GPRS Tescos PAYG far too expensive

jago25_98

Tescos GPRS is charging me 1p/kb (about £1 a mb).

This means that even checking my email costs at least 10p.

Sometimes I get stuck and would find GPRS useful for:

- checking bank balances / credit cards
- email
- maps
- cheap sms

But it's far too expensive for all these things.

What is a better way to do it?
When I was on Easymobile I was spending £5-15 a month, now I'm somehow spending £20+.

What are the alternatives for someone usually spending £15 a month?

diamonds

t-mobile sim only ? 50 mins x net calls £7.50 pm
add on 7.50 for unlimited wap

buy a text bundle and for under 20.00 bobs yer uncle

fox2319

If it's 1p per kb that's £10 per MB!

Don't know where else would be good for you. I'm on 3 X-series but that's an 18 month contract. There's ways of bringing down the average monthly cost but it's still going to work out £25 per month on average.

May get cheaper if they open up x-series to other handsets. At the mo, it only seems to be N-73.

Cheers

Jeff

Need_More_Money_2

jago25_98 wrote:

Tescos GPRS is charging me 1p/kb (about £1 a mb).

This means that even checking my email costs at least 10p.

Sometimes I get stuck and would find GPRS useful for:

- checking bank balances / credit cards
- email
- maps
- cheap sms

But it's far too expensive for all these things.

What is a better way to do it?
When I was on Easymobile I was spending £5-15 a month, now I'm somehow spending £20+.

What are the alternatives for someone usually spending £15 a month?

I've been looking at this recently to try and find the cheapest way to use GPRS on PAYG.

Tesco is supposed to be £4 per MB. O2 is £3/MB but you can buy bundles.

Virgin charge 0.5p/kb

T-mobile charge 0.73p/kb which works out at about £7.50 per MB BUT they cap it at a max of £1 per day. So once you've used about 140k you don't get charged any more that day.

I'd be interested if anyone knows of anything cheaper

jago25_98

thanks diamonds, will check out t-mobile coverage in norfolk

sprokit

diamonds wrote:

t-mobile sim only ? 50 mins x net calls £7.50 pm
add on 7.50 for unlimited wap

buy a text bundle and for under 20.00 bobs yer uncle

was looking at going this way but I thought I had read that you had to be on a flex contract with them (and that seems to be a minimum of about £25 a month) before you could add the 7.50 for unlimited wap - have I misunderstood (would love it if I have)

medic1978

o2 PAYG. Top up £10 a month and get 1MB inclusive allowance and 300 texts OR free minutes (cant remember exactly how many).

Orange also do a similar deal with minimum £10 top-up/month (1MB inclusive allowance)

teeb

For the moment if your phone'll take java applications, install Opera Mobile and use that as your browser.

It resizes the text and images on their servers before forwarding it to your phone, as opposed to the entire website hitting your phone and then being resized. It should cut down on the number of megabytes you go through a fair bit.

jago25_98

Tescos just sent me an email apologising regarding not being on the extra tarrif and credited me an extra £5.

They didn't address the GPRS issue however, and just confirmed that it should be £4/mb. It's definately more than that, generally costing at least 10p to visit gmail with Opera.