Meteor Sony Ericsson K700i €129

Ernesto

with up to €50 call credit. cant go wrong

LegacyUser

it aint on their site

Ernesto

paperclip wrote:

it aint on their site

yes it is, dipstick

http://www.meteor.ie/makethemove/k700i.html

chrislad

It's actually only €40 credit. The older packs were €50 and when they run out of stock, it's €40. You may be lucky and get one of the €50 packs, but as of October 3rd, all 700i's will be shipping with €40 credit, not €50.

LegacyUser

Ernesto wrote:

yes it is, dipstick

http://www.meteor.ie/makethemove/k700i.html

FCUK YOU ASSHOLE

chump

wehweh

Pacifico

lol

carbsy

hmmmm

jonny68

Can these phones be unlocked handy enough?

fish fingers

i got my old sony t630 unlocked no problem before i sold it on

drdre

thats a very good deal.why are they so cheap.:D
can they be unlocked.

chrislad

All Meteor phones can be unlock, plus there is very little branding on them. Sony Ericssons are a little bit harder to unlock though. You will need to go to shop to get it done, as there's no codes as far as I know.

Ernesto

paperclip wrote:

FCUK YOU ASSHOLE

not my fault your so simple that you couldnt navigate through the site properly before you posted. ye big nipple

Mossy Monk

tbh

Blade

Paperclip and ernesto: 1 month ban from bargain alerts

djsim

This isint a bad offer 129 quid eant bad. I am thinking of taking up this offer next wk with Meteor for the "free" texting with that phone

Can I ask (whose is with Meteor) are they any good? I was told that they share O2 network and once you go out of Meteor's range you swich to O2 and pay roaming, is that ture????

melekalikimaka

no thats total bull, metoer as full coverage and savage rates, if metoer was a girl...id marry her

palance

djsim wrote:

This isint a bad offer 129 quid eant bad. I am thinking of taking up this offer next wk with Meteor for the "free" texting with that phone

Meteor no longer offers free Meteor-to-Meteor texts for new customers.

The_Conductor

melekalikimaka wrote:

no thats total bull, metoer as full coverage and savage rates, if metoer was a girl...id marry her

Nope- not true exactly......
They have a roaming agreement with o2 valid up to June 2007 while they roll-out their own network.

Press release from Meteor on their agreement with o2 below:


10th August 2004: Meteor Mobile Communications has announced that it has signed a National Roaming Agreement with mmo2 Ireland that will allow it to offer customers national coverage in advance of the completion of its own network roll-out. o2 will provide Meteor with national roaming services in specific areas of the country where Meteor does not have full network coverage as yet, including Counties Kerry, Donegal, Mayo, Cavan, Sligo and Leitrim, parts of counties Limerick, Galway and Cork, and parts of Roscommon, Longford, Clare.

The agreement does not cover Limerick City, Cork City or Galway City where Meteor has full coverage on its own network. The agreement will run for 30 months beginning on September 1st, with coverage services being introduced gradually throughout the geographic roaming areas over the following weeks. Meteor has already achieved 90% population coverage on its own network and this agreement will mean that Meteor customers will now be able to make and receive calls on the o2 network in areas where Meteor does not yet have full coverage.

There will be no additional charge to Meteor customers for availing of national roaming and services will be available on both 2G and 2.5G networks, covering voice calls, SMS and GPRS services including Multimedia and photo messaging. Meteor will continue to build out its own network and roaming services will be discontinued on a gradual basis over the duration of the agreement as Meteor completes its own network build and introduces its own coverage.

Stewart Sherriff, Meteor's Chief Executive, said " This is a commercial deal that makes sense for both Meteor and o2, but of more importance is the way it will benefit all mobile phone users because we will now have a playing pitch that is a lot more level".

" We have been aggressively building out our own network and we will continue to do so, but this agreement gives us coverage throughout the country well ahead of schedule", he added. " This means that competition will become a lot keener throughout the market because we will now be competing on a more equal footing and without the coverage issues that we have faced while we have been building our own network", he continued.

For further information please contact:
For Meteor
Andrew Kelly
Director, Corporate Affairs

For o2 Ireland
Johanna Cassells
Tel: 086 814 0614

Atlas_IRL

u can get them unlocked in moore st for 20 quid.. girl at work got it done

jonny68

I remember buying a Sony Ericsson T630 before on O2 and i was informed that you need to spend at least €120 in credit before you can get it unlocked and that it can't be unlocked otherwise,im just wondering was that true and if so does the same apply to this K700i?

djsim

Thank you smccarrick for the detailed response.

P.S. the offer for free texts is not up untill the 7th Nov 2005

moridin

This the new free text promotion? If so I looked at it in more detail and you need to top your phone up by €20 a month, every month, to qualify for it.

djsim

I was looking into the offer. If you top up your phone each month by 20 euro (has to be one single top up) and you get free text messages till 2008 between Meteor phones. Not bad.

A lot of my mates are changing over. I am with O2 (bill phone) at the moment and I am cancelling that today.

The_Conductor

Something that I would be very wary about is the fact that Eircom are in the process of taking Meteor over. Their stated reason for buying the company from C&W is "To add value for our business customers". Thus they are stating that Meteor's previous policy of chasing the prepaid market is as good as over that their future target market are the bill-pay customer. Towards this end, they have also set E14m aside for upgrading to 3G facilities.

Anyone who has had any dealings with Eircom in the past will understand my distinct unease at having anything to do with them going forwards.

Just something to have a think about......

kmart6

Actually I was reading somewhere the other day where Eircom have no intention of changing Meteor's policy,they intend on keeping the low prices etc....

Redrocket

doesnt matter, eircom are whores, if they had their way, we would all still be on 56k dialup and paying something silly for mobile comms. thank you comreg and general competition.
anyhow, think ill buy this phone some day soon, i have the div dongle so unlocking and unbranding is easy, great value phone

RicardoSmith

I too think Eircom are the consumers worst enemy.

buddy

Hate to tell ya but none of the "competition" to eircom care about you enough to put a line into your home, whether you're with eircom or not you're paying them something as the competition uses their cabling.

The_Conductor

buddy wrote:

Hate to tell ya but none of the "competition" to eircom care about you enough to put a line into your home, whether you're with eircom or not you're paying them something as the competition uses their cabling.

Yes.
The reason competition uses their cabling is that Eircom used their monopoly position to run cables all over the place pretty much without any constraint on their activities. They, along with all the other incumbent telecom companies, were directed by both national and EU legislation to implement "local loop unbundling" whereby other telecom companies could install their equipment into exchanges and complete the last part of the journey to the customer over the pre-existing cables. It is ludicrous to imagine that each and every customer would justify an individual cable being run to their house as they jumped ship from the incumbent, along with the newcomer having to figure a manner to connect them into the national network.

Eircom is the second worst offendor in Europe, insofar as it refuses or delays requests from customers to transfer their lines to alternate vendors. Even so- many telecom customers are taking this on the chin and cutting their services with Eircom and initialising fresh services with other vendors (although this means they cannot keep their original phone numbers). Smart Telecom have a decent write-up on this practice on their website.

I personally have had Eircom delay for 2 years releasing my phone line to an alternate telecom company- and have made official complaints to Comreg over it (not that it got me anywhere......)

Eircom now make 60% of their revenue from static line rentals before anyone ever makes a call- so it is in their interests to make it as difficult as possible for anyone to move away from them. It is not a case of "none of the"competition" to eircom care about you enough to put a line into your home" - it is more a case of the incumbent making it impossible to keep your number if they do, and even then there are boatloads of people jumping ship anyway. (Current count, inclusive of business customers, is about 220,000 lines- and rising).

Eircom is a behemouth trying to defend its monopoly, pure and simple. Despite their attempts- business customers in particular, are moving away from them in favour of taking integrated BB/LL/Mob packages from BT-Ireland, NTL, Smart, and others. Eircoms original justification for buying Meteor was "to offer a more integrated package to our business customers".

According to last weeks papers, now that Eircom is the de-facto owner of a mobile network as well, two companies are undertaking due diligence of the company with the intention of purchasing it outright. Eircom funded the purchase of Meteor with the issue of Euro 400m in fresh shares. These shares were sold at a steep discount to market prices (to ensure they sold.....). However it is possible to trade in these shares prior to trading on the open market (which begins next Wednesday). It is thought that trading houses have purchased up to 15% of the voting rights of the company on behalf of Mobilcom of Switzerland and/or Portugal Telecom. They both aim to expand Meteors customer base and to increase its revenue per customer to European averages- which is why they have now valued Eircom at between 2.8 and 3.1 billion Euro.

The writing is on the wall, if you stop to read it.......

LegacyUser

Ernesto wrote:

not my fault your so simple that you couldnt navigate through the site properly before you posted. ye big nipple

How dare you associate a nipple with a dipstick!! :eek:

munzab

would that offer exist if i wanted to upgrade?would i get the E130 euros an upgrade entitles me to?

maidhc

smccarrick wrote:

The reason competition uses their cabling is that Eircom used their monopoly position to run cables all over the place pretty much without any constraint on their activities.

The cables were run by Telecom Eireann which was a state owned company operating under a statutory monopoly. No private company in their right minds would pay for all that cabling, but eircom got it cheap.

However after paying for all that copper the government sold it all and it has now ended up in the hands of a few weathy investors. What we now have is about the same as NTR owning every road in Ireland.

I am still on 56k dialup, and Eircom and those who sold the company to profiteers are directly to blame.

The_Conductor

maidhc wrote:

The cables were run by Telecom Eireann which was a state owned company operating under a statutory monopoly. No private company in their right minds would pay for all that cabling, but eircom got it cheap.

However after paying for all that copper the government sold it all and it has now ended up in the hands of a few weathy investors. What we now have is about the same as NTR owning every road in Ireland.

I am still on 56k dialup, and Eircom and those who sold the company to profiteers are directly to blame.

I agree with you 100%
In addition to all of the above, and a point which has not been made, is the fact that all those cables and equipment in the exchanges is degrading and has a finite lifespan. At present Eircom capital expenditure is slightly under 1/4 the amount of the depreciation of their equipment and cabling (according to their last annual report....)

As for those who are to blame- I would put a large portion of the blame at the former CEO's door, Mr. Alfie Kane

Interesting article here:

http://www.rte.ie/business/1999/0928/moneymakers.html

I hate Eircom......