Mobile Data costs

jimsmith102

Hi,

Can anyone tell me the best value mobile data packets for use with a mobile phone e.g. smartphone

I have found it very hard to get this information from the operator websites. 3 charge £2/mb. imagine paying those prices for your PC internet bill....

Thanks

rockykabir

It depends really...

For PAYG, you have very limited options. Orange provide the best PAYG deal with 4MB costing £4 on their World Access Extra. O2 are good - but you are limited to use their pages (i.e. not the web or checking POP3 email accounts) unless you use a proxy which is quite complicated.

For Pay monthly, O2 are very good for high bandwidth. But again, you have this problem that you can only use their sites . T-Mobile used to offer a great deal (until yesterday) with Web N' Walk (18) where you used to get 12 months 1/2 price and then 6 months full price (followed by 1/2 price for life). T-Mobile's Flext tariffs are quite good as you can add decently priced GPRS bundles - currently its 25% off the tariffs (for life) without any cashback hassles

BTW: Take note that the bandwidth costs on GPRS is a lot less if you are careful (i.e. only download first 3KB when checking email, don't display images etc..). 20MB can actually last you quite a bit.

redux

rockykabir wrote:

O2 ... But again, you have this problem that you can only use their sites

Odd - I've looked at half a dozen other sites on O2 (but not studied the tariff yet, as it's a so-called welcome allowance)

rockykabir

Whoops...made a mistake in my post.

You can access other pages...but you won't be able to check POP3 accounts or use MSN Messenger on the PAYG O2 service.

paddytt

Orange also do a £10 per month High Speed Data tariff, and you can add 4mb of GPRS for £4 and 10mb for I think £8.

The High Speed Tariff allows you to dial up at 28.8kbs, useful for email on PDA's and when GPRS is intermittent.

You should also try https://www.skweezer.net (on any platform) to reduce your GPRS costs - its an online "compression" service (free) work like Onspeed except it's not as "seamless". Great for PDA's though.

regards

TT

redux

Onspeed said they will launch a mobile version soon (no hint of cost)

Anon

o2 pay monthly offers good GPRS and a number of users are reporting completely free/unmeasured use (for how long/why etc nobody knows!). Having checked my use for the past 6 weeks, it still shows as 0KB despite almost constant use (though I will be sunk if they decide to send a retrospective bill!).

o2 lets you access any sites that you wish.

Anon

FREELANCE

rockykabir wrote:

Whoops...made a mistake in my post.

You can access other pages...but you won't be able to check POP3 accounts or use MSN Messenger on the PAYG O2 service.

who said you cant use msn messenger? as far as i know theres applications that allow you to use messenger?

Woby_Tide

Anon wrote:

o2 pay monthly offers good GPRS and a number of users are reporting completely free/unmeasured use (for how long/why etc nobody knows!). Having checked my use for the past 6 weeks, it still shows as 0KB despite almost constant use (though I will be sunk if they decide to send a retrospective bill!).

o2 lets you access any sites that you wish.

Anon

I can't rememebr which topic but I'm sure I read one the other day where someone mentioned they were getting retropsective GPRS charges backdated to November all of a sudden(possibly on one of the O2 overcharging topics)

rockykabir

Apparently T-Mobile are releasing an unlimited data bundle (as they do in the US) for £7.50 monthly in April.

This is according to some posters from various forums with supposed inside information...

I'll take it with a pinch of salt but if its true then this will undoubtedly be the most economical option

marlowtech

Not sure if this helps, but I bought an orange sim specifically for this feature for days that I am out. £1 until midnight gets you unlimited gprs. I always worry about using gprs on contract because it can get extremely pricey...

hope this helps..