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O2 PAYG free GPRS - works for me on p900! |
tamlyn
Joined: Apr 21, 2005
Posts: 31
From: Manchester
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It appears O2 GPRS is no longer free as of 2005-08-01. O2 have just lost themselves a customer as free GPRS was the only reason I was sticking with them...
Tetris is so unrealistic. |
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kman1
Joined: Nov 16, 2004
Posts: 26
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[ This Message was edited by: kman1 on 2008-12-25 12:49 ] |
zyavar
Joined: Jun 11, 2003
Posts: 154
From: Kent, United Kingdom
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ok, i think i may know whats going on here!
i have by the way lost the FREE GPRS too.
i think they have obviously started charging now, however, O2 have ove 15million subscribers in UK alone and the computer or program which is carrying this task cant possibly do them all at once!
so, it will start lets say, from prefix 07701xxxxxx then, 07702xxxxxx till the end!
it could take some time! and thats possibly why some of us still enjoy the free GPRS and some of us dont!
so i think sooner or later everyone would be affected!
Yav form Kent.
(***CPW436*** this code might make sense to some people)
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p800man
Joined: Aug 19, 2005
Posts: 1
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Man I thought I was havin it bad having racked up about £3 of wap charges from the previous free settings.
C'mon guys share your info, ive got a p800 and there must still be a way of get in this for free!!!
It was good while it lasted so please help us out if you can! |
them0nk
Joined: Aug 19, 2005
Posts: 1
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Nope I have lost my free access also... Seems o2 are stamping it out slowly.
*cries* |
colliebarney
Joined: Sep 16, 2005
Posts: 1
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hiya, i have a motorola v620, on o2 payg genie simcard, i managed to get my wap working after almost 7 months of trying but i cannot find the proxy settings to enable to free thingy. also my phone has instant messaging that i cannot activate either, this is very frustrating, can anyone help me with this problem. cos it seems pointless to me having IM if it won't work, thank you |
scormie
Joined: Oct 22, 2004
Posts: 376
From: Wessex UK
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colliebarney wrote:
... also my phone has instant messaging that i cannot activate either, this is very frustrating, can anyone help me with this problem. cos it seems pointless to me having IM if it won't work, thank you
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I suspect it's because you need proper Internet access for IM -- and o2 UK PAYG customers don't get that (not on GPRS at any rate).
You could use a dial-up (GSM) connection instead, but it would be both slow and expensive. Sorry! |
dekesh
Joined: Jun 28, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: London, UK
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ah well, it wos fun while it lasted 
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_c_o_r_s_a_
Joined: Aug 17, 2005
Posts: 64
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does verichat work for free with these settings? |
dekesh
Joined: Jun 28, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: London, UK
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the settings DO NOT work anymore so it wont be free
[addsig] |
Miffed
Joined: Nov 09, 2004
Posts: 7
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I *may* have discovered a workaround
I recently (saturday 26/11/05) set up a GPRS card with a laptop for a friend , and I gave them am o2 online sim , and set up the free settings as normal , these worked for about six hours and saw some pretty constant use - however , then all of a sudden the connection stopped working (well , the connection carried on working but the traffic stopped) , Just out of interest , I took the sim out and put it in my phone , and was greeted with the message "to use o2 data services you need at least 50p blah blah yadda yadda "
Now I refuse to beleive that my Brand new sim which had been sitting in my cupboard for over 6 months had just "come up for the chop" 6 hours after opening it (some coincidence huh ? )
Consider I had never put a penny's credit on the sim at all - so how come I didn't get the "50p" message straight away ? and why did it let the data flow ?
My guess is that if I open another sim , credit it up , and then use it for GPRS only , that as long as the credit stays above 50p = I will get no 50p warning = th internet access may not stop !
This is based on the theory that they start charging on issue of the "50p" notice
Just a theory ! worth trying I suppose
( Incidently - I have had an XDA mini & an XDAII on an online contract for nearly a year now and have NEVER paid a single penny in data charges ! this is using o2's Factory settings ! - so I guess billing for data is not one of o2's strongpoints )
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ten18
Joined: Nov 27, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: London Baby!
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i think i can help.
You get 1mb FREE whether you top up or not with new o2 sims. Once you use up that 1mb you start getting the 50p warnings...
Because youve used up your free 1mb of GPRS... its stopped working.
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john9904
Joined: Dec 09, 2005
Posts: 1
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Hi, I have just been reading everyones posts about free GPRS on PAYG and how o2 have stopped it, however i do have some info that some of you mite find helpful.
I have contract with o2 on o2 250 i have been getting free GPRS for the past 6 months. when i went away on holiday in the summer i used about 90mb in two weeks and didnt get charged anything, so have just got myself an XDA IIs and started hammering the hell out of it.
Hope this helps anyone looking for free grps, i know you have to pay monthly but if you call alot anyway its worth it!!!
John |
Greggy
Joined: Feb 04, 2004
Posts: > 500
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you actualy get 5mb free with new sims |
sushkebab
Joined: Dec 23, 2005
Posts: 7
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these didnt seem to work on my P910i
Anyone else had the same problem? a pop up comes up which usually reads, "An error occured in the communication with the WAP gateway. Check WAP account settings in the control panel 513"
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Posted: 2005-08-17 20:48
