Alarm call Service

danuiseult

Hi,
I was desperately searching a wake up call provider - Virgin's service doesn't seem to work on my phone, BT charge a phenomenal £7 and my mobile alarm clock is less than useless! I have delayed sleep-phase disorder so I thought I'd try this for size.

I can't post a link as I post so infrequently (I just lurk!) but you can google ukwakeup I'm not advertising I genuinely want to know if this is my cheapest option and is not a scam??

I was wondering if anyone had tried this and can tell me if it works?

Apparently it used to be free but is sadly now 50p, still, not too bad for someone who has run out of ideas!!

I've booked one for tomorrow and am hoping it will work, i'll come back and let you know. I hope it's not a scam!! Anyone ever heard of it?
Best
D

Jemma-T

I hope you've not given your private info (banking, phone number, name or whatever) to some company you've dug up on Google.

Stompa

This:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/04/19/bt-are-charging-you-7-for-wake-up-call-115875-21288732/

seems to imply that BT has an automated service which costs 29p.

oneold

Stompa wrote: »

seems to imply that BT has an automated service which costs 29p.

*55*time#

35p per use or £2.50 a month on BT.

spike7451

danuiseult wrote: »

Hi,
I was desperately searching a wake up call provider - Virgin's service doesn't seem to work on my phone, BT charge a phenomenal £7 and my mobile alarm clock is less than useless! I have delayed sleep-phase disorder so I thought I'd try this for size.

I can't post a link as I post so infrequently (I just lurk!) but you can google ukwakeup I'm not advertising I genuinely want to know if this is my cheapest option and is not a scam??

I was wondering if anyone had tried this and can tell me if it works?

Apparently it used to be free but is sadly now 50p, still, not too bad for someone who has run out of ideas!!

I've booked one for tomorrow and am hoping it will work, i'll come back and let you know. I hope it's not a scam!! Anyone ever heard of it?
Best
D

Unless the Line Cards in V.M's Mux's are upgraded to include these services wont be avaiable.And at over £1000 for each card (& the can be up to 10 per Mux & over 100 Mux's per city on average,it's a lot of money to fork out for a feature not many will use.

danuiseult

Wow, thank you everyone for your responses.

I didn't give any private banking/card info; it's payable by SMS (50p a shot) and non-subscription.

I'm not with BT (so can't have the automated 29p version) and I phoned their operator and they quoted £6 to me for their cross network human version - they sounded quite embarrassed about it; I then found the same article you link to Stompa.

I'm with Virgin - I tried their +55+ service and it simply says I can't have it!!! So this seemed my best bet. So far it's worked every morning (I've booked it twice) and I'm on PAYG so I can see the exact debits. Anyway, if it serves to cure my delayed sleep phase/ broken Circadian Rythm issues, I'll be delighted at 50p per day (my texts are free anyway so no network charge).


Spike7451 have no idea what this means; I assume you mean it would be too costly for them to run it Maybe, however, from a customer's viewpoint, it's cheap and it works!

Let's hope I don't regret saying this and end up with huge bills. However, they do have quite transparent and humble sounding terms - God knows how they do it - sounds like Spike7451 does too!

I think I'm the only user mind you, I get the same SMS code every day and it linguistically implies I'm the first one booking each evening!!!

I'll let you know (probably with much sobbing) if I'm a prime mug!
x

spike7451

danuiseult wrote: »

Wow, thank you everyone for your responses.

I didn't give any private banking/card info; it's payable by SMS (50p a shot) and non-subscription.

I'm not with BT (so can't have the automated 29p version) and I phoned their operator and they quoted £6 to me for their cross network human version - they sounded quite embarrassed about it; I then found the same article you link to Stompa.

I'm with Virgin - I tried their +55+ service and it simply says I can't have it!!! So this seemed my best bet. So far it's worked every morning (I've booked it twice) and I'm on PAYG so I can see the exact debits. Anyway, if it serves to cure my delayed sleep phase/ broken Circadian Rythm issues, I'll be delighted at 50p per day (my texts are free anyway so no network charge).

Spike7451 have no idea what this means; I assume you mean it would be too costly for them to run it Maybe, however, from a customer's viewpoint, it's cheap and it works!

Let's hope I don't regret saying this and end up with huge bills. However, they do have quite transparent and humble sounding terms - God knows how they do it - sounds like Spike7451 does too!

I think I'm the only user mind you, I get the same SMS code every day and it linguistically implies I'm the first one booking each evening!!!

I'll let you know (probably with much sobbing) if I'm a prime mug!
x

Thanks,
it means just that,up to/over £10k to upgrade each Mux/exchange multiply by 100 Mux/exc per city....

I worked for them as a Service Tech.

Stompa

Just one further thought. Does your phone have an alarm facility built-in? Mine (Panasonic DECT) has one which it says rings for 3 minutes. There no sense paying for a service if your phone can do it for free.