Samba Mobile Broadband - Is it Really Free?

cinereus

Roughly how long would it take to watch all the ads you're eligible for each day?

Blue_Max

cinereus wrote: »

Roughly how long would it take to watch all the ads you're eligible for each day?

depends on how many ads are offered. Newcomers get more ads till they reach around 1GB.
Most ads are under a minute. Some can be as long as 6 mins or more.

But credit is not guaranteed. Many posts at the Samba forum complaining about ads that fail to give credit.

cinereus

Has there been any Samba response to this?

Blue_Max

cinereus wrote: »

Has there been any Samba response to this?

rarely! At their site, click 'help&community' button, then 'ask the community' and look through the threads.

Blue_Max

redux wrote: »

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.

yeah! the double data deal ran into problems. There were many complaints. Samba server got overloaded! The company is changing it.
As a goodwill gesture, the company credited affected people with a 50 MB free bonus.

bettyscott

Hello, just joined the game. How long do I have to wait before I can get more credit?

culpepper

We used our samba sim in a dongle while away in uk for 9 days.
I had 1.5 gb (earned in 3 weeks)

The dongle recognised the sim and the connection using the sim was perfect , I over estimated the amount I would use per day so 1.5gb was ample but....
there were only 1 or 2 adverts to watch daily while on the dongle .
On returning home and accessing the site with the same laptop but via our home broadband, there were a good 20 or so.
I have been home for 5 days now and have earned 55 mb a day average.
So to use it continuously for free if you do more than just a few emails and some general lightweight surfing ,you would have to charge your sim with adverts via a free wifi connection on your laptop else you would run out and have to top up with your hard earned cash.
You cant watch their adverts on mobile phones or at least none of the browsers on my symbian phone could play the videos even though I could log in to the webpage.
It is ideal for travel or holidays within the UK. Essentially we had broadband while away for £1 because we used the sim code from here to get the £1 sim and our own unlocked dongle. Even for £5(normal sim cost) this is good value.

culpepper

bettyscott wrote: »

Hello, just joined the game. How long do I have to wait before I can get more credit?

They add adverts over the course of the day.
I log on in the morning and do some then during lunch break and after tea in the evening.
I have been getting around 15 or so a day but when you are new they will be more frequent until you have caught up .

Blue_Max

has anyone tried the Samba SIM for assisted GPS ?

kwequ

This is my experience regarding their 'service':

1. -30.3mb before I could even get the dongle to work.
2. No support from Samba (have emailed and the only response after wasting time on the 'help' page was to get an email saying my account was in the RED! - see point 1). 3. BATTERY cannot be downloaded because Firefox says the file is corrupted. (I'm saving screen shots as evidence.)
4. Ads will not load and the error message is INCORRECT: a) it's NOT loading so I have NOT forgotten to click 'play'; b) I am NOT trying to watch more than one ad at a time (the bloomin' things have to load first!); and c) I do NOT have any ad blockers.
So what is the problem Samba? Are you a scam? You have my £25 and I have NO SERVICE!