Vodafone PAYT Outage

Hi Cellsite fans.

Our lovely friends at Vodafone have suggested that we pass on the following info to you.

Just to let you know that there is a planned outage of our Pay as You Talk (PAYT) System.

The outage is scheduled in order to enhance our customer management systems and enhance our customer experience. Below is a list of FAQs that will give you any details you may need during this time.

When will the outage be?
The outage is scheduled to take place on Saturday 8th November at 19:00 and will last until Sunday 9th November at 13:00.

Why are we doing this?
We are preparing for the switch from prepay system to one single system, this will allow Vodafone to manage both prepay and post-pay customers in a single system.

How will this affect our customers?
During this period, there will be a limited range of services available to Prepay customers. (Postpay customers are not affected by this outage).

How can I Top Up my Prepay Credit?
You will still be able to register a new payment method, however, customers will need to top up via the following methods;

* By automated Top Up using an existing credit or debit card
* By Voucher / existing eSwipe card
* Via a participating ATM

How can I bar my Lost or Stolen phone?
We are still able to bar your phone if lost or stolen during this outage period.

Why can’t I access My Vodafone?
The outage will prevent our customers from logging on or registering with My Vodafone services

Who will the outage affect?
The outage will affect all Call Centre, Online Support and our Retail Stores.

Thank you all for your patience whilst we update our systems.

Administrator
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http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/index.php?act=announce&f=16&id=21

…and I bet you were sitting there wondering if we were still alive!

(We are, we’ve had some technical issues which we’ll be writing about soon).

Important Message

Hello, we’re no longer updating this site but we’ve left it here.

Hi, we’re slowly getting our enthusiam back for this site.

Any ideas on what you’d like?

Just so you know.

Calling The Old Locust Swarm

We’re you a member of Locust back in the earlier part of this decade?

You remember, Locust, the SMS Community that we all loved dearly and that Orange killed?

There’s now a dedicated group on Facebook, especially for the old Locust Community.

Come along and join us, and help reunite the swarm.

Old Phone Tariffs

We were just having a pootle around Google, and came across this website giving a list of some of the old tariffs on Cellnet, Vodafone and the other non-favourite networks.

Cop a load of this (and you think you’re overcharged now!!!???)

Occasional Caller

Connection £21.27
Monthly Line Rental £12.76
Peak Calls 42.55p
Off-Peak Calls 17p

Frequent Caller

Connection £50.00
Monthly Line Rental £25.00
Peak Calls 25p
Off-Peak Calls 10p

Frequent Caller Plus

Connection £50.00
Monthly Line Rental £25.00
Peak Calls 25p
Off-Peak Calls 10p

Regular Caller Plus

Connection £25.00
Monthly Line Rental £15.00
Peak Calls 35p
Off-Peak Calls 15p

Regular Caller Plus + Call Saver

Connection £25.00
Monthly Line Rental £17.50
Peak Calls 15p*/35p
Off-Peak Calls 15p

All call charges are per minute and prices exclude VAT. Calls are charged in 30 second increments after the first minute.
* Low cost call rate applies to up to four local area codes as displayed on suitable phone. (Available Autumn ‘95)

 Here’s the equivalent on Vodafone;

PersonalWorld

Connection Charge £30
Monthly Rental £15
Peak Calls 30p
Off Peak Calls 10p
Inclusive Airtime None

PersonalWorld + 50

Connection Charge £30
Monthly Rental £22.50
Peak Calls 30p
Off Peak Calls 10p
Inclusive Airtime 50 minutes

BusinessWorld

Connection Charge £60
Monthly Rental 25.00
Peak Calls 20p
Off Peak Calls 10p
Inclusive Airtime None
BusinessWorld + 100

Connection Charge £60
Monthly Rental 37.50
Peak Calls 20p
Off Peak Calls 10p
Inclusive Airtime 100 Minutes

All prices exclude VAT. Calls are charged by the second.

Cellnet Marketing Letter

Oh how funny.

This letter was found amongst some old bits and pieces, and made everybody in the office chuckle.

It’s an old letter from Cellnet from 1999.

Enjoy

Old KEB Peacehaven Customer Service Presentation

Here’s another little gem from the KEB era.

A presentation, compiled in Powerpoint, to keep customers happy whilst they were having to wait to be served.

It’s been converted into a little video now for you to enjoy, together with some tuneage from Ted Atking. The tuneage wasn’t on there originally as our MESH PC’s probably couldn’t've coped with sound!

done

Rufus Stone

As you’re heading along the A31 (either east or west) you can’t help but notice this beast sticking up from behind the trees.

We can’t remember exactly where it is, otherwise we would’ve included a little Google map for you.

Now we got bored today (12th July 09) and thought we’d try and find it on Google Maps.

We think it’s here.

View Larger Map

Apparently, according to our system, these were taken on 11th November 2001.

Court Farm Barn

We just found these pics on an old CD from 2002.

They were originally taken on 14th August 2002 and are of a new install at Court Farm Barn, complete with rigger!

SIM card reader bargain

Ok so this isn’t strictly a mast or network thing, but it’s geeky and mobile related so we thought we’d write about it anyway. In any case it was such a bargain, we’re still excited by it.

We bought a SIM card reader yesterday from a charity shop in Westbourne, just outside of Bournemouth Town Centre. It cost the grand sum of 99p. Yes that’s 99p.

When we got back to the office, we couldn’t wait to install it…… and it worked!

It doesn’t do much, but lets you have a look at stuff on your SIM card.

We did find though, that our PAYT Sim Card has 64 Preferred Networks on it compared to only 50 on our contract SIM.

The Box and bits

The Card Reader

Here are some screengrabs for you, just to tease and excite.

Picket Hill Revisited

Whilst down the South West on our mini break to Bournemouth, we revisited Picket Hill.

Planning Permission Notice

Here’s the full gallery of pics for you as well.

Planning Permission Notice