Meteor Announce Mobile Broadband Trial

TheAlmightyZeus

Any news on credit for anyone?

Nothing for me yet

Jonathan

TheAlmightyZeus wrote: »

Any news on credit for anyone?

Nothing for me yet

Me either. Gonna ring up again later.

mad.mike wrote: »

Did they tell you how it would work, like will they be able to sort it out in the shop or do we have to ring up cc?

Said they should be able to do it in the shop.

long_b

Has anyone tried getting an unlock code for their modem.

You know the usual line, "Going on holidays to Greece... blah blah blah.. no roaming agreement blah blah"

The cheapest place I could find online was £20 STG.

Gumbo

TheAlmightyZeus wrote: »

Any news on credit for anyone?

Nothing for me yet

was due to get it last Friday (27.02.2009) but when it didnt arrive by 6pm i rang them.

they said nobody got it due to a fault and that we should have it before next Friday (6.03.2009), but if we didnt have it by afternoon time to ring again.

drunkmonkey

Does the modem work on edge all around the country? or is only working on the 3G signal....

Jonathan

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Does the modem work on edge all around the country? or is only working on the 3G signal....

All over the country.

That's why it is miles better than 3

drunkmonkey

jmccrohan wrote: »

All over the country.

That's why it is miles better than 3

wouldn't know, I never had a 3 modem longer than 14 days:)

is there any difference between 02 edge and meteor edge? same maxmium speed?

Fresh Pots

TheAlmightyZeus wrote: »

Any news on credit for anyone?

Nothing for me yet

Seems like they are giving different answers to everyone, I rang up there last night and was told that we haven't been given the credit yet because they are still trying to get in contact with some of the people on the trial to see which number they want the credit added to, that way the can add it all in one batch. She said we should be get it in the next 2-3 days:rolleyes:

Surely they could just add the credit to the people that they did get a hold of and send a message to the rest telling them to ring customer care or something.

none

No credit yet but got an email today (what I like most is the future tense ):
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Original Message

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From: Meteor Direct
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:52 AM
Subject: Broadband link

Thanks for being part of the mobile broadband trial. Meteor Broadband to Go will launch on Thursday the 26th of February. The great news is it’s now cheaper for you to use – only €2.99 a day or €19.99 for a 30 day pass.
To get these great prices you don’t need to do anything just continue to use the device like before. There is however updated software online which you can download if you would like. You can get it at this link:
www.Meteor.ie/broadbandtogo/payg/device_upgrades
This link will be available from Thursday the 26th of February
If you have any queries lease contact our Customer Service team on 1800 333 085
Meteor[/HTML]

Gumbo

just off the phone to Customer Service there, they are having problems issueing the credit but we are due to receive it sometime next week!!

heard this last week and the week before too!!! :mad:

long_b

long_b wrote: »

Has anyone tried getting an unlock code for their modem.

You know the usual line, "Going on holidays to Greece... blah blah blah.. no roaming agreement blah blah"

The cheapest place I could find online was £20 STG.

Customer Service "had never been asked for that before". Was supposed to get back to me with details.

*Waits*

mk6705

Was taking a browse around Meteor.ie and saw this (link). Very interesting, I've been wanting to see a map like that for quite a while!

Walkman

Adro947 wrote: »

Was taking a browse around Meteor.ie and saw this (link). Very interesting, I've been wanting to see a map like that for quite a while!

I thought meteor had full edge coverage, not according to their own website in the above link they dont

Jonathan

Walkman wrote: »

I thought meteor had full edge coverage, not according to their own website in the above link they dont

Nope. In in regions that they roam on vodafone afaik.

mk6705

jmccrohan wrote: »

Nope. In in regions that they roam on vodafone afaik.

Alot of Meteor's own network doesn't have it either, I'm sure it'll be added soon enough though.

Walkman

jmccrohan wrote: »

All over the country.

That's why it is miles better than 3

So this statement about meteor having full edge coverage would not be true :-P

Fresh Pots

Credit arrived!

Jonathan

Walkman wrote: »

So this statement about meteor having full edge coverage would not be true :-P

Correct :P


In fairness tho, I thought the reigons that they roamed on vodafone were much smaller.

I'm kinda surprised tbh.





But quiet you and dont be supporting drunkmonkey :pac:

Jonathan

mad.mike wrote: »

Credit arrived!

€85 credit = 8 months no bill with bill pay lite :pac::pac:

Nerin

This thread worries me now

Jonathan

Nerin wrote: »

This thread worries me now

Why so?

Nerin

jmccrohan wrote: »

Why so?

Well i ordered it the second i saw it on the website. Now i've a lot of careful reading to do

Gumbo

got my 50e free credit last night too, happy days!

mk6705

jmccrohan wrote: »

In fairness tho, I thought the reigons that they roamed on vodafone were much smaller.

They are, the GPRS areas aren't Vodafone areas (well some are) but most of them are covered by Meteor, but EDGE is not enabled on the base stations.

mk6705

Does anyone know if I could use this to get 5GB of data on my phone for €20 a month? I could easily handle changing the APNs and login details (if someone here gives them to me), but how would I actually activate the 5GB of data?

Rsaeire

Adro947 wrote: »

Does anyone know if I could use this to get 5GB of data on my phone for €20 a month? I could easily handle changing the APNs and login details (if someone here gives them to me), but how would I actually activate the 5GB of data?

You will not be able to for the following reasons:

- The service is only available when you buy a modem; not sim only
- Voice calls are unavailable on the mobile broadband sim
- You cannot have the required data bundle added to your account
- You will not be able to have the required APN added to your account

7.Ronaldo

Rsaeire wrote: »

You will not be able to for the following reasons:

- The service is only available when you buy a modem; not sim only
- Voice calls are unavailable on the mobile broadband sim
- You cannot have the required data bundle added to your account
- You will not be able to have the required APN added to your account

Exactly. You would be able to use the SIM in your handset and be able to access data etc... and all you would have to do is set up the required APN.

However, if you did this you would not be able to make / receive voice calls on the SIM because the broadband SIM's are data only. This can only be changed by your network operator but they will not do so.

Nerin

Hmmm,just got mine now,will be testing it out later. One thing i noticed was the day pass runs out at exactly midnight,so if you start browsing at 10 you only get 2 hours,meh.

Also wondering about the month pass,can i physically get it,like walk into a shop and get it?
I see it says i can order it on my laptop,wondering how that works. Will reread and test later.

drunkmonkey

jmccrohan wrote: »

But quiet you and dont be supporting drunkmonkey :pac:

That's twice in the one Day:)

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Nerin

Working well,even here in the wildlands.