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  1. #31

    Re: easyMobile.con - Be Aware!

    We understand your concerns regarding the minimum usage fee.

    The minimum usage fee is to the benefit of the vast majority of our
    customers. In order to maintain very competitive prices for all our
    customers we feel it is important prices and fees reflect the
    underlying costs. The fee is applied to accounts that have used less
    than £5 in any given three calendar month period. We feel £5 is not a
    high amount of usage to reach in 3 months and the majority of people
    who use our service do exceed this easily and therefore do not incur
    the charge.

    Unfortunately it costs us money to keep every account active on the
    network. Should we not charge a minimum usage fee, in the event usage
    is very low, we would have to consider putting up basic prices for all
    customers. We hope you will appreciate our rationale that it is better
    to keep our prices low and continue to offer a great service. Please
    note that we offer per second billing and that we do not charge a
    minimum call fee as most other networks do. Moreover call credit with
    easyMobile never expires, and we do not force our customers to specific
    patterns of top up neither in terms of absolute amounts of call credit
    purchased nor in terms of frequency of top ups.

    As our prices are significantly lower than most other networks it is
    simple to see that even with the 75p charge, you still make great
    savings:

    E.g. With easyMobile - If you only used your phone for 10 minutes a
    month at 15p per minute would cost £1.50. Add on the 75p charge and
    you pay £2.25 total.

    Orange/Virgin - 10 minutes a month at 35p per minute = £3.50
    (same rates 24/7 2) (Virgin 8,9 )

    T-mobile - 10 minutes a month at 30p per minute = £3.00
    (Relax 5)

    O2 - 10 minutes a month at 40p per minute = £4.00
    (Pay & Go Talkalot 1)

    We remain committed to provide our customers with the best mix of
    quality, service and attractive prices. As you can see, even when
    incurring the minimum usage fee in the examples above, you will still
    be better off with easyMobile.




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  2. #32

    Re: easyMobile.con - Be Aware!

    On 9 Feb 2006 06:08:42 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

    > As our prices are significantly lower than most other networks it is
    >simple to see that even with the 75p charge, you still make great
    >savings:
    >
    >E.g. With easyMobile - If you only used your phone for 10 minutes a
    >month at 15p per minute would cost £1.50. Add on the 75p charge and
    >you pay £2.25 total.
    >
    >Orange/Virgin - 10 minutes a month at 35p per minute = £3.50
    >(same rates 24/7 2) (Virgin 8,9 )
    >
    >T-mobile - 10 minutes a month at 30p per minute = £3.00
    >(Relax 5)
    >
    >O2 - 10 minutes a month at 40p per minute = £4.00
    >(Pay & Go Talkalot 1)


    Tesco Value: 10 minutes per month at 15p total cost £1.50

    And if these calls are not cross-net, the other networks are as cheap
    per call as easymobile. Without a 75p per month fee.

    >As you can see, even when
    >incurring the minimum usage fee in the examples above, you will still
    >be better off with easyMobile.


    Yes, that's true as long as you are careful to pick the right
    examples. However it is a bit dishonest to only list the more
    expensive ones, and to assume that all calls are cross-network.

    How about a touch of reality?

    A low user may only call a few numbers, so they could make them Tesco
    "favourite numbers" and only pay 10p per minute - so it would only
    cost £1 per month: considerably less than half the cost of easymobile.

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  3. #33
    Ivor Jones
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    Re: easyMobile.con - Be Aware!



    <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]
    > We understand your concerns regarding the minimum usage
    > fee.


    [Rest of repeated stuff snipped]

    > As our prices are significantly lower than most other
    > networks it is simple to see that even with the 75p
    > charge, you still make great savings:


    No I don't.

    > E.g. With easyMobile - If you only used your phone for 10
    > minutes a month at 15p per minute would cost £1.50. Add
    > on the 75p charge and you pay £2.25 total.
    >
    > Orange/Virgin - 10 minutes a month at 35p per minute =
    > £3.50 (same rates 24/7 2) (Virgin
    > 8,9 )
    >
    > T-mobile - 10 minutes a month at 30p per minute = £3.00
    > (Relax 5)
    >
    > O2 - 10 minutes a month at 40p per minute = £4.00
    > (Pay & Go Talkalot 1)


    I notice you omit to mention Tesco. They do not have a minimum charge and
    with my usage most of my calls are to my 3 favourite numbers at 10p/min.
    The few others that are not are offset by these, so I am still better off
    on Tesco not your system. Also Tesco use O2 not T-Mobile which has
    virtually no coverage around here.

    > We remain committed to provide our customers with the
    > best mix of quality, service and attractive prices. As
    > you can see, even when incurring the minimum usage fee in
    > the examples above, you will still be better off with
    > easyMobile.


    Wrong.

    Ivor





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