Damn you o2 >_<

azezil

Ach I just downloaded my 'recent calls list' from the o2 site, turns out someone i got really pissed off with cause they weren't answering my txt's, wasn't actually receiving my txts >_<

d'oh

Thomas_S_Hunterson

If you ever need to talk about it, we're here to listen;)

azezil

Aw thanks sean, i'll be over for the butt sex later ^_^

Eminem

Yeah that can happen im with o2 aswell , Sumtimes when i send txts the message dosent deliver even though the phone is on :mad:

Thomas_S_Hunterson

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: How very dare you:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Sam Vimes

and this is why we have delivery reports

senordingdong

And do you people get charged for thesetexts?

Eminem

What?

azezil

And do you people get charged for thesetexts?

Well according to that report, no, although i'm skeptical about that.

Eminem

I have reports on my fone it hasnt happend in awhile but i hate when it happens

senordingdong

Tisk tisk tisk...more people tricked by o2.

You should all give meteor a shot.

Eminem

Yeah was thinking about that because if you top with euro 20 a month you can txt 085 numbers for free

Tar.Aldarion

azezil wrote:

Aw thanks sean, i'll be over for the butt sex later ^_^

That was some edit!
BTW why isn't everybody meteor by now...

azezil

Cause €ircom bought them

aidan_walsh

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

That was some edit!
BTW why isn't everybody meteor by now...

Don't they piggy back off the O2 network?

Eminem

How do u mean?

Tar.Aldarion

aidan_walsh wrote:

Don't they piggy back off the O2 network?

Ya I believe they did a deal with O2 to cover their only flaw which was coverage. Now they seem better in every way.

azezil

Meteor are using o2's network infrastructure, ergo you'll get the same coverage on either network. Personally I rather stay with o2, didn't meteor have a blackout over the new year, seems to me o2 will drop them like a hot poker if their network is under load

Tar.Aldarion

azezil wrote:

Meteor are using o2's network infrastructure, ergo you'll get the same coverage on either network. Personally I rather stay with o2

Any reason? I changed to meteor ffrom 02 a few months back because they seem cheaper in every way and solved their coverage problem.
Is there any reason they are good still or is it laziness 'loyalty' as it was for me. It took ages for me to get off my as and change.


Oh a sneak edit.
I guess there would be something in that sort of deal that says, oi you can't drop me biatch.

Eminem

I thought about chaning over but i dont think il do it any time soon

Eminem

The one good thing about metor they have cheaper calls and i think they give 350 free texts a month

Tar.Aldarion

You get free texts to meteor phones and cheaper texts.
Although I did like 02's text bundles.

_Kaiser_

azezil wrote:

Meteor are using o2's network infrastructure, ergo you'll get the same coverage on either network.

Not so.. I was in Cavan last weekend and had no signal for most of the time This wasn't a problem when I was still with O2. I tried selecting the O2 network manually (just out of curiosity) but got a message basically saying it couldn't changeover... unless I've missed something?

(That said though, Meteor is a lot cheaper/better than O2 imho)

_Kaiser_

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

You get free texts to meteor phones and cheaper texts.

Only if a pay-as-you-go customer, no?

Tar.Aldarion

Kaiser2000 wrote:

Not so.. I was in Cavan last weekend and had no signal for most of the time This wasn't a problem when I was still with O2. I tried selecting the O2 network manually (just out of curiosity) but got a message basically saying it couldn't changeover... unless I've missed something?

(That said though, Meteor is a lot cheaper/better than O2 imho)

It is so, they have the same coverage.
I don't know if it is only for pay as you go but I am pay as you go so quite possibly.

Ajnag

Word of warning about o2:
If you are on a bill pay and change your package or ownership of the no. they sneak in an extra years contract(without the option of a new phone). I now have to pay 150 to leave the ****s.

**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.**** em.

Eminem

If u text on line you get 350 texts fee to any number Its the same with o2 as far as i know

scuba steve

Meteor are well better than o2, especially now that the coverage has been sorted out (in most parts of the country). Now and then you might get a lil problem with the network, but you can get that with every network. I hated being with o2, they were very expensive and didnt like their attitude towards customers (on customer care)

scuba steve

Eminem wrote:

If u text on line you get 350 texts fee to any number Its the same with o2 as far as i know

nope, only get 30 with meteor on the internet a month, pay as you go anyway

Eminem

Rhat is not a lot of free texts but with o2 they give 250 a month . but i have to a gree what you said about customer care they can be rude at times

bluedolphin

i've two meteor phones, one bill, one pay-as-you-go (don't ask, long story, bah humbug, nothing to do with meteor, just me...)

I've been with meteor pay-as-you-go since the beginning :rolleyes: [/me waits for loyalty perks...] but updated to the newer rates when they introduced them there last summer. with it you get free 085 texts for 30 days when you top up by €20 in one go. alternatively you can buy a text bundle of 100 texts for €7.50 (i.e. 5c per text) ...you can't have both free texts and a text bundle and if you sign up for a bundle your 085 texts are automatically deducted from your bundle (yes, i speak from experience :mad:). also, you can only buy one text bundle in a month. text messages to other networks are normally 9c.

my bill phone contract is talk 200 - €40 per month including 200 minutes to any network and 60 text messages. afaik there's the option of buying a €7.50 add-on of either 3c calls or 5c texts, not 100 per cent certain about that, though. Text messages to other Meteor phones, outside your inclusive 60 texts, are charged as normal (9c).

30 free internet texts with pay-as-you-go; 300 texts and 30 group texts with bill pay.

have to say i think meteor is fairly ok now. at the beginning it was fairly shíte - coverage wasn't great except in cities, messages consistently failed to send, etc. - but it's alright now: I have full coverage, or almost-full coverage pretty much where ever I go, albeit I am living in a city.

Their deal with O2 is that if, on occasion, Meteor doesn't have reception, your phone automatically connects to the O2 network, and allows you to continue to have coverage on that. However, it can happen that neither O2 nor Meteor have coverage i.e. you're f*cked

A recent enough addition is that one can roam in GB automatically, without setting anything up. Pretty handy also.

/me waits by letter-box for pay-cheque from Meteor...and me waits...and waits...

scuba steve

ya that really annoyed me. Then i moved to Vodafone, then kept my 097 number and switched to meteor and never regretted it

scuba steve

ya i was with them within a couple of months from them starting up but then i kinda rolled over my phone on a ride-on lawnmower by accident and kinda blew up the fone. But i went back to them!

bluedolphin

scuba steve wrote:

ya i was with them within a couple of months from them starting up but then i kinda rolled over my phone on a ride-on lawnmower by accident and kinda blew up the fone. But i went back to them!

ahh, i got a €99 3310 for christmas when they started in 2001. by god i couldn't use my phone for about 3 hours at either side of midnight on new year's eve. /me sighs in nostalgia.:rolleyes:

Sam Vimes

azezil wrote:

Meteor are using o2's network infrastructure, ergo you'll get the same coverage on either network. Personally I rather stay with o2, didn't meteor have a blackout over the new year, seems to me o2 will drop them like a hot poker if their network is under load

in fact according to a guy on the mobiles forum, all his friends phones on o2 and voda died on the night and his meteor one worked

Eminem wrote:

The one good thing about metor they have cheaper calls and i think they give 350 free texts a month

they give 300 on the net, same as voda. o2 gives 250 but they can be sent abroad

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

You get free texts to meteor phones and cheaper texts.
Although I did like 02's text bundles.

meteor have a similar bundle. o2 give 100 for €7.50, meteor gives 150 for the same. of course you have a choice of free meteor-meteor or 5c texts to all. you cant have both

scuba steve wrote:

nope, only get 30 with meteor on the internet a month, pay as you go anyway

you're about a year out of date there mate. check again

meteor good points:
really really cheap

meteor bad points:
coverage can occasionally be dodgy
retarded customer care

i've learned to live with answering my own questions and the occasional dropped call :v:

the_syco

senordingdong wrote:

Tisk tisk tisk...more people tricked by o2.

You should all give meteor a shot.

Meteor Pro's: loyalty credit
Meteor Con's: the f**king network never f**king worked to allow me to use the f**king credit!!!:mad::mad::mad: Longest call would be 2 minutes, then it would cut me off, and there'd be no service for an hour or so, at times. Even when I was in Dublin city centre, ffs! And this is esp crap when a possible employer is talking to you, and the f**king meteor sh|t dies on you!:mad:

Random

You get more then 30 texts online with Meteor.. didn't we have this in another thread before? Depending on which PAYG tarriff you're on, you get from 30-300 free webtexts.


O2 positive is international web texts. ..

As for coverage on NY Eve ... in Dublin (where the coverage problems tend to be on NY Eve) - Meteor have their own network. They only use O2 outside major cities where there's about 4 or 5 customers ... Meteor also disabled delivery reports for that night while o2 and vodafone proberly had thousands flying about ...

bluedolphin

ciaranfo wrote:

You get more then 30 texts online with Meteor.. didn't we have this in another thread before? Depending on which PAYG tarriff you're on, you get from 30-300 free webtexts.

my apologies, i just logged into my PAYG account (anytime-plus) and I have 300 free webtext plus 30 group texts. I presume they've standardised all plans to have equal number of webtexts. Anyone else find it annoying that you can't send more characters than the equivilant of one text on the net - like you can't send a double message or whatever? it wrecks my head grrr :mad:

scuba steve

i only get 30free on the internte, must depend on types of tariffs or plans or whatever. Not that i need the free ones on the internet anyway with Free 085-085 texts for life!!

bluedolphin

scuba steve wrote:

i only get 30free on the internte, must depend on types of tariffs or plans or whatever. Not that i need the free ones on the internet anyway with Free 085-085 texts for life!!

are you on the old plan? the one pre-last august i think?

Eminem

Ye i hate that ive i60 free caracters it is not a lt when you think abot it it dose my head in i have to send a nother mesage after it kinkin to the same one:mad:

bluedolphin

Eminem wrote:

Ye i hate that ive i60 free caracters it is not a lt when you think abot it it dose my head in i have to send a nother mesage after it kinkin to the same one:mad:

uh huh....... /me puzzled trying to decipher post...

scuba steve

bluedolphin wrote:

are you on the old plan? the one pre-last august i think?

ya i think so. Since May ive had this current sim-card anyway. Dont want to change incase i do something to the free texts. I dont need the ones off the internet anyway

Random

iirc those on the free texts for life (life, not Nov 2008) only get 30 free texts online ... or so I think we decided on in another thread.

bluedolphin

ciaranfo wrote:

iirc those on the free texts for life (life, not Nov 2008) only get 30 free texts online ... or so I think we decided on in another thread.

ahhhh yes, that would make sense....

scuba steve

ciaranfo wrote:

iirc those on the free texts for life (life, not Nov 2008) only get 30 free texts online ... or so I think we decided on in another thread.

yup, thats my one anyway

Explosive_Cornflake

No, I'm on free texts for life, including the MMS's, and i have a few friends in that boat, and we all get 300 free web texts.

scuba steve

ah well, as ive said anyway i dont need the ones from the internet with the free texts for life

senordingdong

Also worth noting is the fact that meteor users can send call me's to people on any network, not just their own.

scuba steve

ya thats better than o2's and vodafones offers. Come on Meteor!!