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| Thread ID: 101993 | 2009-08-03 23:45:00 | 2 Degrees pricing announced | nofam (9009) | PC World Chat |
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| 797802 | 2009-08-03 23:45:00 | New Zealand's new mobile network 2Degrees has released its pricing. Calls will cost 44c per minute to other mobile networks and New Zealand landlines, and 22c per minute between 2Degrees mobiles. Texts will cost 9c each. Data will cost 50c per megabyte. The network officially launches tomorrow. 2Degrees is only offering pre-pay plans at launch. The company is also offering 100 free texts with a $20 prepay top-up. The 2Degrees website went down this morning as the prices were announced. Pretty good? |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 797803 | 2009-08-03 23:49:00 | IMO it's lacking one thing - a decent txt plan. It will be great for a lot of people, but younger people who txt a lot are not going to be impressed. I'm seriously considering switching over, they are looking really good. Don't txt a lot, so it's no problem. :) |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 797804 | 2009-08-04 00:25:00 | The $1 for 10MB is not there for data? | Nomad (952) | ||
| 797805 | 2009-08-04 02:05:00 | i like how texts will cost 9c each and you don't even have to purchase a plan coz you can be on prepay. i wonder why vodafone charge 20cents per text on prepay. | lance4k (4644) | ||
| 797806 | 2009-08-04 02:09:00 | Because with no competition, Vodafone and Telecom have been able to get away with charging 20c per message. I plan to scrutinise my Telecom bills and figure out whether 2° is better value for me. I'm guessing with my data usage that the answer will be no. |
Nermal (7077) | ||
| 797807 | 2009-08-04 02:16:00 | Vodafone are going to lose a lot of prepay customers I think, unless they match this prices. Especially as you even have to pay vodafone to talk to someone to fix an issue. Neither of their 2 competitors do this, and I know many people who have been waiting for a better prepay provider. The call pricing is 1/2 what it is on their regular prepay plan, and even slightly less than their motormouth plan(which they nolonger offer to new customers). Vodafone even threatened that they may decrease the period where you will be required to top up from 12 months, to 6 or 3 months, if they are forced by regulators to decrease termination rates. | robbyp (2751) | ||
| 797808 | 2009-08-04 02:17:00 | Because with no competition, Vodafone and Telecom have been able to get away with charging 20c per message. I plan to scrutinise my Telecom bills and figure out whether 2° is better value for me. I'm guessing with my data usage that the answer will be no. It is the biggest rip off, as the data sent by text is only a few bytes. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 797809 | 2009-08-04 02:19:00 | 9c / text still doesn't beat text2k for $20... | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 797810 | 2009-08-04 02:20:00 | I plan to scrutinise my Telecom bills and figure out whether 2° is better value for me. I'm guessing with my data usage that the answer will be no. Well, I think I need to eat my hat. My XT bill this month is $45.37. I just calculated the same usage on 2° and it came to $17.30 (with no "magic" topups). I'm going to try a 2° SIM and see what the coverage is like. I had no Vodafone coverage when I moved into my current house so I switched to Telecom. Vodafone has subsequently done some more network buildout so it may be usable now. |
Nermal (7077) | ||
| 797811 | 2009-08-04 02:25:00 | Yeah, does anyone know what the QOS/coverage is like for 2D? | nofam (9009) | ||
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