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for Genie Internet

Rating Summary based on 26 reviews

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  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    danradders

    4 Stars Genie-The Word FREE Comes To Mind Diamond review 28/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Free text messaging, cheap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Non-standard calls are expensive

    After a mate bought a genie phone I was unsure about what it was all about so I thought it was worth a look into as my current BTCellnet tariff was costing me a fait bit each month. I am a member of genie online, basically there is FREE SMS there for me, and FREE text updates on football etc. so I knew the site well, and I knew what to expect. Clicking on the ‘Shop’ icon on the genie homepage I was sent straight to the shop homepage, and was pleasantly surprised that the words ‘text messaging’ were accompanied with the word ‘FREE’. Yes, FREE! On my BTCellnet tariff I paid 10p per text message ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    deechickster

    5 Stars Lifting the lid on teen texting. 22/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Can send as many as you want.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages No good for anonymous text messaging

    Genie Microsoft Internet, what an invention! Life before Genie text messaging was devoid of all meaning. If you have already sampled the delights of this site then you will know where I’m coming from. An Internet page that allows you to send unlimited text messages every day to anywhere in the world. What more could you want, as a poor student like myself where even a ten pence text message has been known to break the bank! The service is instant, reliable and totally free. (Excluding the Internet call charge.) To use these services all that is required is that you sign up as a member ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mrbibbly

    4 Stars Rub My Lamp 13/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Free WAP and SMS, cheap phones, good choice of tarriffs.Prompt (but strange) delivery.Good and prompt response from customer support via e-mail.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages EXTORTIONATE telephone customer support charges.Lack of choice with phones.

    ...then I'll charge you ridiculous customer support charges.This is perhaps the only downside i can see to an otherwise very competitive service provider.It piggybacks through the BT Cellnet network. They provide pre-pay,contract and SIM-only deals for their network.I plumped for pre-pay... I bought my Siemens C-35i from the Genie website (note to other AOL browsers,you can't view their shop with the standard browser,you have to boot up IE instead!).It seemed like the deal of a lifetime,£69.99 for the phone plus free WAP and SMS use. "Wow",I thought;"I gotta get myself a piece of that". I ... more
  • 40 of 41 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 3 Scotslady

    Member since 16/11/2000

    Reviews written: 11

    4 Stars This Genie is FREE 25/11/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Up to 600 Free texts per month and Free Wap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages For the cost? None!

    If you want to try out wap for FREE and at the same time get up to 600 FREE text messages a month, get yourself to www.genie.co.uk and order up a FREE Genie sim card from the mobile shop. Genie uses the BT Cellnet network so you also have access to their links for traffic delays etc. I get loads of junk email and about two weeks ago this offer was in one of them. I have been curious about wap but hadn’t really heard a lot to its advantage so I have delayed in getting a wap phone. However, I do send a lot of texts so I decided to check the offer out. I have been a member of the Genie site for ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    smoran

    5 Stars Genie Mobile 11/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages free sms/wap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages £10 minimum top up every 30 days but is understandable due to free sms/wap

    I fisrt heard about genie mobile in November and was disapointed to find out that they where only offering contract phones. By the first week of december 2000 they where offering a pay as you go variant with FREE SMS and WAP calls. FREE SMS and WAP calls is such an amazing deal to me as i use SMS a hell of a lot. All i have to do is put £10 of credit in every 30 days and then i can send as many text messages as i like as well as make £10 of calls. Any credit left over at the end of the 30 days is carried over which is also good. Genie uses the BT Cellnet network which has a good signal and ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    psipple

    5 Stars Genie Mobile new service 04/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Free SMS messages and free WAP access

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Minimum contract period of 1 year

    Internet Service Provider Genie have opened up their service to become mobile phone service provider. Launched in November 2000, they offer several packages, the most attractive of which offer: Free SMS text messaging Free WAP access 50 free off peak minutes per day Basic SIM-only packages are charged at £10 per month, or, for £20 per month, you can add a mobile phone (from a limited range) to your subscription. Genie Mobile uses the BT Cellnet network as it's backbone, and you can keep your existing mobile number if required. Mobile phone accounts can be managed online and the call rates ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    psipple

    5 Stars Unlimited SMS and WAP from your mobile 04/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Unlimited WAP access and SMS text messages

    Disadvantages Disadvantages 1 year mimimum term contact

    Genie are offering a £10 per month tariff that includes unlimited text messages from your mobile. Their Genie Mobile service launched in November 2000 offers several packages, the most attractive of which offers: Unlimited SMS text messaging 50 free off peak minutes per day Genie Mobile uses the BT Cellnet network as it's backbone, and you can keep your existing mobile number if required. Mobile phone accounts can be managed online and the call rates appear to be competitive. Other tariffs include free WAP mobiles, and unlimited WAP access Full details of these offers can be found at ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    yadditz

    5 Stars Genie Mobile Customer Care 21/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages less time consuming

    Disadvantages Disadvantages up to 24 hour delay

    One thing i noticed about this particular "Genie" was that there customer care is unique. For a start they dont have you hanging on the phone with some idiot on the other end trying to find the answers. Instead you send in an email or have on line chat. They take about a day to get back to you but the answer is always there. At least this way you can still carry on with other things and get your problem sorted. A rather different way of doing things, but very well done. ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    psipple

    4 Stars Unlimited WAP access and SMS messages from Genie 28/11/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Free WAP access and SMS text messages

    Disadvantages Disadvantages 1 year mimimum term contact

    Genie are now offering unlimited WAP access via their Genie Mobile service, launched in November 2000. They offer several packages, the most attractive of which offers: Unlimited Mobile Internet access at any time Free SMS text messaging 50 free off peak minutes per day The most useful tariff is priced at £20 per month, which includes a free WAP phone. They also offer a SIM-only service at £10 per month, but this doesn't appear to include WAP access. Genie Mobile uses the BT Cellnet network as it's backbone, and you can keep your existing mobile number if required. Mobile phone accounts can be ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    holland

    3 Stars virtual mobile godsend 13/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Certainly a trail blazer

    Disadvantages Disadvantages not always reliable

    Many would describe Genie as a virtual godsend. In a lot of ways I would not disagree. In internet terms Genie are a long time player and I fell must be praised for their innovation if nothing else. They were one of the first to offer free sms and their WAP service if fairly faultless. I also feel that the whole companies philosophy has had at least a mild effect on the mobile phone market. Anyone who ever used the old site may well agree the new look Genie is certainly tidier. But there still appears to be a few bugs that I at least have experienced since the start. That is logging on, I seem ... more
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