2degrees announcements 2011-03-22

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#450953 22-Mar-2011 23:28

This is going to be tough for vodafone and telecom.

Shareholders expect companies to increase profit each year - the only company increasing profit now is 2degrees.

Guess that 2degrees customers are low value though - bluechip customers will stick to the large telcos.

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#450978 23-Mar-2011 06:52

wreck90: This is going to be tough for vodafone and telecom.

Shareholders expect companies to increase profit each year - the only company increasing profit now is 2degrees.

Guess that 2degrees customers are low value though - bluechip customers will stick to the large telcos.

2Degrees announced profit?

I must have missed that part.

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#450980 23-Mar-2011 06:54

alasta: After all 2degrees' billing system doesn't currently appear to be able to handle multiple connections on a single customer account.

Actually, we have in fact just launched multi-connect - single account, multiple connections. The advertising hasn't begun yet (which is probably why it wasn't announced yesterday), but the first couple of customers are in the process of signing up. I think it's going "above the line" as the marketers say in a couple of weeks.

EDIT - there's another thread somewhere where someone quotes a CSR on that too with some more details, but GZ is running slow for me this morning so I can't find it....

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#450993 23-Mar-2011 08:28

SaltyNZ: Actually, we have in fact just launched multi-connect - single account, multiple connections. The advertising hasn't begun yet (which is probably why it wasn't announced yesterday), but the first couple of customers are in the process of signing up. I think it's going "above the line" as the marketers say in a couple of weeks.

Excellent - thanks for that. Finally I will be able to get my iPad connection onto the same bill as my phone connection which will save a lot of hassle.

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#450994 23-Mar-2011 08:35

alasta:
SaltyNZ: Actually, we have in fact just launched multi-connect - single account, multiple connections. The advertising hasn't begun yet (which is probably why it wasn't announced yesterday), but the first couple of customers are in the process of signing up. I think it's going "above the line" as the marketers say in a couple of weeks.

Excellent - thanks for that. Finally I will be able to get my iPad connection onto the same bill as my phone connection which will save a lot of hassle.

Yep, give it a couple of weeks for us to get the worst kinks sorted out. :-)

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#450997 23-Mar-2011 08:40

I only hope that when 2D gets more successful that they don't sell out to the likes of Telstra..

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#451013 23-Mar-2011 09:15

old3eyes: I only hope that when 2D gets more successful that they don't sell out to the likes of Telstra..

Why not? Telstra could bring in extra cash and or even better deals!

Let's hope you guys also sort out you notification reminders at 2am...

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#451024 23-Mar-2011 09:28

SteveON:
Let's hope you guys also sort out you notification reminders at 2am...

We're working on rationalising the notifications at the moment. Sorry!

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#451026 23-Mar-2011 09:29

SaltyNZ:
alasta: After all 2degrees' billing system doesn't currently appear to be able to handle multiple connections on a single customer account.

Actually, we have in fact just launched multi-connect - single account, multiple connections. The advertising hasn't begun yet (which is probably why it wasn't announced yesterday), but the first couple of customers are in the process of signing up. I think it's going "above the line" as the marketers say in a couple of weeks.

EDIT - there's another thread somewhere where someone quotes a CSR on that too with some more details, but GZ is running slow for me this morning so I can't find it....

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#451043 23-Mar-2011 10:19

SaltyNZ:
alasta:
SaltyNZ: Actually, we have in fact just launched multi-connect - single account, multiple connections. The advertising hasn't begun yet (which is probably why it wasn't announced yesterday), but the first couple of customers are in the process of signing up. I think it's going "above the line" as the marketers say in a couple of weeks.

Excellent - thanks for that. Finally I will be able to get my iPad connection onto the same bill as my phone connection which will save a lot of hassle.

Yep, give it a couple of weeks for us to get the worst kinks sorted out. :-)

so does that mean two sims/numbers one account and both sims can share the credit on that account? if so, sweet, i never top up my ipad sim because well its a hassle, my iphone sim has lots of credit on it from the 2d store launch.

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#451054 23-Mar-2011 10:52

reven:
SaltyNZ:
alasta:
SaltyNZ: Actually, we have in fact just launched multi-connect - single account, multiple connections. The advertising hasn't begun yet (which is probably why it wasn't announced yesterday), but the first couple of customers are in the process of signing up. I think it's going "above the line" as the marketers say in a couple of weeks.

Excellent - thanks for that. Finally I will be able to get my iPad connection onto the same bill as my phone connection which will save a lot of hassle.

Yep, give it a couple of weeks for us to get the worst kinks sorted out. :-)

so does that mean two sims/numbers one account and both sims can share the credit on that account? if so, sweet, i never top up my ipad sim because well its a hassle, my iphone sim has lots of credit on it from the 2d store launch.

After this starts their numbers will drop 50k or so...

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#451068 23-Mar-2011 11:13

SaltyNZ:
SteveON:
Let's hope you guys also sort out you notification reminders at 2am...

We're working on rationalising the notifications at the moment. Sorry!

+1. Those 2am alerts, especially erroneous ones, were getting a bit tired!

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#451069 23-Mar-2011 11:15

SaltyNZ:
alasta: After all 2degrees' billing system doesn't currently appear to be able to handle multiple connections on a single customer account.

Actually, we have in fact just launched multi-connect - single account, multiple connections. The advertising hasn't begun yet (which is probably why it wasn't announced yesterday), but the first couple of customers are in the process of signing up. I think it's going "above the line" as the marketers say in a couple of weeks.

EDIT - there's another thread somewhere where someone quotes a CSR on that too with some more details, but GZ is running slow for me this morning so I can't find it....

That would be useful since I have 4 phones on 2D. But two are monthly and 2 a prepaid so I wonder how that's going to work?

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