Why hang up after 59 mins?

Charlie-Bravo

What's the reason these guys in Eircom, BT, UTV Talk etc. require you to hang up before the hour mark so that you can avail of the free call landline to landline?

shakencat

astrofluff wrote: »

What's the reason these guys in Eircom, BT, UTV Talk etc. require you to hang up before the hour mark so that you can avail of the free call landline to landline?

not sure..
same with meteor though

Gillington

astrofluff wrote: »

What's the reason these guys in Eircom, BT, UTV Talk etc. require you to hang up before the hour mark so that you can avail of the free call landline to landline?

I dont get ya? I'm with eircom and we get free phoneca;;s landline to landline for up to one hour or as you say if we hang up on 59 mins,then we can just ring back the person for another hour for free.I'm not exactly sure why they dont let you go for 2 hours straight but more then likely its money.

Moriarty

As far as I know, it's to discourage people leaving a modem permenantly connected/online for internet access.

amacachi

Moriarty wrote: »

As far as I know, it's to discourage people leaving a modem permenantly connected/online for internet access.

That's what I'd've thought.

Charlie-Bravo

The problem I have is the missus uses the phone and doesn't watch the clock...grr when I see 1 hour+ and end up paying for the whole call!

Fuzzy Clam

Moriarty wrote: »

As far as I know, it's to discourage people leaving a modem permenantly connected/online for internet access.

Free calls have nothing to do with the modem!

runswithascript

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Free calls have nothing to do with the modem!

I read when it was mention with this face - :eek:

Erbium

shakencat wrote: »

not sure..
same with meteor though

Thats because Meteor are Eircom....

techguy

astrofluff wrote: »

The problem I have is the missus uses the phone and doesn't watch the clock...grr when I see 1 hour+ and end up paying for the whole call!

Thats your reason right there...:mad:

Fuzzy Clam

LA3G wrote: »

I read when it was mention with this face - :eek:

How does the modem permanently connected to the internet have any bearing on free landline to landline calls? :eek:

rmacm

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

How does the modem permanently connected to the internet have any bearing on free landline to landline calls? :eek:

If an ISP supplies you with a geographical number e.g. 01 xxxxxxx the exchange won't be able to distinguish the call from a normal voice call so if you didn't have to hang up after 59 minutes you could leave your modem connected to the ISP permanently.

If you use a 1850 or 1890 to get dial up access (think Eircom/Indigo use these for dial up) you'll be charged differently to a normal voice call anyway.

Fuzzy Clam

Thanks for the reply, rmacm.

I was expecting the Troll to answer tho!

runswithascript

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Thanks for the reply, rmacm.

I was expecting the Troll to answer tho!

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

How does the modem permanently connected to the internet have any bearing on free landline to landline calls? :eek:

On posting, referencing the previous posters statement about the modem affecting calls I at the time believed it not to.

What troll? Welcome to the internets.

Fuzzy Clam

Ok. I think I understand now.
I think there's a bit of a language barrier here.

LA3G wrote: »

I read when it was mention with this face - :eek:

It's just that that does not make a lot of sense to me.:)

Worztron

Do Smart Telecom also have this 59 minute rule?

Spear

You can ask Smart directly here:

http://support.smarttelecom.ie/forums/


as there was no need to go digging up a nearly 2 year old thread.