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catherinehkga
14-10-2003, 17:37
I have a meeting with my Vodafone business manager tomorrow morning. Does anyone have anything they won’t me to say or any questions? I can’t promise but I will try and get answers.
:shades:
Lower your rates please :) and can they advertise this forum on their next advert with David Beckham browsing the Nokia section.
catherinehkga
21-10-2003, 11:07
It wasn’t a particularly good meeting, :( but then I didn’t it expect it to be. Our account manager isn’t very passionate about mobile phones. I think we got what we wanted in the long run. She couldn't suggest any better tariffs though.
The only problem we now have is deciding which make and model phone to upgrade to. The whole fleet has Nokia 6310i with car kits. From what I understand Nokia aren’t continuing on with the same line in mobiles. That means I have to decide where to go and change over all the car kit. I’m glad I’m not paying. I think it will be in the region of 40 contracts. Ouch!
Our account manager is subjecting Siemens but I’m not convinced. :ugh: I think it will probably still be a Nokia as this what our sales manager are used to. They are not very gadget friendly.
Daedalus
21-10-2003, 17:43
i'd say that'd be your best bet. The majority of new Nokias have the same connecters (3100, 5100, 6100, 6610, 6800, 7210, 7250/7250i) so you can connect most of them to a similar car kit. Plus they are pretty easy to use and get on with, especially if your not gadget friendly like you said.
Siemens tend to change their connecters like they change their socks and car kits and much less interchangeable as they have several phones that are very different shapes (M55 vs. SL55? no resembalence what so ever).
However, at The Link at the moment, we have a deal going on with Halfords. For £99.99 they provide a fully wired car kit with cradle to hold the phone. However, it's a Universal system, so if you get a new phone or someone with another phone gets in the car, they just put their phone in the dash-mounted holder and plug a £19.99 adapter into their phone and the little box where all the connecters for the system are. Thus making it totaly future proof for any new phones the company gets or even allowing each employee to have a different phone if they wanted to. Not bad really :)
catherinehkga
22-10-2003, 10:29
That was were my line of though was going. I’m not the one is afraid of gadgets but most sales team don’t understand predicted text. Oh well. :rolleyes:
Do you know of anywhere were the car kit deal is advertise on-line. I had thought that the new Nokia car kit now came with separate interchangeable cradles, but Vodafone Customer Service (the bane of my life) said it only applied to some makes, not all.
catherinehkga
22-10-2003, 12:58
I couldn't find The Link web site but have found the Halfords site.
http://www.halfords.com/opd_product_details.asp?id=18454
It doesn’t say anything about adapters.
Daedalus
22-10-2003, 17:06
not sure to be honest, i don't even know that much about the in store deals (my forte is the phones, not car kits :rolleyes: )
but yes, i think thats the one. the adapters are availible in store both at The Link and they should be at Halfords too.
catherinehkga
22-10-2003, 17:24
It’s probably a wise idea to say away from car kits. They cause me no end of problem. :pissed: The thing is with this new law that will come into place in December, everyone wants it fitted yesterday. It just doesn’t work that way.
I have a couple of friendly Surrey/London engineers if anyone needs one.:shades:
catherinehkga
10-12-2003, 16:22
Did you know that the average time it takes to get though to the Vodafone Install team is an hour. This is before you talk to the receptionist. :pissed: :pissed: :pissed: :pissed:
If anyone feels like wasting there time please could you organise 2 installations and a repair. :goofy:
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