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3 to start paying people to recieve calls (merged)
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This looks good on the surface but its a price rise by stealth!!
From 3's Press release:
"WePay prices
The new WePay top-ups are easy to understand, all-cash vouchers available in £10, £15 and £20 denominations, with no expiry date.
5p per minute cash credit for each minute of calls received
2p per text for texts received
10p a minute to call a 3 mobile anytime
30p a minute to other networks anytime
15p a minute to landlines and non-geographic numbers anytime
10p per text to any network
25p for a picture message to any network
50p per video message to any network"
From 3's Price Guide - Previous cash Top-Up Rates
10p a minute to call a 3 mobile anytime
10p a minute to landlines numbers anytime
20p a minute to other UK Mobile Networks
10p per text to any network
25p for a picture message to any network
50p per video message to any network
So they have increased the cost of MAKING calls on Wepay by 50% compared to the previous cash top-up prices. 15p/min to landlines and 30p/min to other networks. So it looks like take with one hand and give a little back with the other.
Is WePay a good deal?
You get £6.00 credit back if you receive 100 minutes of inbound calls and receive 50 texts. OK But if you make a similar amount of outbound calls to other networks and landlines it will have cost you 10p/min more for the calls to x/net mobiles and 5p/min more to landlines. Split it 50/50 and that means that you would be paying £5.00 more for calls to mobiles and £2.50 for calls to landlines.
Total extra cost £7.50
Amount of WePay Credit £6.00
More Expensive by £1.50!!
Not a good deal at all!0 -
I think they are taking the mickey out of the fact that they receive more than the other networks for received calls.
What if the other networks decided to pass on these higher costs to their customers? It might be time for a boycott of your friends on it - would you let them earn money for your call charges to them being too high?
Commercial suicide0 -
mobile companys say they will pay us to use their phones
but i have read on here that 3 pay as you go are rubbish
see todays sun
sorry can't do links
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006040038,00.html
or maybe i can do linksIT'S ALL ABOUT ME!!!:j:money:0 -
Would this work?
I am on orange 400 minute a month contact. I only usually use about 300 minutes, So I could use my remaining 100 minutes to phone my son on his 3 phone giving him 500 minutes credit.
Sounds to good to be true!0 -
Also, the cash credits are only valid for 30 days. No doubt that the topups are only valid for 30 days too?0
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iwantitnow wrote:Would this work?
I am on orange 400 minute a month contact. I only usually use about 300 minutes, So I could use my remaining 100 minutes to phone my son on his 3 phone giving him 500 minutes credit.
Sounds to good to be true!
It might be interesting if the rates are the same all the time, as you could call it at the weekend for 2p/min from a landline via 18185, thus getting a 60% discount - somehow I don't think the rates to 3 would stay the same for very long
Ofcom should view this as an abuse of 3's higher termination charges, and cut them to the same level as the other networks0 -
............so if I had a Vodafone PAYG SIM on the Stop the Clock tariff, I could call my 3 phone, spend an hour on that call at a cost £1.05, then I would be credited with £3. Is that so??0
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you could then call back in the other direction for 20 minutes - that's about the same ratio as my calling from 18185 at the weekend
........ until other companies react and have special tariffs to 3
but I still think it's daft, anti-social, and an abuse of the higher termination charges that were supposed to subsidise their start-up costs
- so ordinary punters will love it, then start to wonder why their friends don't call them as much any more0
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