Pay to "receive" calls???

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?

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Emjaye <[email protected]> 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.

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...".
>
>

"Emjaye" <[email protected]> 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.

"Emjaye" <[email protected]> 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
>

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

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
**** like this when on nightshift....

James Bell wrote:

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

How do you get this service?

"Emjaye" <[email protected]> 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.

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...


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Unkit

"Emjaye" <[email protected]> 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?

Its no longer sold
>
>
>

"Unkit" <[email protected]> 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..

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


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Unkit

"James Bell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "Unkit" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> 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

>
>

"Unkit" <[email protected]> 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

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.


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Unkit