Reply With QuoteMaybe you should try moeee ? I am on a $12-13 plan and get $500 worth of calls @ 90 cents a minute, might be a lot cheaper for you.Originally Posted by moeee
Best4less, wow, the A and B buttons, havent thought about them in a long long time
I used a pay phone about 4 months ago when i lost my phone and was getting help from a friend at home on a pc trying to locate it (plan b on android worked great), before that I couldnt say when the last time was, probably in '99 before my first mobile.
Even if i lost my phone i couldnt really use a payphone, only numbers i can remember are the home lines of my parents and friends parents houses from the 90's, everything is in my sim/phone contacts now
I also remember having a casio databank watch in the 90's that held 50 phone numbers, that was handy.
Maybe you should try moeee ? I am on a $12-13 plan and get $500 worth of calls @ 90 cents a minute, might be a lot cheaper for you.
Best4less, wow, the A and B buttons, havent thought about them in a long long time
moeee (16-08-12)
I don't understand.
I checked the previous members suggestion and didn't understand.
Now I don't understand the $500 worth of calls thing.
Do you get $500 worth of calls FREE - and then start paying 90 cents per minute?
I pay $30 , which is credit , and I use it up by ringing and texting.
I lied - it wasn't a dollar a minute , it was 60 cents I think.
I got mixed up and thought there were 100 seconds in a minute - or something stoopid.
But I get 6 months to use up this $30 worth and if I recharge in time , any credit left carries over.
Sorry to off topic , but its sort of related.
moeee
Yes, we are getting a bit off topic but as you promised me that you are converting to christianity I'll help you out
This is the plan of my example
The cost of the plan is $11.99, there is a one off cost of $20 for the sim card.
You are given an allowance of :
$500 Talk and Text to Anyone
$500 Talk to Live Connected Customers
1.5 gig of Data
If you rang someone, you would be charged at the applicable rate per minute, which is all listed in the bottom of the link above. This comes out of your $500 Talk and Text allowance. If you rang me, it would come out of the $500 Talk to Live Connected allowance because we would both be with Live Connected.
Once you used up those allowances, you would then be charged those rates.
The data allowance of 1.5 gig should be pretty straight forward.
I find it pretty good value for money, I suppose it comes down to is it better value for money than what you currently have ? On face value it sounds like it might be ? Might be time to grab the calculator and see what you come up with.
You irascible ankle biters.
I well remember the WW2 years and later.
Tuppence for local calls and you could always call the exchange with a sob story to get connected for free while you were milking the coin box.
Some time on, cost threepence. Inflation.
Wasn't me ####stable!
Last edited by beer4life; 16-08-12 at 06:48 PM.
So your the one who put that accept The Christ flyer in my letterbox today!!!
another thing , never ever assume that anything is straightforward as I have no idea what that data thing is.
I don't do data.
I just ring people when I am dying.
I won't off topic no more , but thank you very much for story and now I understand.
I will do some research.
The data is internet data, I think you have a usb type wireless setup because you dont have a phone line you mentioned ?
With some phones, you can turn it in to a wifi hotspot. That means that you can connect wireless devices to it. For example, if you had a laptop that had wireless, the phone would appear as a wireless network and the laptop could connect to the internet. I have an old android phone here that does it if you are interested.
If you want to start up a thread in the mobile phone forum, we can have a chat about it there and work out if it is a better deal for you than what you. I suspect it might be, as its a hard deal to beat. Possibly the $2 day wireless internet deal that was mentioned by Oceanboy might be worth looking at as well. Any day you dont use it, you dont pay the $2.
About three weeks ago, I went to the shop on the bike and bought a few things. trouble was I forgot I was on the bike and bought too much. had to ring a mate to help bring it all home. cost me 50c.
"It's Life Jim" But Not As We Know It!
"We come in peace" shoot to kill.
moeee (16-08-12)
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Last edited by moeee; 16-08-12 at 08:18 PM. Reason: dickhead moeee
Godzilla (16-08-12)
I haven't used a pay phone for many years but yes I do remember them they are those boxes you find in a cubicle in public places. I remember they always have a chrome tube coming out of the side of them with bare wires hanging out of the end of it.,
ol' boy (16-08-12)
when an earth wire ran down the back of the phone box into the ground, you cut the wire and got free calls, also you checked where they had those red fones out the front of the shops, you looked for the plug and put a hand held phone in and you could ring anywhere, all old truckies knew that.
The last time I used a public phone it was with a season logger and a laptop.
Ah, nothing like a good bit of urban myth to spice up the day.when an earth wire ran down the back of the phone box into the ground
Unfortunately lots of earth wires were cut only to discover that this never worked.
The 50Hz metering pulses had nothing to do with the phone's earthing.
The old red phones also used 50Hz metering, though it was not uncommon for a lot of red phone owners to party line the pay phone with the shop phone. If they didn't have STD or international call barring then somebody might take advantage of them.
12KHz is now used for payphone signalling. It's been a while since I last looked at SS7.
I suspect they have made changes that don't allow the old tricks any more.
I'm still amused that very little people knew what blueboxing or phreaking was in this country. Blueboxing was not possible in Australia because of the different way our exchange trunks worked. It was however possible to dial out to the usa, blue box the call and then dial back into Australia.
Oh so many memories! This just reminded me of the auspac network and the old keylink message network. An early email network.
Yes I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
best4less (17-08-12)
ha...when an earth wire ran down the back of the phone box into the ground, you cut the wire and got free calls, also you checked where they had those red fones out the front of the shops, you looked for the plug and put a hand held phone in and you could ring anywhere, all old truckies knew that.
I used to work in a large government department in the early eighties.
The phones were only able to be used for internal calls, unless you were a boss.
I bought a casio 'phone dialler' watch.....
then i bought a modem for my work ibm pc...
then I got in lots of trouble, but nothing could be proven....
On topic, it would be at least 20 years....
Last edited by hoe; 17-08-12 at 10:20 AM.
That's the style of the last public phone I used, some time in the '80s.The booth remained in place (upgraded 'phone) until the past 6 months or so when Telstra removed it.
No, it was later than that. Would have been the phone at the shops across the road from the Mackay Base Hospital in '89.
Last edited by SpankedHam; 17-08-12 at 08:30 AM.
I bet the OP got the idea of this thread from the Maroon5 song
The only reason one would use a payphone is to hide that call from the missus.
Calls to girlfriends, brothels, etc. Right? lol
Dam.... Busted!!!!!
People already wonder why i have 3 mobile phones, its just a smoke screen for my Pay Phone use
But i think a bigger worry is... you listen to Maroon5 ?!?!?!?
Last edited by ol' boy; 17-08-12 at 09:49 AM.
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