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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / October 2003Virgin Texts
If Virgin charged 5p for every text to every network, they would make a fortune > If Virgin charged 5p for every text to every network, they would make a > fortune have you changed your email or something? i'm sure i killfiled you before! > If Virgin charged 5p for every text to every network, they would make a > fortune That's a stupid thing to say. A network that charges 10p each for them and if only sent half as many, makes more money. Steve Terry > > If Virgin charged 5p for every text to every network, they would make a > > fortune [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Steve Terry Alot of people would move to virgin just because of th cheap texts tho. So they should make more money from calls and stuff. Also people will get more adidcted to texts as they will be able to send twice as much as they used to for the same price so the hope there would be that they send even more. But at the end of the say if they did that it would built them up a much bigger user base... Paulo > > > If Virgin charged 5p for every text to every network, they would make a > > > fortune [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > user base... > Paulo By that logic, O2 online PAYT with 300 inc Text a month should have the most users. As Genie / O2 online have discovered over the years, it doesn't matter how many inc text you give your customers, it doesn't buy market share. Steve Terry > By that logic, O2 online PAYT with 300 inc Text a month should have the most > users. > > As Genie / O2 online have discovered over the years, it doesn't matter how > many inc text you give your customers, it doesn't buy market share. They need to choose their price point carefully. 6p would make sense, it's twice as much as the current 3p on-net and half the price of most PAYG. People would be tempted to send two texts, long messages, or picture messages where one 10p one would have done before. They would also not be put off by having to top-up with a tenner every month. > By that logic, O2 online PAYT with 300 inc Text a month should have the most > users. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Steve Terry Alot of people at my college bug me for genie chips still. THE major problem with o2 online is that they had this great brand of genie and then hid it away from most people by calling it o2 online an not selling it at their O2 stores/carphone warehouse. Alot of people dont know that the chips are still being sold for £9.99 on the o2 website. Its most likely because o2 dont want a large market share of pay and go customers who are most younger people who most likely wont go onto contract for a long time. Paulo > > By that logic, O2 online PAYT with 300 inc Text a month should have > > the most users. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > away from most people by calling it o2 online an not selling it at their O2 > stores/carphone warehouse. I agree, they should of stayed with the Genie name, or as they felt it wasn't a name that was growing in presence, tried again with another name. > Alot of people dont know that the chips are still being sold for £9.99 > on the o2 website. 99p at: http://shop.o2.co.uk/o2offers/simonlydetails/consumer:O2:TALKALOT:SIM > It's most likely because o2 dont want a large market share of pay and go > customers who are most younger people who most likely wont go onto > contract for a long time. > Paulo Nope, it's more likely O2 management haven't a clue about marketing. The only UK network that has actively taken a stance against PAYT is T Mobile, the Krauts hate it, to them PAYT is only used by low ARPU, social lowlifes. Steve Terry > The only UK network that has actively taken a stance against PAYT is T Mobile, > the Krauts hate it, to them PAYT is only used by low ARPU, social lowlifes. I'm trying to think of a group of people you didn't offend in either the UK or Germany. :) >> The only UK network that has actively taken a stance against PAYT is T >> Mobile, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I'm trying to think of a group of people you didn't offend in either the > UK or Germany. :) Still, at least nobody on umtm thinks PAYT is only used by social lowlives. Oh no... ;-)  SignatureTony > > The only UK network that has actively taken a stance against PAYT is T Mobile, > > the Krauts hate it, to them PAYT is only used by low ARPU, social lowlifes. > > I'm trying to think of a group of people you didn't offend in either the > UK or Germany. :) Many 121 PAYT users were offended by the way T Mobile stole their PAYT standard tariff from them, so as to "encourage" them to migrate to contract. Steve Terry >The only UK network that has actively taken a stance against PAYT is T Mobile, >the Krauts hate it, to them PAYT is only used by low ARPU, social lowlifes. Do you have a problem with this? > Alot of people at my college bug me for genie chips still. THE major problem > with o2 online is that they had this great brand of genie and then hid it > away from most people by calling it o2 online an not selling it at their O2 > stores/carphone warehouse. AFAIK they do - at least the O2 store in Kensington was advertising 'Pay & Go SIMs with 300 free texts a month for £9.99' in their window... Tariq >> Alot of people at my college bug me for genie chips still. THE major >problem [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >AFAIK they do - at least the O2 store in Kensington was advertising 'Pay & >Go SIMs with 300 free texts a month for £9.99' in their window... yeah saw that as well in the o2 shop in swansea.. ---------------------------------------------------- reverse my email address, and remove the obvious spam traps to reach me by email. http://www.callthrough.tk/ = site not updated. |
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