Genie Mobile

...has ever been said about genie mobile a partner operator in the bt operation. I first heard of genie mobile at one of my local free uk sites where it said you can pick up a sim card for a mere £1, very reasonable but I don't own a credit card so it was no good. I was again looking round my free sites where I came across a link that said genie sim cards are absolutely free I was shocked I couldn’t believe they would give away sims for free, ...
...is also very good on genie and I will tell you about it Text Messages - Free Wap Access - Free Peak Phone Call P/M - 30p Off Peak P/M - 10p Weekends - 5p Calls To Bt Cellnet/Genie Users - 25p (Peak) 10p (Off Peak) Calls To None Bt Cellnet/Genie Users - 50p (Peak) 35p (Off Peak) Voicemail Retrieval - 10p (peak) 5p (off peak) Peak Rate Hours - 7:00am - 19:00pm Off peak Hours - 19:00pm - 7:00am This makes genie one of the best tariffs around ...

Sheringham_19 16.08.2001 · Read full review
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...and find an alternative. Genie Mobile had the answer! They offer a few tariffs using the BT network, and I found the ideal one for me. I wanted to keep my existing WAP enabled mobile and just connect to a new tariff so I opted for the Off-Peak SIM card pay monthly tariff. For a monthly subscription of £10, I get 50 free off-peak minutes of calls each and EVERY day, 600 free text messages a month (10p each once you use up your free ones), completely ...
...for calls made to other Genie or BT mobile phones (and you can use your free minutes too!). Calls to other mobile networks cost 50p/min peak and 35p/min off-peak. Peak time is from 8am to 7pm Monday to Friday, off-peak is all other times, including weekends and Bank Holidays. Ordering the SIM card was a piece of cake using the website order service and completely free of charge, alternatively you can call Genie on their freefone number to place your ...

Squiggles 02.10.2001 · Read full review
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WHO ARE GENIE? Genie Mobile is the web-based division of BTCellnet, or now, O2. The company, Genie, begun with a range of internet services, such as being the first site to offer free texts (SMS) from the internet. It also offered free SMS alerts of email, cheap home internet access and mobile 'Alerts' (offering news, horoscopes, charts etc. via text message for free). Its aim from the start was to combine the technology of the mobile and the internet. ...
...I CARE ABOUT THIS? Genie Mobile are different to other mobile providers. Their mobiles can only be bought through their website, and there are only a limited range available. Technical support is through the internet, or very expensive premium rate numbers and there are only three tariffs available, which will be mentioned later. However, by cutting costs they are able to offer excellent deals- almost unlimited free text messages and WAP, and, if ...

father_jack 16.04.2002 · Read full review
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...Calls/Min - 5p Calls To Genie And BT Cellnet Phones - 25p peak/10p off-peak/min Calls To Non Genie/BT Cellnet Mobiles - 50p peak/35p off-peak/min Voicemail retrieval - 30p peak/10p off peak/5p weekends Overall conclusion:- I've only experienced one problem since I've had the sim. Possibly network problems. I could not check my balance, phone anyone or send a message. This was at about midnight. You're probably asking why I would want to ring ...
...calls to non BT or Genie mobiles I have no problem with the sim. This is the only niggling factor I have with BT/Genie! Pricey calls to other networks! Arrrgh! Still Vodafone is good for cheap calls... The sim has given me unlimited text messages YIPPEE! Until I get a BT wap capable phone we shall see if it is any cop on the wap side. Anyway thanks for reading! Jess ...

Babytigerjess 15.08.2001 · Read full review
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Genie has now been taken over by O2. However they still have a special range of "genie" packages vailable online which offer much more than a standard PAYG package. If you log onto the 02 website you can purchase o2 paygo and contract options whcih offer high numbers of free texts messages which were GENIE's speciality:- Over the last few months I've tended to send an increasing number of text messages through the day. I wanted to buy a PAY AS ...
...of free texts. I used this card in my old phone. I choose O2 online because of the large number of free texts (300). You need to top up with £10.00 each month to enable you to have these free texts. If you top up during the month you receive a text message a few days before your monthly date to tell you that you will receive another 300 texts from that date. As well as that I can use the £10.00 that I top up with each month to make calls. Call cost ...

helen201274 07.05.2003 · Read full review
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...Free! _______________________________ GENIE is the relatively new network that offers you free text messaging and WAP. The service is powered by BT Cellnet, and is available as prepay or pay monthly. Once you have signed up with Genie you can access your account details among other things online. You can also keep your old mobile number if you want, but they do supply you with a new one. (Obviously!) You can purchase a Genie SIM card on the website, ...
...at the present day. Previously Genie were running offers where the SIM cards were free. When you hear SMS and WAP free, you immediately think that's a great deal, but then you think, what's the catch. Well with Genie, all you have to do is top up your phone every 30 days, with a ten pound voucher. If you have any spare money from the previous month then it will be carried over. However, if you only bought the SIM card from Genie, (But not the phone) ...

happyhopwood 23.11.2001 · Read full review
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Genie is the relatively new service offering free text messages and free WAP use. Before I start mummbling on about it all firstly try out their website: www.genie.co.uk It's true, you can really send an unlimited amout of messages for FREE. For those text addicts out there this has to be the best deal around. Up until the 27 August 2001, you can phone up (0800 092 5599), or order off the net, a free SIM card which offers all of genie's services. ...
...have only had my new genie SIM card a few days now but the ability to send messages for free is brilliant. The cheapest messages I've found elsewhere were 2p, but that had to be on the same network (One 2 One), otherwise it was Orange Pay as you go. This involved you buying a £50 voucher though every time. For parents who are paying the bills for their children, and are constantly telling them to stop texting, this could be you're life saver. Certainly ...

TheBroomCupboard 04.09.2001 · Read full review
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Genie are the revolutionary new mobile phone service provider who offer free text messaging and WAP. I first heard about them in a newsgroup where everyone was going crazy because they were offering SIM cards for only £1. Then suddenly they changed the price to £5 and most people that hadn't got a SIM card before decided to get one now. But me, little boring me, didn't want to join in with all that rubbish and pay for something that I might not use ...
...my online research at the genie site the tariff is as follows(per minute): Standard Peak calls: 30p Standard Off-Peak: 10p Standard Weekends: 5p Peak Calls To Other Mobiles:50p O/P Calls To Other MObiles: 35p Peak Calls To Cellnet/Genie:25p O/P Calls To Cellnet/Genie: 10p SMS And WAP Free! I don't use my phone that much at the moment so paying £10 a month doesn't seem that good a deal to get free text messaging and WAP(which I incidentally can't ...

ferrous 01.09.2001 · Read full review
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...was my first wish and Genie failed to make it come true. When I ordered the phone, the salesman which sold it to me told me that I would receive confirmation via email within 24 hours. Well I waited three days and still nothing arrived, so I sent a polite email requesting what exactly had gone wrong. I waited another two days as it is supposed to take just 24 hours to respond. I heard nothing, again I emailed, and waited. Then again I sent a more ...
...nine emails to Genie customer care and I only received two replies, both of which were of no help to me and just told me to fax my details through. Wish Two: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Customer Care please respond to my plea! Before I received these emails, as we were getting no response, we to phone the customer care number we had been given when we ordered the phone. That just turned ut to be a 50p a minute chat room to talk to other Genie users! Not ...

Hybrid 27.07.2001 · Read full review
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Genie was founded in 2000 and it’s the Internet extension of BT and their BT Cellnet mobile service. It markets itself as the UK’s leading Mobile Internet provider and is rapidly becoming a leading competitor in the network provider fight. Most of us have heard of Genie but know little about their ever-growing service, indeed I was a Genie virgin myself until I decided to see what all these advertising campaigns were all about and I was ...
...two divisions to Genie: - Genie and Genie Mobile. First let’s take a brief look at Genie (as this is the mobile area so I feel GM should feature rather more heavily in the op!). Ok, so we have a site, quite a nice site www.genie.co.uk popular all round as it lets you send unlimited free SMS from PC to mobile (unfortunately there’s no reply service and when you receive a message it just says “from:” followed by the mobile number, ...

wease 04.01.2002 · Read full review
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I think that this is one great network! It is really great value and really worth the mere £10 a month that I pay. I have been impressed every month repetitively and I will not be leaving it any time soon. I used to be connected to BT Cellnet Pay as You Go and I was ‘kind of’ happy with the service but, I would spend a fortune each month to pay for it. Then one day when I was surfing the web I came across Genie. “WOW!” was ...
...cool ideas, all the news, entertainment and sport. I really enjoyed just surfing around looking at all the stuff that there was to do. I then found out that they had a mobile network (they were my WAP provider – I didn’t know this till later) and I enquired. The deal was a free Sim Card (if you wanted to keep your handset), a free mobile, or you got knocked off prices to their other mobiles. I really liked the handset I had – its ...

craigy2040 13.05.2002 · Read full review
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Genie Mobile. At first these seemed to me, the words I had been waiting to hear since I first "got myself connected". It seemed, in fact almost naughty, the prospect of txting as much as I wanted, for free, provided I topped up £10 a month. So off I went to www.genie.co.uk/mobile and clicked on the link to buy a sim card. The first problem was that I needed a credit card to pay, there was no other payment option such as splash plastic(www.splashplastic.com) ...
...none of the information at Genie informs you is that the sim cards can only be used in BT Cellnet or Genie mobile handsets. The online help service offered by genie, I found to be completely useless, the link (www.genie.co.uk/mobile/help) hardley ever seemed to work, and when it did it didnt answer my questions as to why my mobile wouldnt work. And the customer care line (08705214000) wasnt much help either. In all eventuality I was forced to pay ...

bubblesandstars 27.09.2001 · Read full review
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...that was until i found Genie - 'Unlimited free text messages' their advertising stickers, plastered all over my university library toilet doors, hailed… so I joined up. This was a relatively painful affair, phoning up their sales line while they took down my particulars (bank details, credit card numbers etc) they supply you with a verification code which you can put into their website to track where your phone is. The phone arrived within ...
...The good side of genie is that you do get 600 free text messages a month, which if you use your full allocation means you save the equivalent of £60. You can also view unbilled calls and texts (up to one day before you made them). This is especially good if you are trying to only spend a certain amount as you can regulate your usage, ie if you are overspending you know to cut down. It also helps you not go over your 600 free text allowance as you ...

cfc21 30.07.2002 (24.08.2002) · Read full review
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...having this sim pack with genie and I can just insert the sim into the phone I have use it and then change it back. This is also a bit of a pain having to swap sims over and I have lost a few from doing this but I cannot find a good handset cheap enough at the moment so I am sticking to the one. On the pre pay tariff calls even seem to be quite cheap. Whenever you make a call or send a text message your balance comes upo on the screen and it is ...
...send it free. Genie runs off the BT Cellnet network and there is nearly always good coverage on this network. They also offer you many services like traffic watch, 1471, 901 voice mail retreival, customer care, directory enquiries and international directory enquiries, dictation line, talking pages, RAC breakdown and AA breakdown. What is also stored on your sim is the top up line, activate and deactivate voice mail so you don't have to remember ...

coolchanty 12.03.2002 · Read full review
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...during the day with this Genie tariff. Because Genie is run by BT Cellnet, you get the same coverage as BT Cellnet, which meant that I was now able to use my phone when I went to visit my parents up in Scotland! I haven't had any problems with the coverage, other than in very remote/hilly locations, where I had problems with Orange too - the geographys fault not the company! My monthly bills have fallen dramatically now that I get free text messaging, ...
...I would recommend Genie for all young people who send text messages, why pay for them? I would never go back to paying for text, and now save myself at least £50 a month on my old bills, and would save even more because I now send more. ...

trinity97 17.07.2001 · Read full review
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