Free £10 Wi-fi PAYG credit

MSE_Martin

What is it?

You get £10 worth of Wi-fi use at 6,000 hotspots around the country. The wi-fi use is charged at 10p/min so this should give you 1 hour 40 minutes worth.

Its called the credEcard, but don't worry about the name or the fact it's a card, really it's just a piece of card with instructions on to give you a code, there's no actual technology with it.

How to get it?

It comes free with a number of computer magazines. These are usually priced around £4, but Mobile Computer costs only £1.90 (so it could be argued, they're not free, but you get the point!). They are the following:

• Mobile Computer Out early july Inside magazine
• Computer Shopper out 20th July 2006 Taped to cover
• PC Pro 20th July 2006 Taped to cover
• Computer Buyer 20th July 2006 Taped to cover
• Mac User 4th Aug 2006 Taped to cover

What you do with it?

If you have wi-fi on your laptop, as most modern laptops do you can use it at 6,000 locations around the UK. Once your laptop "finds the network" you connect through and enter your specific code and you're connected up.

Why's it doing this?

Well freebies are common with Computer magazines anyway, just try to find one that doesn't come with a 'free DVD'! Yet credEcards aim is simple, they want you to try the product, find it really useful then subscribe to buy more minutes.

Luckily once you run out of minutes there's no auto-subscribe, so if you choose to, you can simply use the minutes then forget it.

More details:

CredECard.com Offer (includes technical instructions)
Find the hotspots

satan666wayne

Can you buy more than one?

linuxsapien

I shouldnt see why not

dpc036

didnt expect there to be any hot spots in my town.....how surprised i was to find even the scummiest bars have apparently got it!!

cheers

tonymudd

I think credEcard isn't bad if you want to use wifi briefly spread over a long time - I didn't read the T&Cs - does your credit expire?
Another alternative is getting vouchers for 30 days BT Openzone for £2 on Ebay.
There must be a regular supply of these, since there's a number of sellers offering them and the ones I looked at had good feedback.
As with all things from BT there is bound to be plenty of small-print, it's bound to have a data amount limit as well as the 30 days.
I think they have a roaming agreement with "the cloud" so there's lots of hotspots to use.
Tony.

Jon_C

No coverage is showing in Northern Ireland. Unless anyone has one of these cars and can confirm otherwise?

mikenolan

dpc036 wrote:

didnt expect there to be any hot spots in my town.....how surprised i was to find even the scummiest bars have apparently got it!!

cheers

The hotspots are built into games machines in pubs so the scummier the better!

co123456

Hi - the hotspots look like they are operated by The Cloud. There do not appear to be any BT Openzone or T-Mobile hotspots listed. This would explain why there are no hotspots in Northern Ireland (The Cloud don't have any in NI)
For a full list, see http://wifi.credecard.com/docs/credEcard_hotspot_list.pdf

It's worth comparing the costs against openzone vouchers listed on eBay

competitionscafe

Don't forget some places offer free wireless internet anyway - eg in Edinburgh: Jolly Judge [Royal Mile]; Baroque Bar [Broughton Street]; JuiceMonkeys [near Edinburgh University] - as long as you have a laptop with a wireless card you can use the internet for free (although they probably expect you to buy a beer/juice/coffee!)

quoia

satan666wayne wrote:

Can you buy more than one?

nutellajunkie wrote:

I shouldnt see why not

http://wifi.credecard.com/terms.cfm

These are the standard Terms and Conditions if you have a £10 Wi-Fi Card

3.13 You are only entitled to 1 x £10 Wi-Fi Card unless otherwise agreed in writing by credEcard. An attempt to use more than 1 x £10 Wi-Fi Card may be deemed fraudulent use by credEcard and your access to Wi-Fi services may be suspended indefinately.

3.14 credEcard reserves the right to cancel the £10 Free Credit on the £10 Wi-Fi Card or any part thereof associated with any Wi-Fi Card, or the Wi-Fi Card itself on or after the 31st December 2006.

3.15 credEcard reserves the right to cancel any Wi-Fi cards which it believes are being used in a fraudulent manner.

3.16 The £10 Wi-Fi card is non-transferable and has a face value of 0.1p.

3.17 If you misplace or lose your £10 Wi-Fi Card credEcard is under no obligation to replace it and may cancel it and any associated or credEcard account.

3.18 The £10 Wi-Fi Card is designed provide a mechanism for you to place funds in to the associated credEcard account at any location on the PayPoint network. However credEcard cannot guarantee this intended functionality will work.

Cinders2001

3.13 You are only entitled to 1 x £10 Wi-Fi Card unless otherwise agreed in writing by credEcard. An attempt to use more than 1 x £10 Wi-Fi Card may be deemed fraudulent use by credEcard and your access to Wi-Fi services may be suspended indefinately.

How do they know when you use one (or more to be precise)?

What If you use a different computer?