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#1567 19-May-2004 10:09

Telecom have announced today that as of 1st June there will be a new Boost mobile offer for heavy texters. $10 for 1000 text a month to 025/027 and 0.02c a text to 025/027 after 1000. All text to any other network (international and voda/telstra) is 0.20c.
The $1 text deal is also limited to 25 a day.

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#5847 19-May-2004 11:41

Here are the details from the horses mouth as it were.
http://www.boostmobile.co.nz/boost/content/0,5266,204042-203035,00.html

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#5862 19-May-2004 18:05

Is this boost only and not Telecom Mobile? All the reports I heard on the radio today just referred to Telecom increasing their cap from 500 to 1000 per month.

It could be the 'boost' boost needs to rejuvinate a dead brand.

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#5864 19-May-2004 18:43

It is for Boost only.
The cap on telecom mobiles will remain at 500

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#5865 19-May-2004 18:50

Telecom aren't referring to the 1000 cap as being 025/027 only in any of their PR stuff today, even TV3 just said a '1000 msg cap'. They said after that msgs to 025/027 were 2c each also stuffed up and the gfx said msgs to other networks were 10c but Carol said 20c.

I guess it's not in Telecom's interest to make the fine print clear, they'll wait for everybody to switch and start getting all those 20c SMS's from ppl before they realise.

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#5925 20-May-2004 18:26

Guess the media dont always get it right aye. They enjoy enflaming the issues too. On the Boost site it does state that it is only for text to 025/027. The link is in my post above

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#6342 6-Jun-2004 09:25

I changed my Plan to the new one on the Boostmobile Web Site
also got $10 free Credit for doing so
this was on the normal CDMA after Hours Prepaid plan previously.

Can anyone tell me if the messages used to start with ( to destroy your initial $10 for the month )
be made up of all SMS or do they need to be to NZ only ??

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#6345 6-Jun-2004 12:26

Only SMS to 027 counts. You should really say "consume" or "use".

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#6449 9-Jun-2004 20:54

SMS to both 025 and 027 counts towards the 1000 SMS cap on Boost Monsta Txt. I'm assuming the count will be reset once you transfer to Boost - hence the $10 credit.

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#6454 9-Jun-2004 21:25

Thanks for that
Its not likely I'm even going to get up to the $10.00 as most of my contacts
are overseas or on Vodafone .

I tried to change the 025 to the $1.00 TEXT plan . After 5 days nothing has happened
to mine or a friends number ( no confirmation text like 027 )

Steve