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GPRS costs - what they are |
roklipni
Joined: May 20, 2002
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In our country the GPRS is new (since may i think) and it costs 6$/Mb, or if you prepay 8$ (including 2Mb), than every Mb costs 2$.
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devis45
Joined: Aug 14, 2002
Posts: 39
From: New Orleans, Louisiana
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With VoiceStream in USA we pay $3 for 1 Mb a month, then the next plan up is $20 for 5 Mb. This assumes that you use your phone as a modem aswell as access WAP pages. There's more data plans. I currently subscribe to the 20 dollar plan. So far so good... |
ja@mx
Joined: Aug 13, 2002
Posts: 51
From: Conyers, GA/Saltillo, MX
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In my country Mexico Telcel, GPRS is new since March and it's free so far. Yipee. |
roklipni
Joined: May 20, 2002
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In our country one megabyte costs around 6$. |
arnoldc
Joined: Dec 14, 2001
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From: Philippines
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for the philippines operators globe telecom and smart communications, still free (almost a year already)  |
zmax
Joined: Sep 02, 2002
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Russia Moscow Beeline
I pay 3 euro/US$ for 10 Mb,
WAP - 3.6 euro/US$ per 30 day (unlimited) |
elvinchan
Joined: Sep 02, 2002
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here in malaysia gprs usage both by time and data.... RM0.10 per 10kb, its roughly US0.025 per 10kb... |
agentbob
Joined: Apr 12, 2002
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i have an account with fido (www.fido.ca) here in Canada and they charge i think roughly $50 CAD/MB ($30 USD) if you pay per kb..... or *UNLIMITED* for $50 CAD/month which makes no sense to me. So I just pay for the unlimited and use it all the time.
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wapchimp
Joined: Jun 09, 2002
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From: Land of the chimps
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As I said before - I only pay £4 a month as orange has a billing problem - they can't tell when u over ur bundle at the moment!!! so its unlimited - all those poor people paying £30 a month for a bigger bundle!! haha
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masterino
Joined: Aug 06, 2002
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In italy, vodafone-omnitel:
€ 0,03 every Kb.
so, 1 MB cost € 30 for WAP browsing.
web browsing (with a notebook connected via IRDA or similar)
cost € 0,006 every Kb
but it will be rounded to the upper 10Kb.
(i.e: if in one single connection you use only 2Kb, you will pay 10Kb.) |
olympus12
Joined: Aug 21, 2002
Posts: 20
From: Greece
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In Greece with TELESTET is free until 31/12/2002!I have already downloaded 150 mbytes!
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bigjobs
Joined: Aug 27, 2002
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Has anyone not realised what a rippoff these prices are?
In UK it is 2p kb!!!
that means, and correct me if I'm wrong that a 3mb mp3 would cost
around £60 to download!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK not it's primary use, but they do mention music downloads in there advertising.
1 WAP page from my site (10 pics 3kb each) would cost 60p to download....60p for 10 101X80 pics...hmmmmm, something not quite right here.
Hello (bangs on head of corporate telecoms CEO) what are you thinking?
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EddWo
Joined: Jul 27, 2002
Posts: 64
From: UK
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do you think a UK network will ever have an unmetered bundle, it'd be worth paying £50 a month for, Using GPRS is faster than my normal modem, but at the current prices it is impossible to imagine using it for more than 2minutes at a time. I certainly hope they don't continue this rediculous level o pricing when 3G comes round. The prices are ok for simple phone based wap access, but they are marketing it as so much more than that.
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wapchimp
Joined: Jun 09, 2002
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EDDwo - its aimed mostly at business users in UK - big corporate customers - there is a £500 gprs bundle on orange!!!!! f**kin crazy
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pinin_d
Joined: Sep 14, 2002
Posts: 7
From: England
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is it not a good idea to use gprs then?? as i have just got my phone and thought if it is on and better then best use it, but not at that price!
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Posted: 2002-08-22 12:32
