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- Originally posted by melbear:
From the NZ herald article:
In the 1Cellnet world, calls can be made a couple of ways. A user can send a text message from their Vodafone mobile to the 1Cellnet gateway in Australia with the body of the text carrying a code representing a number the user has pre-programmed into their web-based 1Cellnet contact list
Guess you’ve really got to know who you are going to call regularly then…
Cheers
Melno you don’t . Obviously you have the regularly called numbers in your phone directory , but you can still call numbers that you don’t call often.
Yep I have read both those articles. Like it says in the NZ herald one
“To my mind a scam is a whole lot of words with nothing at the end of it,” said Wadsworth, who was able to demonstrate the calling service to the Herald and offered proof of the charging structure.” – is true to that. As i said in a previous post, its not a pyramid scheme for the fact there is a usable, real product on offer here, and you would definitely buy the product if there was no money to be made. They are making references to skybiz because it uses the same network structure – Binary – as skybiz did.(I was asked to join skybiz and didn’t because I could see the flaws in teh product they were offereing)The first article I have read and think its someone trying to cause shit. A company that will be floating on the nasdac, and gets legal approval to operate in countries cannot be illegal. I just laugh at the people who think its a scam now. They will be kicking themselves in teh years to come.
Ye I joined up at the pre launch phase as I could see the potential in it. Initially the calls were only getting through about 60% of the time as the whole world was using the ONE platform in sydney. Now that there are 8 platforms around the world calls go through 99% of the time.
Ye I know what you mean about the Pc to Phone balance, I’ve used it a couple of times from a net cafe that has the headphones as it works out cheaper than using the phone to phone balance – so it is handy in that respect. You have to look at it in the big picture, I don’t mind paying that $30 for the phone to phone balance once off if its going to save me $1600 over 5 months on my total phone bill.
Not at all! I have to wait probably an extra 10 seconds to make the call , but once you get used to it , its no problems at all. If you have one of the newer phones there are 2 ways you can quickly make the call. 1) you can insert a number from your phone book into a text message , so all you need to do is either start saving your numbers with the +61 at the start, or if its in the familiar format of 0404123456 , all you have to do is insert the number , delete the 0 and add 61. 2) there is an interface you can download onto your phone if you have a GPRS phone, which accesses your online phone book with all your stored numbers – that costs roughly 1 – 2 cents to initiate the call.
What it comes down to is – the small change in habit of making a call is saving me close to $400 a month on my bill, its well worth doing. Also the fact now I can make an overseas call from my mobile phone cheaper than it is for me to call within Australia.
If you want more info, or if you would like to test the system, I can actually register your number on my account and you can use it for a day or so to see how you like it. You are able to register unlimited numbers within Australia to use the one account + one overseas number. Some families I have in my downline are all using the one account , so kids who have prepaid can SMS the command to call either mum or dad and it automatically rings mum or dad. Really quite handy for parents that don’t want their kids chewing up prepaid credit. email me [email protected] and I can sort it out for you.
Hi there! I thought I would shed some light on some issues and queries bought up here.
First off, you don’t have to ditch your provider in order to take advantage of 1cellnets cheaper rates. You still need them in order to initiate the call – via sms. The company is running on a licence through Unified Interactive in QLD , the same company that came up with the technology in order to vote on Big Brother. ie when you voted someone via sms to be evicted , you recieved an sms back to confirm it had gone through, here instead you sms a command plus the number you want to call, and you get a call back, wait about 5 seconds and then you will be connected to your destination that you wanted to call – which can be anywhere in the world.
Second – I don’t belive this to be a pyramid scheme or scam. For 2 reasons 1) For something not to be a pyramid scheme there has to be a real consumable product , in this case , cheap mobile calls 2) for the product to be deemed real and consumable , it must satisfy the question “would you buy the product if there was no money to be made” . Furthermore I don’t belive this to be a scam – its cheap mobile calls , I have physically seen my commissions in my bank account – wheres the scam?
Ill give you an idea of how much I have saved on my mobile bill with figures and usage on how I used to spend previously and how I now spend.
on a plan –
I was spending roughly $450 – $500 a month allocated to the following: –
1) Id send about 420 sms’s a month – 420 x 0.25 = $105 on sms alone
2) Id spend a further $350 approx on calls @ 40c a minute PLUS flagfall (sometimes the calls would only last a minute or so)NOW on 1cellnet tihs is what i do
I have since changed from my vodafone plan to vodafone prepaid (all my downline have done the same and as such we can contact each other for free using voda to voda free time). For Every $100 recharge on vodafone prepaid you get 360 FREE SMS PLUS the $100 recharge PLUS a certain amount of hours free time to vodafone fones. YES you do have 2 months to use your credit otherwise its forfeited if youdotn recharge – you CAN recharge iwth just $30 and you still get to keep your credit – however I haven’t had to as I hvae been using roughly $100 every 1 month. so NOW lets look at the figures
For $100 recharge I get my 360 free sms + 400 (4 sms for every $1) which makes a total of 760 SMS messages I can use over 2 months.
I still send my 420 or so sms and I make my calls using 1cellnet via the text system or online on the interface. My flagfall is no longer there ( you can call the 25c sms fee flag fall if you like) I havent had to recharge my 1cellnet account with any of my own cash – i have recharged it from my bonus account, and even then I have spent roughly $250 AU dollars in the last 4 months on calls.
So I have gone from spending $450 – $500 a month down to $100 every month or so , plus the $250 in calls since I have joined….
Since January (when I joined 1cellnet) I have spent a total of $250 + $500 (on vodafone prepaid) = a total of $750 over 5 months as opposed to $400 a month = $2000 over 5 months a total saving of $1600….
As well as being able to keep in touch with friends (and my parents) overseas.
ADD to that I have made a small income on the side from sharing my savings with my friends – no scam here I can see.
If anyone is after more information, please check out my website http://www.1cellnet.com/karlsav , I am based in Perth Western Australia.
