend for free deal.
If I send her over a Meteor Sim card, will i be able to call America for free. Will there be any cost to her?
Calling America for free would be pretty sweet!
will this work,HAHAA

Ruu_Old

I would think the phone would switch over to roaming or something like that?

mathew

You'll be charged nothing.. but she'll be charged for receiving a call abroad.
its about €1.40 per minute.

Binomate

Not a very well thought out plan, at all...

Anto McC

Binomate wrote:

Not a very well thought out plan, at all...

Get off the fence, it was an absolute poxy plan, that was given no intelligent thought whatsoever. I think Meteor should be allowed place one of those really old, baton, ready to throw phones, firmly up your rectum.

Tar.Aldarion

Dude, just use skype...
Youl plan is fail.

jb91

mathew wrote:

You'll be charged nothing.. but she'll be charged for receiving a call abroad.
its about €1.40 per minute.

And don't Meteor charge €70 or something like that to set up roaming?

Dord

Yeah AFAIK they charge an up front fee for new customers going roaming. the plan sucks. Skype FTW!

eoin5

I'm in ur fone, stealing ur kreditz.

Winters

OP is full of fail.

Why are you not using Skype? Serious to god.

Orange69

jj99 wrote:

I have a friend in America who I call everyday!
Meteor has a new phone a friend for free deal.
If I send her over a Meteor Sim card, will i be able to call America for free. Will there be any cost to her?
Calling America for free would be pretty sweet!
will this work,HAHAA

Check this out! (use headphones)

jor el

eoin5 wrote:

I'm in ur fone, stealing ur kreditz.

Shouldn't there be a cat with that quote? Something like this?

Orange69 wrote:

Check this out! (use headphones)

That'd make an excellent screensaver for someone you don't particularly like. Must Google swf2scr...

projectmayhem

system > jj99

jj99

Whats the best way to call america. how much is it on skype for her to call me. vice versa/

Anto McC

Skype is free mate, you just need to download and register on it.

Winters

PC to PC Skype is free. You should look into it.

Skype to landline/cell phones costs somewhat but it is far cheaper then your run of the mill phone companies.

eoin5

jor el wrote:

Shouldn't there be a cat with that quote? Something like this?

I just knew someone would save me the bother

mathew

jb91 wrote:

And don't Meteor charge €70 or something like that to set up roaming?

Not exactly. You have to top up with €60.. basicly because the calls are so expensive and they dont want you over drawing the account and not paying it pack. Hence the reason for registering your credit card details also. Its pretty easy to spend more than you have in credit when roaming because it takes a while for the charge to go through. Metoer dont want to be loosing any money!!!!

But ye.. skype ftw!

Piste

The OP wins the prize!!!

You can webtext abroad for free.

Karoma

Piste wrote:

The OP wins the prize!!!

You can webtext abroad for free.

Now, whether that person in America can receive the text is another thing...

mawk

and why be mean to meteor? they are such a nice phone company.

they maim o2 and vodyphone. and the whole free sms/mms for life deal... pretty unreal.

op, get skype. skype to cingular cellphone is about 7c per minute. if youre too cheap to pay that then how will you afford a new simcard and a postage stamp or three to get it there?

RoyalMarine

can you wait a few weeks for me to write fail in the snow with liquid yellowness? ill take a pic for you.

nobodythere

Skype?

Caliden

You can send txts for free but it will cost her 40c or whatever it is to reply.

Terry

Would this work in the UK?

I believe Meteor do not charge for roaming there.

philcsl

Terry wrote:

Would this work in the UK?

I believe Meteor do not charge for roaming there.

Yes it would work with Meteor, VF & O2 too for the UK. Its free to receive calls and SMS once you select the correct roaming partner.

My mate's gf lives in the UK and this is what they do, saves a fortune as she has no landline...

sunnyjim

Theres another little cheat.

Sending texts on Meteor abroad costs dosh, even if its to another 085 number...

But, for some reason, if you fill out the text completely, using up all the characters, its free!

Sparky

The OP fails at mobiles.

lol @ phone cat

Crumble Froo

o2 let you webtext anywhere in teh world for free. my b/f is in nz, and he logs on and sends me free texts from my meteor account, and ill text him for free from my o2 account. after that, msn is free, just get a vidcam and mic.

Sam Vimes

Piste wrote:

The OP wins the prize!!!

You can webtext abroad for free.

only with o2

Caliden wrote:

You can send txts for free but it will cost her 40c or whatever it is to reply.

when my gf was in america she had a cingular sim card and it was only 5c to text me. of course she had to pay 5c to receive texts as well.

note: if you don't like someone and they're in america, buy a few o2 sim cards and use all 250 web texts to text them, taking 5c of their credit each time

lemansky

Orange69 wrote:

Check this out! (use headphones)

I thought this thread was gonna be about my excellent plan to take on the phone companies......

2 people ring up and type the same number from ONE top-up ticket and then press the hash key at the same time, thereby topping up both phones. It's full of holes, this plan, but i thought the op had done this and succeeded.

sdanseo

www.skype.com

download, register, call (preferably in that order). :rolleyes:

thread over (maybe).