The Meteor group text facility is terrible. You can only send 30 group texts a month (i.e. 1 text to group of 30 members, or 3 texts to a group of 10 members). On the O2 site, there was no distinction between group and individual texts in terms of your monthly limit. And once you used up your limit, you could send texts at the normal charge - with Meteor, you just can’t send web texts at all once you use up your limit.
I’ve tried getting around the limit on the number of monthly texts by setting up the 70 approx group names in my address book on Mymeteor.ie and selecting each name manually. However, on some occasions when I send a text to a large number of recipients, I get redirected to an error page ([broken link removed]) and prompted for an administrator login. So far, it seems like the texts have gone through, but it is hard to have any confidence in the system when these errors happen.
When I queried this with Meteor, I got the bizarre response of ‘It is possible to send a group of texts to 10 People only at one time’ - pity they don’t highlight this limitation on their website?
If this doesn't improve, I'll be switching back to O2 as soon as my contract period with Meteor expires.