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EEEK !! GPRS phone bill...... |
jellyellie
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On 2003-02-24 16:12, ojsph wrote:
that was a huge astonishing bill i think, i got a postpaid line too but on about £7 budget only a month. and i love phil globe telecom for a still free gprs access!! thanks globe and today is the anniversary of my t65, you are my most unforgettable telecom experience!!
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Hopefully a good telecom experience!
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bigjobs
Joined: Aug 27, 2002
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PAY AS YOU GO ONLINE, ON 02 They give 300 mins free WAP , but you seem to be able to use GPRS as well as dial up.
I have downloaded 10's,mb's of data for no charge, giv it a look.
I've been pointing this out for years, that they were going to charge 2p per kb, this is a fookin jooookeeee, thats like 30 quid to fill a floppy disk!!!!!!!!!!!!! It must be 100X more expensive than a landline.
(by the way. I sent an e-mail to one-2-one as it was then, saying the first people to get bills at those prices will go ballistic, and that that pricing structure is a very sad joke, got no reply)
Work it out, a dial up link is usually 10p min, at roughly 1kb/sec, thats 60kb a min, 60 kb on GPRS-T-Mobile would be £1.20!!!!!!! and only 10p on dial up!!!!!!!! In fact 1mb of data would take roughly 1000 secs, which is roughly 17 mins or £1.70, hmmm GPRS IS very expensive compared to dial up, on any package it's on.
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Fred_est
Joined: Feb 22, 2003
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I pay around 7 EUR for UNLIMITED GPRS (this price remains until April).
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baileynash
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I pay 33 cents a minute in peak time, and off peak is 16.5c with Telstra Mobile in Australia.
The prblem with the huge bill, maybe you arn't disconnecting your phone properly.
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dazbradbury
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On 2003-02-24 20:44, bigjobs wrote:
PAY AS YOU GO ONLINE, ON 02 They give 300 mins free WAP , but you seem to be able to use GPRS as well as dial up.
I have downloaded 10's,mb's of data for no charge, giv it a look.
I've been pointing this out for years, that they were going to charge 2p per kb, this is a fookin jooookeeee, thats like 30 quid to fill a floppy disk!!!!!!!!!!!!! It must be 100X more expensive than a landline.
(by the way. I sent an e-mail to one-2-one as it was then, saying the first people to get bills at those prices will go ballistic, and that that pricing structure is a very sad joke, got no reply)
Work it out, a dial up link is usually 10p min, at roughly 1kb/sec, thats 60kb a min, 60 kb on GPRS-T-Mobile would be £1.20!!!!!!! and only 10p on dial up!!!!!!!! In fact 1mb of data would take roughly 1000 secs, which is roughly 17 mins or £1.70, hmmm GPRS IS very expensive compared to dial up, on any package it's on.
[ This Message was edited by: bigjobs on 2003-02-24 20:17 ]
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I'm on that pay as you go online package, the one with 300 free txts?? But how do you set up GPRS for free?? that would be kool, you wouldn't mind giving me a little step by step? It's just i'm on a t68i atm, but am upgrading to a p800 soon, and once that's here i definately want a GPRS account,
let me know,
thanks,
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baileynash
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What you mean set it up for free. Ring your phone company and tell them you want it set up, they will sms you the install thing and you are away. GPRS isn't free though
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dazbradbury
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I was referring to big jobs, he said he's managed to download 10mb's with no charge... |
stuffman
Joined: Mar 19, 2002
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That's all nothing 
If you tell me how to paste JPEG pictures here, I'll paste the part of my bill where downloaded data is... you'll fart your assez apart!
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janahan
Joined: Jan 13, 2003
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Check that you were not undercharged, coz i am on T-Mobile too, and that looks like the price EXCLUDING Vat, add Vat, and you will find you did pay for the extra £14 or so..
Yeah T-Mobile sucks big time on that, thats why i got an Orange PAYG phone for GPRS (£4 per MB). Annopying carrying two phoens though... still has its advantages, since they give me 5 free text messages a day!  |
ani( ! )al
Joined: May 19, 2002
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yeah free gprs on payandgo o2 it's great I send about 1 mb e-mails a day on my nokia 7650 and go on wap with it and when the battery runs out and my arm hurts from holding the brick for so long I stick the sim in my t68i and check my yahoo e-mail every 10mins and go on esato.....i just can't stop wondering  when o2 are gonna figure out that there customers has free gprs and stop it......please don't o2 it's great to rub it in with my mates who are all on orange and t-moblie ....
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dazbradbury
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how do you get it?? who do i call? where do i set it up??
please let me know!! |
stuffman
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How do I paste the f**kin JPEG in here??? I quess it's gonna be the HTTP command, but I don't know HTTP commands, at all
I'll try it here...
If it doesn't work out, sorry...
It works... The Objem dat is the amount ok kB downloaded
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bigjobs
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It's just the normal GPRS access, get the settings sent to you from 02, you can use the web site http://www.o2.co.uk/productsservices/mobileinternet/setupwap/0,,131,00.html or the helpdesk, it just appears that the free 300mins is GPRS as well, maybe they haven't realised or just don't care, but it's a kick in the teeth for contract users who have to pay full price, the incompetent fukups at 02, who couldnt organise jakshit, are charging their most loyal customers, who pay a monthly rental, lots more than pay-go customers, fookin madness.
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spike731
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Im on an old Genie tariff (now O2 Online), its a prepaid tariff and you MUST top up £10 each month, which can be used for calls or MMS. In return for this I received UNLIMITED free GPRS (only launched a few months back on my tariff) WAP and best of all SMS. Seeing as I use the tenna top up on calls and MMS, the everything else is basically free. Genie soon realised this tariff was going to cost them lots so they moved all new and future customers onto a tariff giving them 300 free texts and 300 free wap or
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spike731
Joined: Jul 18, 2002
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CONT...or GPRS. Thankfully customers who joined the tariff before a certain date (i did :-D) were allowed to remain on the original tariff. The only annoyance is the below average reception around here. I remember when I first joined Genie I used to sling texts back and forth for hours on end, the only problem was that everyone else was doing the same leading to texts failing 80% of the time. Things improved dramatically when the new users had limits imposed. Genie managed to get itself in plenty of hot...
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