andy wrote:
> They've already sold us £72 credit for £2, then chucked in a load of
> extra free calls, so I'm not asking for more right now
I know, bit of a cheek of me at the moment cos I'm using oddles of
airtime that cost me £1 and today have made free calls
> But you wonder just how long they will carry the bets of these
> marketing losses, and how soon the captured customers will churn when
> the offers tail off
Exactly hence my thoughts at what would be a mega package when the
deals expire
> In Denmark they achieved over 10% of the market in a year, but it seems
> rather slower here for some reason
I think because we have a rather saturated market and user inertia.
I've got a pocketful of SIMs, Orange for data. Tmobile for xnet. Voda
for Passport and Stop the Clock. Virgin for roaming
GPRS. Cellnet/O2
cos I have a legacy paid up for life All Time 50 (50 minutes month for
lifewith no further fees - £60 off ebay 4 years ago). I would like to
simplify things hence my thoughts about Easy - or indeed any other
telco.
I'm using Easy on an XDA as it gives the best combination for me on
data and xnet. I also use my Cellnet/O2 Alltime 50
SIM (peak) and Voda
(off peak) for voice on a dual
sim'd K700i. If Easy instead of giving
all this airtime away gave me 12p (or less) xnet calling and Orange
data rates (part way there) that would be cool as I could then drop my
Orange and Tmobile SIMs.
Easy have shown that they are willing to change some of their pricing
structures so who knows.
It would be cool not to have the 75p charge but there again I think it
not unreasonable to make 11 mins of chargeable calls a month. For those
who only have the
SIM for emergency use, fine, but the cost of
servicing a number that is rarely used is passed on to those who use
the service rather more often. I am a tight arse myself but I find some
posts in this and other NG's incredible, e.g. one poster had a
SIM in a
drawer !! and wanted to keep the number active, he had no incoming
calls and didn't want to make a five second call every six months or
whatever because that would cost him 5p! yet he expects the telcos to
pick up the cost of servicing his number which is not used and pass it
on to us. In the US if you don't put credit on after 90 days they close
the account and reuse the number (bit iffy).
Regards
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