Meteor Billpay Lite ** Merged **

mathew

im also quite tempted here...

Couple of questions on how the included minutes work..
Do calls to voice mail count on included minutes.
Do calls to fixed rate numbers (1850) count on included minutes.

Infact, are there fixed rate number on billpay.. I know on prepay its 30c a call for 1850, and something similar for 1890.
When calling one of those numbers you could be on hold for ages.
If calling them used up minutes it would be pretty crap...

Mimikyu

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Sam Vimes

Do calls to voice mail count on included minutes.

No they're free


Do calls to fixed rate numbers (1850) count on included minutes.

No but lots of services have landline equivalents you can use, eg aib is 016670024. Take a look at www.saynoto1890.com

Infact, are there fixed rate number on billpay.. I know on prepay its 30c a call for 1850, and something similar for 1890.
When calling one of those numbers you could be on hold for ages.
If calling them used up minutes it would be pretty crap

1850 is 30c per call not per minute so it wouldn't matter how long you were on. 1890 is 15c per minute. And those calls are always charged whether you have minutes left or not

drunkmonkey

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Take a look at www.saynoto1890.com

another Gem of a money saver....

mathew

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Do calls to voice mail count on included minutes.

No they're free


Do calls to fixed rate numbers (1850) count on included minutes.

No but lots of services have landline equivalents you can use, eg aib is 016670024. Take a look at www.saynoto1890.com

Infact, are there fixed rate number on billpay.. I know on prepay its 30c a call for 1850, and something similar for 1890.
When calling one of those numbers you could be on hold for ages.
If calling them used up minutes it would be pretty crap

1850 is 30c per call not per minute so it wouldn't matter how long you were on. 1890 is 15c per minute. And those calls are always charged whether you have minutes left or not

Oh.. Thats good.
Id actually prefer to be charged 30c for the call, especially if you're gonna end up on hold for ages.
I'm quite tempted now...

Sam Vimes

mathew wrote: »

Oh.. Thats good.
Id actually prefer to be charged 30c for the call, especially if you're gonna end up on hold for ages.
I'm quite tempted now...

Just to be clear that that is the standard rate for 1850 on meteor and if you're on pre pay you're already paying the same rate. So that rate isn't specifically a reason to switch, it's just not a reason not to

TheAlmightyZeus

Could someone paint me with info on what kind of data packages are included in this deal?Looks tempting already but with a nice data plan it could turn out to be irresistible!

Sam Vimes

TheAlmightyZeus wrote: »

Could someone paint me with info on what kind of data packages are included in this deal?Looks tempting already but with a nice data plan it could turn out to be irresistible!

http://www.meteor.ie/plans/bill_pay/add_ons/data_add_ons/

Sam Vimes

chrislad wrote: »

You can get any of the international, text or data bundles (bar unlimited) with it.

The way you say that it sounds to me like there are a few options for data add ons. Are there not only the 250mb one and the unlimited (10gb) one?

ablelocks

anyone on Meteor prepay who accesses the internet would want to think before they switch. The €10 data bundle is only the equivalent of 5 days prepay internet access - so this bundle is double the cost of what you would get on prepay. The unlimited bundle for €30 may be too much for most people.

My current usage is about 8-10 days a month (using close to the 50mb limit per day) so that's 8-10 euro a month on internet access (upto 500mb). I don't need anymore than that for now, so the unlimited bundle is too much, and the 250mb bundle too little.

There really needs to be an intermediate data bundle.

Jonathan

jmccrohan wrote: »

2 questions:

1) are those prices inclusive or exclusive of VAT?

2) is there a minimum call duration for the inclusive minutes? or can i make 3600 one second calls?

Any answers?

long_b

Controversial.

ablelocks wrote: »

anyone on Meteor prepay who accesses the internet would want to think before they switch. The €10 data bundle is only the equivalent of 5 days prepay internet access - so this bundle is double the cost of what you would get on prepay.

Like a lot of users I browse every weekday.I would definitely be charged 99c/day on Prepay, but most days I wouldn,'t get near 50 MB.
So for me it works out at half the price per month, provided I do any media downloading at home,

Would agree about wanting a meatier limit though.

mathew

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Just to be clear that that is the standard rate for 1850 on meteor and if you're on pre pay you're already paying the same rate. So that rate isn't specifically a reason to switch, it's just not a reason not to

ye.. if it wasn't on bill pay aswel I wouldn't even consider switching..

theteal

ablelocks wrote: »

anyone on Meteor prepay who accesses the internet would want to think before they switch. The €10 data bundle is only the equivalent of 5 days prepay internet access - so this bundle is double the cost of what you would get on prepay. The unlimited bundle for €30 may be too much for most people.

My current usage is about 8-10 days a month (using close to the 50mb limit per day) so that's 8-10 euro a month on internet access (upto 500mb). I don't need anymore than that for now, so the unlimited bundle is too much, and the 250mb bundle too little.

There really needs to be an intermediate data bundle.

you can only get the 250mb data add on, unlimited is reserved for Talk 400 and above.

all prices are inclusive of VAT, always have been on meteor

i'm unsure of the minimum call charge, afaik there is none on bill pay, just the new crap pre-pay one

Sam Vimes

ablelocks wrote: »

anyone on Meteor prepay who accesses the internet would want to think before they switch. The €10 data bundle is only the equivalent of 5 days prepay internet access - so this bundle is double the cost of what you would get on prepay. The unlimited bundle for €30 may be too much for most people.

My current usage is about 8-10 days a month (using close to the 50mb limit per day) so that's 8-10 euro a month on internet access (upto 500mb). I don't need anymore than that for now, so the unlimited bundle is too much, and the 250mb bundle too little.

There really needs to be an intermediate data bundle.

That really depends on your usage. If you use it any more than ten days it costs more and i'd say most people who use it more than once a year would use it more than ten days a month

And in the ten days you used it it's very unlikely you got anywhere near 250 mb

Personally i use it every day but don't use a lot of data so if i was using it on meteor it'd cost 29.70 a month for about 10mb of data. The 250 bundle would be great for me

You're right though, there should be an intermediate bundle

Sam Vimes

Actually scratch that, they should be giving 1gb for a tenner

Fresh Pots

Never been on bill pay before so this will seem like a stupid question! How exactly does this work? Do you pay 17c per min for the 60 minutes included in the bundle or do you have 60 free minutes and i got it totally wrong!

Sam Vimes

mad.mike wrote: »

Never been on bill pay before so this will seem like a stupid question! How exactly does this work? Do you pay 17c per min for the 60 minutes included in the bundle or do you have 60 free minutes and i got it totally wrong!

You don't pay 17c per minute, that's just the equivalent price. You have 60 minutes included and when you've used them up you start to pay for each minute

CRAIG07

60 mins free:D

Fresh Pots

ah yes, that actually makes sense. I'd move over to it now just i'm expecting 50 euro credit soon for doing the broadband trial! Any inside information on that will happen to this plan come the end of march? Will it disappear or will it just double in price?!

ablelocks

Sam Vimes wrote: »

That really depends on your usage. If you use it any more than ten days it costs more and i'd say most people who use it more than once a year would use it more than ten days a month

And in the ten days you used it it's very unlikely you got anywhere near 250 mb

Personally i use it every day but don't use a lot of data so if i was using it on meteor it'd cost 29.70 a month for about 10mb of data. The 250 bundle would be great for me

You're right though, there should be an intermediate bundle

sorry I should have clarified - I don't have broadband in the area where I live, so I use it for occasional internet access thru my laptop, so in data terms I use 49.5mb anytime I use it.

Sam Vimes

ablelocks wrote: »

sorry I should have clarified - I don't have broadband in the area where I live, so I use it for occasional internet access thru my laptop, so in data terms I use 49.5mb anytime I use it.

Ah i see. It's not very useful for that

Fresh Pots

Hi, this really is a question for anyone who works in meteor, what is going to be their policy on giving out unlock codes to people on this plan?

I ask this because I plan on selling my current phone in the next few weeks and want to get as much money as possible for it.

towel401

mad.mike wrote: »

Hi, this really is a question for anyone who works in meteor, what is going to be their policy on giving out unlock codes to people on this plan?

I ask this because I plan on selling my current phone in the next few weeks and want to get as much money as possible for it.

its sim only i think

Fresh Pots

towel401 wrote: »

its sim only i think

I know yeah. So i'm on meteor pay as you go at the moment and plan on moving to bill pay lite bringing my current phone with me. What will the criteria be to get the phone unlocked when on bill pay?

chrislad

mad.mike wrote: »

Hi, this really is a question for anyone who works in meteor, what is going to be their policy on giving out unlock codes to people on this plan?

I ask this because I plan on selling my current phone in the next few weeks and want to get as much money as possible for it.

There's no need for a policy, as has been stated, it's a sim only contract. You don't get a phone. If you have a Meteor phone, the bill pay lite sim will work fine in it. If you are moving from another network, you need to speak to them, as Meteor aren't responsible for unlocking those.

Jonathan

chrislad wrote: »

There's no need for a policy, as has been stated, it's a sim only contract. You don't get a phone. If you have a Meteor phone, the bill pay lite sim will work fine in it. If you are moving from another network, you need to speak to them, as Meteor aren't responsible for unlocking those.

I think what he is saying is that he currently has a meteor prepay phone.

He wants to move to bill pay lite, but wont have built up sufficient credit on the account to unlock the phone before he moves.

When will he get the phone unlocked?

towel401

if you havn't built up enough credit, one way around it would be to buy the required amount of credit, get the phone unlocked then switch any credit left will go towards your bill. at least thats what the guy in the shop told me

chrislad

jmccrohan wrote: »

I think what he is saying is that he currently has a meteor prepay phone.

He wants to move to bill pay lite, but wont have built up sufficient credit on the account to unlock the phone before he moves.

When will he get the phone unlocked?

I answered that too. A Meteor PayG phone isn't locked to Meteor PayG. It's locked to Meteor as a network. A bill pay sim will work fine in a PayG phone and vice versa.

towel401

chrislad wrote: »

I answered that too. A Meteor PayG phone isn't locked to Meteor PayG. It's locked to Meteor as a network. A bill pay sim will work fine in a PayG phone and vice versa.

thats not much good if he wants to sell it though