Question about Mobile to Mobile over NIghts and Weekends (Not right !!!)

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nospa - 25 Mar 2004 16:08 GMT

March 25, 2004

Hello there:

For reference: My Cingular Plan give me 600 Anytime Minutes and 5000 Nights
and Weekend minutes. I am also paying additional to have 500 minutes Mobile
to Mobile.

I just found out that if I call another Cingular subscriber on nights or
weekends, they will use my mobile to mobile minutes first, before they use
my 50000 night and weekend minutes(???).
I feel this is not right since I am paying additional for 500 minutes
mobile to mobile and my package includes 5000 minutes for night and
Weekends.

It just happens that the first week of me using the phone, all my mobile to
mobile minutes are gone because they are taken them before they take my
night and weekend minutes, and if I try to call a Cingular subscriber during
the day I will be using my anytime minutes and not my mobile because they
are gone.
I was wondering if any of you feel the same way I feel that this is
extremely wrong? I was never told this was the way they would account for
the minutes. If is night or weekend, it should be taken from nights and
weekends minutes, not mobile.

Thank you for your thoughts,

Regards,

Malt

nospammaltpc@mindspring.com

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Randy I - 27 Mar 2004 03:45 GMT

> March 25, 2004
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Hello Malt. Yes, I believe that Cingular will first deduct from your
M2M bucket then from N&W. I noticed that on the website terms and
conditions when I signed up for a GSM FamilyTalk plan last May '03.

I have a friend who is in the same situation as you so I can sympathize.
I'm sure that there are many people in your situation. However, I
myself have unlimited M2M minutes as standard feature on my plan. From
my point of view I'd want them to take from my M2M before N&W. I'm
pretty sure this is why they don't offer the unlimited (or very large
amounts of) M2M as a standard feature on FT plans at the lower price
point anymore.

It would be cool if Cingular could set up some kind of option to chose
which bucket comes first.

-R.

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Dave C. - 28 Mar 2004 06:37 GMT

> March 25, 2004
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> mobile to mobile and my package includes 5000 minutes for night and
> Weekends.

That sucks. I almost signed up for M2M minutes, but (at the time) they
would have only applied to phone calls made between two cingular cell phones
that were BOTH IN MY HOME AREA. (If we're both home, why would we call each
other on the cell phone?) For that reason, I nixed the M2M idea and just
opted for the next largest "anytime" minute plan, to have more "anytime"
minutes to cover M2M use. I understand that M2M minutes are nationwide now,
which would be very helpful. I probably WOULD have bought into the M2M
minutes if they were nationwide. But now that I've learned that the M2M is
used instead of N/W minutes, I'm STILL glad I didn't buy the M2M. Sheesh,
what is M2M good for anyway, besides increasing Cingular's profits? What a
scam. -Dave

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Jud Hardcastle - 28 Mar 2004 16:52 GMT

> that were BOTH IN MY HOME AREA. (If we're both home, why would we call each
> other on the cell phone?) For that reason, I nixed the M2M idea and just

Huh? Home Area does not equal HOME, i.e. house. My Home Area is the
entire Dallas/Ft Worth metroplex out to 35 miles or so on all sides -- a
really big area. I would think that two cell phones in the same
household would find LOTS of use of M2M minutes "Honey could you stop
and get some steaks for supper" to "I'll be home in 20 minutes" to "Meet
me at the school the kid's done it again" :-) Without M2M one minute
comes out of BOTH phones regular minute packages.

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Anon - 28 Mar 2004 17:15 GMT

> > that were BOTH IN MY HOME AREA. (If we're both home, why would we call each
> > other on the cell phone?) For that reason, I nixed the M2M idea and just
> Huh? Home Area does not equal HOME, i.e. house. My Home Area is the
> entire Dallas/Ft Worth metroplex out to 35 miles or so on all sides -- a
> really big area.

In my case, we live right on the border of a "home" area. My wife spends
most of her time on the other side of the state border (which is not in our
home area). Me, I'm lucky if I spend more than one day a week in the same
TIME ZONE. :) (my work requires extensive travel)

But if we lived in the middle of a major metropolitan area and both worked
in the same city, then M2M minutes in our home area might be useful. In our
case, the only time M2M minutes would have kicked in (prior to the
Nationwide M2M minutes) would have been no earlier than ten minutes before
both of us were home, meaning plopped on the couch pondering what we're
going to do for dinner. :) -Dave

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