Samba Mobile Broadband - Is it Really Free?

cinereus

Has anyone got a response regarding not being credited correctly?

Blue_Max

cinereus wrote: »

Has anyone got a response regarding not being credited correctly?

couple of replies from a Samba Rep in the 'Ask a Question' section at Samba site

djdandew

Thanks for this never heard about them before just signed up with promo code for £1.00 and have already earned 20mb in 5 mins

Ironside13

I've been reading with interest all comments about saving free DATA credit with Samba..some users have said they leave two,or three of their items,such as ipads,laptops turned on all day, to collect this free credit by watching video adverts...

What about the electricity bills this is creating?
I didn't realise the electric was also free too,or maybe not.

Blue_Max

Ironside13 wrote: »

I've been reading with interest all comments about saving free DATA credit with Samba..some users have said they leave two,or three of their items,such as ipads,laptops turned on all day, to collect this free credit by watching video adverts...

What about the electricity bills this is creating?
I didn't realise the electric was also free too,or maybe not.

you are not using solar power then :eek:

Uplink

Ironside13 wrote: »

What about the electricity bills this is creating?
I didn't realise the electric was also free too,or maybe not.

In many situations, those devices would be powered on anyway. So if they can do something a bit useful while heating the planet, why not?

redux

Ironside13 wrote: »

I've been reading with interest all comments about saving free DATA credit with Samba..some users have said they leave two,or three of their items,such as ipads,laptops turned on all day, to collect this free credit by watching video adverts...

What about the electricity bills this is creating?
I didn't realise the electric was also free too,or maybe not.

Perhaps you or they have misunderstood it a little

Manual action is needed to start each advert and select the next. Even if someone clever can write a script to work in the browser and do this automatically, the number of ads that will be played per day is finite
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A separate point. It does seem to be getting popular. There is a promotion to earn double data per ad watched tonight and tomorrow, and the site seems rather slow at the moment, so maybe quite busy, but almost too tedious to bother.

prowla

If my PC is on and running then the additional power utilization to view Samba is negligible (and certainly outweighed by the credit amount).

Blue_Max

prowla wrote: »

If my PC is on and running then the additional power utilization to view Samba is negligible (and certainly outweighed by the credit amount).

yeah but what about your carbon foot print?

prowla

Blue_Max wrote: »

yeah but what about your carbon foot print?

As I say, if my PC is on...
(If it's off its footprint is zero.)