Pay to "receive" calls??? [Archive]

Ext User(Emjaye)

06-10-2006, 03:23 PM

I'm looking at the plan options for the new Telstra 850 3G mobile phone.
One of them is this one:

My Hour

Nominate one hour of the day or night to receive the first 20 minutes of
each voice call (and video calls if you have a video mobile(3G)*2) made
within that hour free*3 . You can call any eligible fixed or mobile
number within Australia any day of the week.

I read the "things you need to know" blurb, but there's nothing there to
indicate that received calls are charged for.

If I'm reading the above wrong, what is Telstra trying to say? And why
mention the word "receive" when talking about not being charged?

Ext User(Rod Speed)

06-10-2006, 03:43 PM

Emjaye <emjaye_t@yarwho.com.au> wrote:

> I'm looking at the plan options for the new Telstra
> 850 3G mobile phone. One of them is this one:

> My Hour

> Nominate one hour of the day or night to receive the first 20 minutes
> of each voice call (and video calls if you have a video mobile(3G)*2)
> made within that hour free*3 . You can call any eligible fixed or
> mobile number within Australia any day of the week.

> I read the "things you need to know" blurb, but there's
> nothing there to indicate that received calls are charged for.

> If I'm reading the above wrong, what is Telstra trying to say?

That you receive no cost outgoing call, cretin.

> And why mention the word "receive"
> when talking about not being charged?

No surprise that it couldnt survive without a union.

Ext User(Alice)

06-10-2006, 06:13 PM

Emjaye wrote:
> I'm looking at the plan options for the new Telstra 850 3G mobile phone.
> One of them is this one:
>
> My Hour
>
> Nominate one hour of the day or night to receive the first 20 minutes of
> each voice call (and video calls if you have a video mobile(3G)*2) made
> within that hour free*3 . You can call any eligible fixed or mobile
> number within Australia any day of the week.
>
> I read the "things you need to know" blurb, but there's nothing there to
> indicate that received calls are charged for.
>
> If I'm reading the above wrong, what is Telstra trying to say? And why
> mention the word "receive" when talking about not being charged?

Yeah, poor choice of words, they obviously mean "GET the first 20
minutes of voice call...".
>
>

Ext User(Michael)

06-10-2006, 08:03 PM

"Emjaye" <emjaye_t@yarwho.com.au> wrote in message
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> I'm looking at the plan options for the new Telstra 850 3G mobile phone.
> One of them is this one:
>
> My Hour
>
> Nominate one hour of the day or night to receive the first 20 minutes of
> each voice call (and video calls if you have a video mobile(3G)*2) made
> within that hour free*3 . You can call any eligible fixed or mobile
> number within Australia any day of the week.

Its a typo. MyHour has been arounds for yonks.

Ext User(James Bell)

06-10-2006, 09:53 PM

Ext User(Emjaye)

07-10-2006, 01:43 PM

Alice wrote:

> Yeah, poor choice of words, they obviously mean "GET the first 20
> minutes of voice call...".

It doesn't help when they insert a long sentence in parentheses between
the key words.

Whatever, re-reading it, it makes sense, now. Should never really do
shit like this when on nightshift....

Ext User(Emjaye)

09-10-2006, 01:53 PM

James Bell wrote:

> I get paid to receive calls 5c a minute on my pre-paid Telstra..

How do you get this service?

Ext User(James Bell)

09-10-2006, 08:43 PM

"Emjaye" <emjaye_t@yarwho.com.au> wrote in message
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> James Bell wrote:
>
>> I get paid to receive calls 5c a minute on my pre-paid Telstra..
>
> How do you get this service?
>
>

Dunno.. just the plan i'm on. Called 'Call Credits' or some plan like that.
I get an sms around the 5th of each month telling me how much i made the
previous month.

Unkit

11-10-2006, 12:12 AM

Call credits was the prepaid plan offered by telstra after the 1c per min after 9pm for 15 minutes and before the current plans. They removed them without any warning, and you can not get back on those plans no matter when u purchased the starter kit...

Ext User(Michael)

11-10-2006, 10:13 PM

Ext User(James Bell)

15-10-2006, 08:03 PM

"Unkit" <Unkit.2fgucq@no-mx.phorums.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> Call credits was the prepaid plan offered by telstra after the 1c per
> min after 9pm for 15 minutes and before the current plans. They
> removed them without any warning, and you can not get back on those
> plans no matter when u purchased the starter kit...
>
>

Well i still get credits and I AINT moving..

Unkit

15-10-2006, 08:22 PM

Well, I think they can make you on the 31/03/07... so you may not have to. I am on the coke live plan, and thats when mine expires.... and I never wana leave :)

Ext User(Michael)

20-10-2006, 07:53 AM

"James Bell" <bellj@telstra.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Unkit" <Unkit.2fgucq@no-mx.phorums.com.au> wrote in message
> news:Unkit.2fgucq@no-mx.phorums.com.au...
>>
>> Call credits was the prepaid plan offered by telstra after the 1c per
>> min after 9pm for 15 minutes and before the current plans. They
>> removed them without any warning, and you can not get back on those
>> plans no matter when u purchased the starter kit...
>>
> Well i still get credits and I AINT moving..

What OP meant was, after 6/9/6, all NEW activations were on the new tariffs
and not on Call Credits.

Sounds like the OP is a tightarse, got cut off for having no credit for an
extended period, and then expected to go back on call credits.

sucker

>
>

Ext User(Michael)

20-10-2006, 07:53 AM

"Unkit" <Unkit.2fpskm@no-mx.phorums.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> Well, I think they can make you on the 31/03/07... so you may not have

Thats the current end date, but it may well be extended. Just like many
things, such as bonus options, get extended.

Even MobileNet to MobileNet is still around, and that started in 2000

Unkit

20-10-2006, 08:01 AM

Hopefully you are right, and it will get extended, but I very highly doubt that. Why would they pay all that money to draft up new contracts (or terms of service whatever you want to call it) to say that they could move you onto a new plan from time to time, when they had no intention of doing it.

I think the reason they let people stay on expired plans previously was that they had no right to demand anyone be moved.

Fingers crossed though, I am wrong, and I will get to use my coke live 06 sim and the call credits sim forever (btw, they make a perfect combination) He he he. I cut my phone bill down from $30 a month to $0 a month.

Unkit

20-10-2006, 08:06 AM

"James Bell" <bellj@telstra.com> wrote in message
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What OP meant was, after 6/9/6, all NEW activations were on the new tariffs
and not on Call Credits.

Sounds like the OP is a tightarse, got cut off for having no credit for an
extended period, and then expected to go back on call credits.

sucker
[color=blue]
>
>

Not really. What I meant was, you can no longer sign up for the Call credits plan.

I found out cause I ported my own number on it, and I was progressively trying to port all my family's number's onto it... Before I could finish, (1 person left) they changed the deals on me. Its okay, I had a Coke Live sim, so i got back at them, Now I use 1 minute below the fair play policy to receive money on 1 sim and get about $40 of credit for FREE. Telstra doesn't play fair, neither do I.

Ext User(Michael)

20-10-2006, 07:53 PM

"Unkit" <Unkit.2fy3n2@no-mx.phorums.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> Hopefully you are right, and it will get extended, but I very highly
> doubt that. Why would they pay all that money to draft up new
> contracts (or terms of service whatever you want to call it) to say
> that they could move you onto a new plan from time to time, when they
> had no intention of doing it.

Because thats the way its always done

> I think the reason they let people stay on expired plans previously was
> that they had no right to demand anyone be moved.

Nope, you can put a detrimental notice in, and remove a product with about
30 days notice