'48' Mobile operator - Prepaid offer - 3000mins & 5000 texts €10per month

podgeandrodge · 02-03-2012 8:34am

Fenian Army wrote: »

Thanks, are those machines the credit ones you see around the place where you insert your cash?

I dont have a debit or a credit card you see, or a bank account in fact so I want to make sure I can actually top up before switching lol

a payzone outlet simply means you go in and ask for a "€10 topup for 48" and pay them cash.

I suggest using them for a little while before porting and see how it goes for you.

freeze4real · 02-03-2012 9:59am

Anyone activated FaceTime/iMessage on this with an iPhone 4.

upandcumming · 02-03-2012 4:17pm

freeze4real wrote: »

Anyone activated FaceTime/iMessage on this with an iPhone 4.

We saw that question the first time you posted it.

nava · 02-03-2012 4:27pm

freeze4real wrote: »

Anyone activated FaceTime/iMessage on this with an iPhone 4.

Did you try to activate? do you have credit? as part of the activation it sends a couple of txt to a UK number.

More info here

Let us know how you get on.

freeze4real · 02-03-2012 4:35pm

There a charge for 25c for FaceTime to activate. And I would like to topup by only €10.

Walter White · 02-03-2012 5:22pm

freeze4real wrote: »

There a charge for 25c for FaceTime to activate. And I would like to topup by only €10.

When you top up by 10euro, it then says your credit is 11euro... So use your 10euro for membership for your free calls and texts and the extra 1euro to pay for your FaceTime...

freeze4real · 02-03-2012 7:11pm

Walter White wrote: »

When you top up by 10euro, it then says your credit is 11euro... So use your 10euro for membership for your free calls and texts and the extra 1euro to pay for your FaceTime...

Beautiful great stuff from them.

Thanks a lot. Straight to the point.

Cheers

pswanto · 02-03-2012 8:59pm

So I ported over from Vodafone this evening and that process was fine

Good points,

1. I can receive texts to my ported number.

Problems.

1. I can't receive calls, my number is constantly engaged.
2. The membership payment won't accept my Laser details, I keep getting Error try again please.
3. I'm Constantly roaming, even if they are 'piggybacking' from o2 i shouldnt be roaming.

Anyone else like this?

faolteam · 02-03-2012 11:36pm

When my credit is due, do have to have it topped up that day or the day before etc and if i dont top up on time do i loose offer ?????

Luap · 03-03-2012 2:31am

Went into a Payzone shop to get the €10 euro top up, which I thought would do me 4 the texts and calls, but its saying I still have to pay a membership fee. :mad: Am I asking for the wrong thing in the shop or what.

Edit: Just had to go on to the website and buy the membership with your credit balance. :P

Luap · 03-03-2012 2:35am

faolteam wrote: »

When my credit is due, do have to have it topped up that day or the day before etc and if i dont top up on time do i loose offer ?????

No don't think so, just top up whenever you feel and you'll get the service for a month. Hopefully. :P

Walter White · 03-03-2012 2:50pm

faolteam wrote: »

When my credit is due, do have to have it topped up that day or the day before etc and if i dont top up on time do i loose offer ?????

No, you dont lose the offer.. If you dont top up its just like having no credit, you will still recieve calls and texts.. When you do top up your offer starts again from that day for a month...

psychward · 03-03-2012 3:08pm

Walter White wrote: »

No, you dont lose the offer.. If you dont top up its just like having no credit, you will still recieve calls and texts..

but no texts if you are roaming abroad with an empty wallet ?

Sir Vival · 03-03-2012 7:42pm

For the sim registration stage. Did those outside the 18-22 bracket put in their real dob..?

JTMan · 03-03-2012 7:44pm

Sir Vival wrote: »

For the sim registration stage. Did those outside the 18-22 bracket put in their real dob..?

If they are an idiot then they did.

You need to have complete DOB field with a date inside the 18-22 bracket to use the service.

NewCar2012 · 03-03-2012 7:54pm

Fungus wrote: »

If they are an idiot then they did.

You need to have complete DOB field with a date inside the 18-22 bracket to use the service.

thats it, ported over to this this morning to see what it was like,
best deal out there at the minute, porting was done ok, then topped up online with €10 to activate membership, all working fine now.

oneteu · 03-03-2012 8:47pm

Free calls & text from TescoMobile to 48.

JTMan · 03-03-2012 8:54pm

oneteu wrote: »

Free calls & text from TescoMobile to 48.

Really? Must be a bug in the way Tesco bill.

thisisadamh · 03-03-2012 9:15pm

When they ask for mobile number when getting a free sim is that a number they want to port or just a number in general for contact if there is a problem with the order. I dont want to port my current number.

TheDriver · 03-03-2012 9:43pm

don't put in any number

pissed · 03-03-2012 11:47pm

Whats the sequence? Top up first or port first and then top up?

johnnyblues · 04-03-2012 12:26am

...port first and then top up.

Esel · 04-03-2012 3:50am

oneteu wrote: »

Free calls & text from TescoMobile to 48.

Fungus wrote: »

Really? Must be a bug in the way Tesco bill.

Maybe its because they both use the 089 prefix?

dowtchaboy · 04-03-2012 2:09pm

oneteu wrote: »

Free calls & text from TescoMobile to 48.

Really? I'm on Tescomobile and I have not seen anything about this.
Link please?

Luap · 04-03-2012 9:08pm

No issues so far, signal is perfect. Very good deal.

Corkgirl18 · 06-03-2012 12:15am

Applied for sim last thursday week, Its now Monday

How long did it take other peoples sims to come?

KERSPLAT! · 06-03-2012 12:36am

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Applied for sim last thursday week, Its now Monday How long did it take other peoples sims to come?

About 2 weeks for me, I got an email when it was dispatched

kneejerk · 06-03-2012 11:26am

whats their data speeds and charges like? kinda like the three all you eat data althought i prob only use a few gigs a month

saa · 06-03-2012 11:38am

18-22? so what I go to them and have to change phone company next year?

They were actually the worst 48 months of my life so far, silly marketing wabbit. Roll on 22, dole that isn't 100 euro har har.

TimMac · 06-03-2012 12:20pm

lads did anybody have any problems porting their number over?
i want to switch but i cant afford to be without my business number, will i have no phone for a while?

Walter White · 06-03-2012 1:58pm

TimMac wrote: »

lads did anybody have any problems porting their number over?
i want to switch but i cant afford to be without my business number, will i have no phone for a while?

I had, but that was when they were starting up.. 3 friends have ported over since and had no problems at all, they were told it would take up to 2 hours and about 30 minutes later lost signal in old sim, put in 48 sim and was working immediately...

Noelly · 06-03-2012 4:13pm

Walter White wrote: »

I had, but that was when they were starting up.. 3 friends have ported over since and had no problems at all, they were told it would take up to 2 hours and about 30 minutes later lost signal in old sim, put in 48 sim and was working immediately...

Mine took 3 days last week so it's not fully fixed yet...

bren2001 · 06-03-2012 5:52pm

TimMac wrote: »

lads did anybody have any problems porting their number over?
i want to switch but i cant afford to be without my business number, will i have no phone for a while?

I ported from o2 on Saturday. It took about an hour and a half. You maintain coverage with your old network for most of the porting.

conlor27 · 06-03-2012 10:42pm

TimMac wrote: »

lads did anybody have any problems porting their number over?
i want to switch but i cant afford to be without my business number, will i have no phone for a while?

Yeah i sent the porting thing on last thursday and about 7 emails to 48 and 10 calls to three(old network) later, im still no better off! Really pi**ed off, no phone for the last week now and 48 saying its threes fault and three saying its 48s.

Esel · 07-03-2012 2:01am

saa wrote: »

18-22? so what I go to them and have to change phone company next year?

They were actually the worst 48 months of my life so far, silly marketing wabbit. Roll on 22, dole that isn't 100 euro har har.

From reading this thread, your actual age is what you say it is... How does it feel to be 18 again?

nava · 07-03-2012 10:46am

conlor27 wrote: »

Yeah i sent the porting thing on last thursday and about 7 emails to 48 and 10 calls to three(old network) later, im still no better off! Really pi**ed off, no phone for the last week now and 48 saying its threes fault and three saying its 48s.

I would contact comreg about that and get them to look into it.

conlor27 · 07-03-2012 6:25pm

nava wrote: »

conlor27 wrote: »

Yeah i sent the porting thing on last thursday and about 7 emails to 48 and 10 calls to three(old network) later, im still no better off! Really pi**ed off, no phone for the last week now and 48 saying its threes fault and three saying its 48s.

I would contact comreg about that and get them to look into it.

Thanks for that, took up your advice and comreg are on it now! Hopefully itll kick both companies into doing something. Comreg said it could take up to 10 days though

so another 10 days without a phone.

bren2001 · 07-03-2012 10:00pm

I was talking to one of the solicitors from o2 today. She came in to give us a lecture on contract law. I asked her how 48 gets away with the discrimination and she implied that it was a membership to a club and you can discriminate at certain ages.

JTMan · 07-03-2012 10:21pm

bren2001 wrote: »

I was talking to one of the solicitors from o2 today. She came in to give us a lecture on contract law. I asked her how 48 gets away with the discrimination and she implied that it was a membership to a club and you can discriminate at certain ages.

At the end of the day, 48 is not a club.

It is blatant age discrimination by Telefonica in a desperate bid for market share.

bren2001 · 07-03-2012 10:33pm

Fungus wrote: »

At the end of the day, 48 is not a club.

It is blatant age discrimination by Telefonica in a desperate bid for market share.

It is discrimination but its legal discrimination. A club, which is why you buy membership, can discriminate for certain ages. Same way some clubs and pubs in town are over 21 and over 23, legally they can do that but its discrimination.

I dont agree with it but its just what she implied.

calex71 · 08-03-2012 1:38am

Saw loads of ads for 48 in he last few weeks and my 1st impression was how can they get away with discriminating like that?

So on to their web site I went, but after a read of their terms and conditions nowhere did I find they actually discriminate on age nor was I asked how old I was.

I didn't actually sign up so it might have later, but at a glance all that is discriminatory is the marketing, why they would want to alienate people who would pay the €10 a month and use the service less than an a phone addicted 18-22 year old is beyond me

Maybe they figure anyone older is less likely to swtich, which kind of makes sense.

mickey1985 · 08-03-2012 2:07pm

Just ported over from Meteor no hassle and im over the age of restriction

orourkk3 · 08-03-2012 8:35pm

So I ordered a sim card off 48 the other day. In the post today I got the 48 branded cardboard packaging but with absolutely nothing inside!! The package had been sealed with a piece of tape which was snapped. So my question is this, what should I have got in the sim switching pack. For those of you who have got the pack is their any literature inside and does it contain any personal information? Either 48 made a stupid mistake or somebody has swiped my 48 sim and I hope thats all they got!??

ft9 · 08-03-2012 8:48pm

orourkk3 wrote: »

So I ordered a sim card off 48 the other day. In the post today I got the 48 branded cardboard packaging but with absolutely nothing inside!! The package had been sealed with a piece of tape which was snapped. So my question is this, what should I have got in the sim switching pack. For those of you who have got the pack is their any literature inside and does it contain any personal information? Either 48 made a stupid mistake or somebody has swiped my 48 sim and I hope thats all they got!??

Nothing in it only the sim, number, pin and puk... No personal information.

conlor27 · 08-03-2012 9:49pm

Still having issues with porting, 48 said they're looking into it an will get back to me tomorrow. When i ring my old number (number im trying to port) off any network bar 48 it says "the number cannot be reached" but when i ring off another 48 phone my phone rings! Very bizarre! Anyone know what this means?

faolteam · 08-03-2012 10:41pm

Has anybody had any hassle asking for the credit in the Shops that are participating in 48 Network , ie are they asking about your age etc???

ft9 · 08-03-2012 10:50pm

faolteam wrote: »

Has anybody had any hassle asking for the credit in the Shops that are participating in 48 Network , ie are they asking about your age etc???

Seriously???

AlmightyCushion · 08-03-2012 11:12pm

faolteam wrote: »

Has anybody had any hassle asking for the credit in the Shops that are participating in 48 Network , ie are they asking about your age etc???

Yeah but it's handy in a way. If you need to buy booze but don't have ID you can just show them you're on 48 and you'll get served no hassle.

torrevieja · 11-03-2012 2:02am

but seriously has anyone been asked there age epecially if there over teh ag e

psychward · 11-03-2012 6:30am

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Yeah but it's handy in a way. If you need to buy booze but don't have ID you can just show them you're on 48 and you'll get served no hassle.

I dont think waving a phone at someone is legal proof of ID . e.g you could have nicked or borrowed the phone from someone... plus they don't do age checks do they so you could be 15 with one.

'48' Mobile operator - Prepaid offer - 3000mins & 5000 texts €10per month

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