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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / July 2004GPRS and/or MMS on Telstra Prepaid
Any goss on when Telstra will provide this service? My Telstra Prepaid is languishing in the desk drawer now that I have these services working with competitor prepaids cards. The Telstra prepaid WAP service, served over CSD and time-charged, seems expensive and inconvenient compared with the always-on data-charged (in some cases not!) GPRS competitors. GPRS MMS is Available on Telstra Prepaid Plus, not sure about Telstra Prepaid, but that will be forced over shortly anyway, no GPRS WAP yet though and probably never will be, telstra's to tight incase someone went a few kb over there calls and didnt have credit.. > Any goss on when Telstra will provide this service? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > compared with the always-on data-charged (in some cases not!) GPRS > competitors. > GPRS MMS is Available on Telstra Prepaid Plus, not sure about Telstra > Prepaid, but that will be forced over shortly anyway, no GPRS WAP yet though > and probably never will be, telstra's to tight incase someone went a few kb > over there calls and didnt have credit.. You will find that Telstra writes off more from their prepaid products than any other carrier They can afford to with there sh.t call rates > > GPRS MMS is Available on Telstra Prepaid Plus, not sure about Telstra > > Prepaid, but that will be forced over shortly anyway, no GPRS WAP yet [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > You will find that Telstra writes off more from their prepaid products than > any other carrier "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said >> GPRS MMS is Available on Telstra Prepaid Plus, not sure about Telstra >> Prepaid, but that will be forced over shortly anyway, no GPRS WAP yet [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > You will find that Telstra writes off more from their prepaid products than > any other carrier Only because they are too cheap to pay for real-time billing on non-voice products.  SignatureKwyj. (Remove your panties to reply by email) > "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Only because they are too cheap to pay for real-time billing on non-voice > products. The product is exiting. No need to pay for anything "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said >> "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > The product is exiting. No need to pay for anything The same limitation applies to C8, stupid. SignatureKwyj. (Remove your panties to reply by email) > "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > The same limitation applies to C8, stupid. Very little gets written off on Telstra prepaid plus Not for years "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said >> >> Only because they are too cheap to pay for real-time billing on > non-voice [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Very little gets written off on Telstra prepaid plus > Not for years Wrong again. Eg. You have 50c credit. You make 100 SMS calls in one day (at 25c each). $24 gets written off at the end of the day. SignatureKwyj. (Remove your panties to reply by email) > "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Eg. You have 50c credit. You make 100 SMS calls in one day (at 25c each). $24 > gets written off at the end of the day. The IN will not allow you to make 100 SMSes when you have 50c credit. "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said >> "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > The IN will not allow you to make 100 SMSes when you have 50c credit. Wrong. The IN has no idea because MICA calculates them in batches once a day (no real-time debits for SMS) and updates the IN with the new credit at that time. As a prepaid account cannot go into debt, any negative balance is brought back to $0. SignatureKwyj. (Remove your panties to reply by email) > "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > time. As a prepaid account cannot go into debt, any negative balance is > brought back to $0. Sorry, but thats crap. I sent an SMS, two minutes later the IN balance was 25c less. > Sorry, but thats crap. > I sent an SMS, two minutes later the IN balance was 25c less. However it works, it is highly variable. I have used WAP and SMS on TPP+ and the charges have taken anywhere from one minute to one day to be applied to my account, with WAP especially being slow. Albinus. > > Sorry, but thats crap. > > I sent an SMS, two minutes later the IN balance was 25c less. > > However it works, it is highly variable. I have used WAP and SMS on TPP+ and > the charges have taken anywhere from one minute to one day to be applied to > my account, with WAP especially being slow. The charge in the I.N. is updated immediately. "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said >> > Sorry, but thats crap. >> > I sent an SMS, two minutes later the IN balance was 25c less. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > The charge in the I.N. is updated immediately. Nope. SignatureKwyj. (Remove your panties to reply by email) > "Michael" <michael@yahoo.com> said > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Nope. It sure is. Check the ACCB in PPMBAL, send a text, then do another enquiry. Updated immediately. Tried the above myself. Does Telstra Pre-Paid not provide GPRS WAP because it would require a billing delay? Maybe Telstra needs to upgrade its accounting system. iSIM hits my prepaid with a charge as soon as I complete a GPRS session. Presumably the iSIM system will cut me off mid-stream if I run my funds to nil. > GPRS MMS is Available on Telstra Prepaid Plus, not sure about Telstra > Prepaid, but that will be forced over shortly anyway, no GPRS WAP yet though [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > compared with the always-on data-charged (in some cases not!) GPRS > > competitors. > Does Telstra Pre-Paid not provide GPRS WAP because it would require a > billing delay? Maybe Telstra needs to upgrade its accounting system. Telstra prepaid is closing in less than a year. Thats why it doesnt provide GPRS. > Any goss on when Telstra will provide this service? > > My Telstra Prepaid is languishing in the desk drawer now that I have these It will be permanently gone in March 2004, so I doubt GPRS and MMS will ever come along. > > Any goss on when Telstra will provide this service? > > > > My Telstra Prepaid is languishing in the desk drawer now that I have these > > It will be permanently gone in March 2004, so I doubt GPRS and MMS will ever > come along. March 2004 ? March 2005 > > > Any goss on when Telstra will provide this service? > > > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > March 2004 ? > > > Any goss on when Telstra will provide this service? > > > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > > March 2004 ? Thats marketing not communicating with customers ;-) Nah, March 2005. Sorry for the error. > > Any goss on when Telstra will provide this service? > > > > My Telstra Prepaid is languishing in the desk drawer now that I have these > > It will be permanently gone in March 2004, so I doubt GPRS and MMS will ever > come along. That's what they said in October 2003. > > > Any goss on when Telstra will provide this service? > > > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > That's what they said in October 2003. They gave no specific date until this year |
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