PrePay phone deal - unbelievable

podgeandrodge

I meant to post this but forgot. Ok, it was over 20 years ago but a bargain is a bargain!

I had this package up until 2018 and stubbornly refused to move off the tariff even though my phone service had passed from Digifone to O2 to Three.
They eventually deactivated my account without my consent and I lost my phone number. I refused the change to terms and conditions as they were core to the product that had been sold to me which was "credits do not expire".

Comreg were every bit as useless as one would expect them to be. Quoting the contract terms and conditions which guaranteed me service was pointless.

zell12

I was on the EarlyBird plan in 1998. My first phone cost me 79 punts!

Digifone was so hip and new compared to Eircell

Cee-Jay-Cee

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I had this package up until 2018 and stubbornly refused to move off the tariff even though my phone service had passed from Digifone to O2 to Three.
They eventually deactivated my account without my consent and I lost my phone number. I refused the change to terms and conditions as they were core to the product that had been sold to me which was "credits do not expire".

Comreg were every bit as useless as one would expect them to be. Quoting the contract terms and conditions which guaranteed me service was pointless.

Why would you have remained on that plan when it’s so expensive???

podgeandrodge

Deleted User wrote: »

I had this package up until 2018 and stubbornly refused to move off the tariff even though my phone service had passed from Digifone to O2 to Three.
They eventually deactivated my account without my consent and I lost my phone number. I refused the change to terms and conditions as they were core to the product that had been sold to me which was "credits do not expire".

Comreg were every bit as useless as one would expect them to be. Quoting the contract terms and conditions which guaranteed me service was pointless.

Typical. You signed up in good faith and they treat you like this. Despicable!

podgeandrodge

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Why would you have remained on that plan when it’s so expensive???

:rolleyes:

Edit: I thought he was joking. I thought you were missing the joke. Now I am unsure! Maybe he wanted it to make rare calls and had credit which hadn't expired. interesting...

Atlantic Dawn

zell12 wrote: »

I was on the EarlyBird plan in 1998. My first phone cost me 79 punts!

Digifone was so hip and new compared to Eircell

The internet in your pocket...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hshiG5Mplm4

RocketRaccoon

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

The internet in your pocket...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hshiG5Mplm4

I had that phone in 2001, it was amazing at the time.

dhaughton99

Great find.

L1011

podgeandrodge wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Edit: I thought he was joking. I thought you were missing the joke. Now I am unsure! Maybe he wanted it to make rare calls and had credit which hadn't expired. interesting...

There are reasons you'd want an inbound only number or similar; basically all normal plans require you to spend something at some interval for this.

However, getting 20 years out of one is good going.

L1011

L1011 wrote: »

There are reasons you'd want an inbound only number or similar; basically all normal plans require you to spend something at some interval for this.

However, getting 20 years out of one is good going.

The battery in that Nokia would die every few years but they weren't very expensive. The arrangement suited me fine and would have lasted a lifetime if not for Three taking over.

tv3tg4

The call rates outside a bundle remain very high. 75p per minute? I think I had nightowel.

landmarkjohn

Deleted User wrote: »

The battery in that Nokia would die every few years

Only ever got a couple of weeks out of the battery, then I had to charge it.

editorsean

I joined Digifone back in 2001 as part of a Bewleys tea bag offer, i.e. collect a certain number of tokens and get a Panasonic GD35 phone for £50 with 2 x £20 free credit (if I recall right).

My first phone was Eircell back in September 1999, but switched to that Digifone deal for the cheaper early bird plan as I was a student at the time. Indeed that was the time switching network meant changing your number for the new network's prefix. The house I stayed at was near a payphone, so it was still much cheaper to call using a phone card (£16 for 100 units, local call was 3 minutes per unit).

I still remember when O2 introduced GPRS for free back around 2002, however, once they started charging 3c/KB out of the blue, I didn't use data at all until they eventually offered a 50MB a day bundle for €1.

DopeTech

editorsean wrote: »

I joined Digifone back in 2001 as part of a Bewleys tea bag offer, i.e. collect a certain number of tokens and get a Panasonic GD35 phone for £50 with 2 x £20 free credit (if I recall right).

My first phone was Eircell back in September 1999, but switched to that Digifone deal for the cheaper early bird plan as I was a student at the time. Indeed that was the time switching network meant changing your number for the new network's prefix. The house I stayed at was near a payphone, so it was still much cheaper to call using a phone card (£16 for 100 units, local call was 3 minutes per unit).

I still remember when O2 introduced GPRS for free back around 2002, however, once they started charging 3c/KB out of the blue, I didn't use data at all until they eventually offered a 50MB a day bundle for €1.

Wow I remember that offer. You forget how far we've come in 20 years until you look at phones like that.

CGI_3

I had a 5110 with an adaptor that went between the battery and the phone and you could insert 2 x SIMs. Phone would only work on one though, obviously. Seem to remember I had this arrangement with a speakeasy sim that had cheap calls during the day. You had to switch the phone off and on again to swap between sims.

tedpan

RocketRaccoon wrote:

I had that phone in 2001, it was amazing at the time.

Me too, Nokia 7110. Snake was better on the 8210, which I still have!