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GPRS costs - what they are |
EddWo
Joined: Jul 27, 2002
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From: UK
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@orangeman, for that sort of money you could ge a wo way satalite connection, not very mobile i know but it will work anywhere. If these mad pricing schemes continue into 3G is definately won't be worth it. I don't care that the government ripped them off over the licences, this sort of pricing structure is extortionate.
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sebtek
Joined: Aug 19, 2002
Posts: 34
From: Adelaide, Australia
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yeah well - i've finally got my palm Sony CLIE set up with GPRS.
Yes - at the moment it is a rip off - in most countries. as there are only 3 carriers in AU, they form an oligopoly (probably the same in most countries), and i doubt prices are going to go down for sometime. GPRS is a very new technology, and would you care to remember how much people paid for mobile phones about 5 years ago - certainly a hell of a lot more, than they do today.
We can't really do much about it - we'll just have to wait.
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wapchimp
Joined: Jun 09, 2002
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From: Land of the chimps
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orange will soon have an 'unlimited' gprs bundle for wap only @ £4.00 per month - 'unlimited' meaning a fair use policy of 10mb - which in comparison is a bargain!!
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Vertical Mind
Joined: Sep 29, 2002
Posts: 105
From: Sweden
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The Swedish TELIA network offers a few fifferent rates:
1: $10/month for 5 Mb
2: $30/month for 25Mb.
I use the first opption as I dont do much mobile websurfing, mostly WAP. |
marius
Joined: Sep 28, 2002
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In my country our only GPRS capable operator gives it for FREE. No date set for when they'll start billing.
Dialog GSM is the best. |
vgergo
Joined: Jul 01, 2002
Posts: 36
From: Budapest, Hungary
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In Hungary we have 3 operators, the one I'm on (Pannon GSM) is the best! There are two possible GPRS WAP payment methods:
(1) Pay per kilobyte, then it's €0.00104/kbyte after 6pm (very cheap!), or €0,00333/kbyte between 8am and 6pm.
(2) Or,,, (since the middle of this month) you can pay €2.20 monthly for unlimited WAP access, and that includes data-call based WAP also! My T68i is almost constantly online, I have it check emails every 5 minutes 
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Korova
Joined: Sep 25, 2002
Posts: 344
From: Surrey, UK
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@orangeman
£4.00 unlimited GPRS bundle.
What exactly do you mean, "WAP only"? Does it just exclude surfing the web on your laptop, connected to your phone via GPRS?
Any idea on when "soon" is?
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wapchimp
Joined: Jun 09, 2002
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From: Land of the chimps
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only acces to wap service - still need a separate GPRS bundle for e-mails/web connection
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aerryawan
Joined: Nov 05, 2002
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aerryawan
Joined: Nov 05, 2002
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IM-3 in indonesia now charge Rp.38.5,- or about 2usd$ per 1Mb.
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Joachim
Joined: Nov 04, 2002
Posts: 5
From: Belgium
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In Belgium with Proximus it is 25 Euro for 10MB |
GixxerForHire
Joined: Nov 04, 2002
Posts: 8
From: MIAMI
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AT&T WIreless in USA. $8 for 1mb, $13 for 4mb, and $20 for 8mb. It goes up from there. Its a new thing in the US. I'm in sales and people in the US are very stubborn at adopting new technology. I still have a hard time selling people SMS service. |
langerdan
Joined: Nov 07, 2002
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Vodafone Ireland prepaid is currently free (for me anyway).
O2 was free for a while but not anymore. |
porterg
Joined: Sep 13, 2002
Posts: 45
From: North Carolina
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Cingular carolinas, $6.99 for 1mb. Just got T68i's here, finally |
snap-hiss
Joined: Nov 06, 2002
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From: fair Imladris
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ATTWS is free for unlimited MBs... oh wait.. that's the employee plan.. sorry... 
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