Meteor... am i the only one??

Cutie18Ireland

you know the operator logo?? well mine suddenly changed to "meteor mobile" instead of just "meteor" anyone else get this??

chrislad

First I've heard of it.

rymus

mine still says meteor anyway

melekalikimaka

what phone ya usin?

thehomeofDob

Meteor here... on a z800. Has always been Meteor, unless I'm down the country and it's O2.

Agent Smith

Meteor here....

Are you bill pay or PAYG

Cutie18Ireland

PAYG its a nokia 6101 i just went on wap came off and it had changed....

godtabh

Mines meteor.

I wonder are they gona change the logo now that Eircom ownes them.

Barrie

Happens on Vodafone with me.Usually it says "Vodafone Irl" And then when I come off the wap it says "Vodafone Ireland".It does this sometimes doesn't bother me though.

Cutie18Ireland

Cutie18Ireland wrote:

PAYG its a nokia 6101 i just went on wap came off and it had changed....

They must have added a long name to the network. This always happens on Nokia phones on Vodafone, where the long name is "Vodafone-Ireland" and the short name is either "vodafone IE", "VFI" or (in buggy firmware) VF□.

1huge1

ive a v3x on 3 and it says 3 but its a picture not a word, wonder why the other networks havent done this

Cutie18Ireland

well its been there constantly since last night... ah well just looks weird

dubadubdub

Actually switched to Meteor today - after all the good advice on here re: call costs. Mine just says Meteor.

fletch

You seem to be the only one

I'll try my Meteor SIM in my 6680 later and see what happens.

EDIT: Nope, still says Meteor even after using WAP. Strange.

ciaran76

Checked my girlfriends phone last night and it just said "Meteor"

Cutie18Ireland

looks like its just me then... weird!

Cutie18Ireland

turns out its not just me, my kid sisters is the same now lol

xXxnaoisexXx

no its on my phone too...... just came tonight though

Mimikyu

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Net1

Me too ! "Meteor Mobile" from aboy 10 last night

marshmallow

Yeah, I noticed this as well. Mine just changed to Meteor Mobile sometime in the past week.. Dunno how it happened but it's hardly gonna make a difference to anything is it?

BuffyBot

Mine is still Meteor. I suspect they could be gradually changing it to Meteor Mobile and possibly eircom Mobile in time to come..

dubadubdub

BuffyBot wrote:

Mine is still Meteor. I suspect they could be gradually changing it to Meteor Mobile and possibly eircom Mobile in time to come..

Seems they will keep the meteor mobile brand for the personal use market and eircom mobile will be the corporate sector brand. Hopefully they won't use this as an excuse to up their charges!

BuffyBot

Seems they will keep the meteor mobile brand for the personal use market and eircom mobile will be the corporate sector brand. Hopefully they won't use this as an excuse to up their charges!

I've read that as being rumoured, but it doesn't really make much sense from a branding point of view. Who knows if the person who wrote the original story even had any relevant information of was just speculating. Either way, eircom haven't said - although the recent tweaking of the Meteor logo seen on adds etc does lend weight to the "slow conversion" theory.

dubadubdub

dubadubdub wrote:

Seems they will keep the meteor mobile brand for the personal use market and eircom mobile will be the corporate sector brand. Hopefully they won't use this as an excuse to up their charges!

If Meteor upped their charges then they're toast. They'd be no competition to Vodafone or O2.

BrianD

Karsini wrote:

If Meteor upped their charges then they're toast. They'd be no competition to Vodafone or O2.

Why not? They have the coverage and capacity. They carried more texts then O2 on New Years Eve.

On an aside, I notice that 'Eircell purple' is now in the Meteor logo.

I was gonna mention that alright, is there any possibility they'd bring back the Eircell brand? I'd wonder if they could though....

A lot of people still assume "meteor are crap, their coverage is crap..." etc, so I'd say that alone would be enough to cause serious problems for them if they raised prices.

BuffyBot

I'd wonder if they could though....

I'm fairly sure they didn't retain the Eircell name - they demerged Eircell from eircom into a seperate company, which was gobbled up by Vodafone - which would lead me to think that Vodafone would now own the name Eircell.

kmart6

Mine changed last night!!!

Here's a question for everyone who's oplogo has changed, do you all have Nokia phones?

fletch

I got a message asking did I want to update my time and date...I clicked OK....and then my operator logo changed...if I had said no to the update of the date and time, would the logo not have changed?

Pythia

BrianD wrote:

Why not? They have the coverage and capacity. They carried more texts then O2 on New Years Eve.

On an aside, I notice that 'Eircell purple' is now in the Meteor logo.

Link?
Haven't seen that yet.

Cutie18Ireland

Karsini wrote:

Here's a question for everyone who's oplogo has changed, do you all have Nokia phones?

yup and my sister who got it does too...other has a sagem and hasnt changed and the bf has a sharp it hasnt changed either

Sam Vimes

my gfs changed last night. she has a nokia. but mine hasnt changed and i have a nokia too

kmart6

well mine has changed and i have a Nokia 6230 but my girlfriends hasnt and she has a 6101

Sam Vimes

my gf has a 6230 as well. but i don't think its to do with the type of phone because cutie18ireland has a 6101 too

kmart6

yeah i know but i was just sayin cause there both Nokia's

Just as I thought. It seems only Nokia phones support changing the logo over GPRS. I've never seen it change on any other make. And up to now I've only ever seen it on Vodafone.

But why Vodafone use "VFI" on the series 40 phones I've no idea, it just looks stupid in my opinion.

Stench Blossoms

Mine changed the other day aswell. Thought it was a bit strange alright.

Cutie18Ireland

now mine has changed back to just meteor lol

edanto

If you want to get rid of it, use your phone to browse to

http://www.gmayer.net/oplogo/blank.asp and it'll download a blank logo.

Photos look so much sweeter without a phone company name plastered across them!

kmart6

Mine changed back to Meteor yesterday evening....very strange!!!

marshmallow

Karsini wrote:

Here's a question for everyone who's oplogo has changed, do you all have Nokia phones?

Yup, mine's Nokia.

marshmallow

kmart6 wrote:

Mine changed back to Meteor yesterday evening....very strange!!!

Just checked mine now and it's back to just Meteor too!

L1011

My Nokia never changed to anything but "Meteor", and its modern enough for them to have even sent nasty graphics to it to make it do so, if they wanted

Zambia

If you have a "Meteor mobile " logo connect to wap it will change Back to Meteor , problem solved...

Maybe it was just a test?

Package

does anyone know how to get the meteor thing of the phone in the first place,,, im using a 6210i i think,, does anyone have any secret codes or interesting stuff for it?