This Genie is FREE

Advantages: Up to 600 Free texts per month and Free Wap
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 over a year as my first phone was a BT Cellnet one. So I had used the site often enough in the past to send free texts and obtain Genie alerts as text messages to my phone. As this is not an opinion on the Genie site I won?t go into details...

Scotslady 25.11.2001 (29.11.2001) · Read review
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Prepay Genie Sim Card

Advantages: Unlimited text and wap!
Disadvantages: Sometimes fails to work! Also, 50p to other networks!! ARRGH!

...Unlimited text messages and unlimited wap galore! The sim card only costing a mere £1. You could either keep your existing mobile, pay monthly or pay as you go. The prepay offer does not include any free minutes like the pay monthly. Fantastic offer! So I leaped at this brill opportunity and logged onto their site at 'www.genie.co.uk/shop.' A-ha! I found the prepay sim and put it into my basket and ordered it. I got an e-mail thanking me for my order. Then the following day I got an e-mail stating that my payment from my debit card was being declined by my bank. They suggested I made and input error when I placed my order but I'm sure I didn't because I sent off for two Sim cards on the same day but on separate order forms. Both of my orders were declined. This offer was going to close quite soon so I placed an order by ringing...

Babytigerjess 15.08.2001 · Read review
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Genie

Advantages: Cheap!
Disadvantages: Advertised free messages when you have to pay a couple of quid

...Not so bad! I ordered a Genie sim card off peak 50 from their website to take advantage of their 50 off peak calls free each day and their free unlimited text messages!! I ordered it back at the end of February and there was a problem with the delivery "It got stuck in their service" and didn't receive my order for another 2 weeks. The network BT Genie, which runs on the same network as BT Cellnet, has been very reliable I have never lost a signal no matter where I have been with it, any way Free text messages?? I have not had my phone bill in yet but I have had 3 friends that have the same sim card as me and they have to pay an SMS (MO) CHARGE, what's this for I thought it was free, mind you it is not that much about a couple of quid or so but they advertise it as free. The good thing about the service is that you can check your...

rs2k 20.03.2001 · Read review
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Easy Genie

Advantages: easy to use, fun
Disadvantages: can be really slowwwwwwwwwwww!

...Its fun its free- its pure Genie! Welcome to Genie! Genie is one of the most useful, but also the most frustrating, websites around. I have been a faithful Genie user for a couple of years now. My e-mail address is with them, I constantly use their WAP service on my mobile. I've even ordered a mobile phone from them in the past. So why did I choose Genie? Initially I was made aware of this website by a friend, as most recommendations these days appear to come from. Having never had an e-mail address before, it was about time I got up to date with the times, therefore Genie was my choice. Powered by BT Cellnet, and as a BT Cellnet customer I decided to give it a go. The first noticeable thing was the ease of registration. Very, very straightforward and easy to complete. Upon completing this an SMS message was sent to my mobile...

paulc20001 22.09.2001 · Read review
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Genie Mobile

Advantages: free sms/wap
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 call quality. I have been with BT cellnet for 2 years now and have always been very happy with them. The free WAP calls is also good, WAP is very useful for checking up on news headlines and emails whilst on the move ! The phone i got was a Siemens C35...

smoran 11.01.2001 · Read review
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Genie-Us Mobile Is Right For You

Advantages: Free Sim, Free Text, Free Wap Brilliant!
Disadvantages: Have To Top Up Every 30 Days

...many people would have heard a lot about the current mobile operators available mainly them being orange, one2one, vodafone and btcellnet but nothing 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, but its absolutely true. The sim cards are free not only that but the text messages are free subject to you only sending 600 or less a month, also another great thing about it is if your phone is wap enabled that is also free. What’s...

Sheringham_19 16.08.2001 · Read review
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  Genie-The Word FREE Comes To Mind

Advantages: Free text messaging, cheap
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, which was often not used in favour of the FREE SMS services such as Lycos on the web, as it does add up and get very expensive! The genie website is extremely easy to use, has bright colours alerting you to the links which are important...

danradders 28.02.2001 · Read review
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Genie show Orange how not to take the pith...

Advantages: 50 free minutes of off-peak calls EVERY day, 600 free text messages per month, free WAP
Disadvantages: None

...I’ve been a subscriber to Orange’s Everyday 50 service for the past year, primarily because the tariff offered 50 free minutes of off-peak calls each and every day. Great, but costing 50p a day on contract (approx. £15 per month) and just too many dropped calls, and non-existent signal meant I was not benefiting at all and paying for a service that just wasn’t up to what it promised. So when my minimum 12 month contract expired, I was keen to leave Orange 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...

Squiggles 02.10.2001 · Read review
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HMMMM - Genie - YES

Advantages: Competitive prices, excellent coverage, helpful care line
Disadvantages: not alot

...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 my first impression. They had a great homepage, full of 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...

craigy2040 13.05.2002 · Read review
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Genie Mobile,MagicLamp,or Rubbbish

Advantages: Cheap, good range of services
Disadvantages: Poor customer support

...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. It still offers the services listed, however, for over a year now it's also offered a virtual mobile network (Virgin is a virtual network on T-Mobile, for example). HANG ON, WHY DO 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...

father_jack 16.04.2002 · Read review
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