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P800 GPRS /Vodafone - Html browsing question |
STUuk
Joined: Feb 13, 2003
Posts: 70
From: Watford (not the GAP)
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Hi
waiting to get a P800, was thinking the other day about how costly browsing Html sites on the P800 browser via GPRS would be.
Does anyone have a comment on this. If you have to pay a base monthly GPRS subscription charge and then a charge for each KB or 1,000 bytes(can be 0.73p per KB) of data transferred, would this not be a hefty monthly charge if you use the browser a lot over GPRS, considering a standard html page like yahoo could be 46KB in size to be downloaded to your device.
Maybe Ive got this all wrong, if someone could put my mind at ease i would be grateful.
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Andy_P
Joined: Jun 10, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Warwickshire
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I pay £30 a month for unlimited GPRS...  |
Jimmy_75000
Joined: Feb 08, 2003
Posts: 59
From: London
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On wich network? Vodafone UK? |
STUuk
Joined: Feb 13, 2003
Posts: 70
From: Watford (not the GAP)
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Vodafone UK. Not really prepared to be shelling out a fortune just to be able to view HTML pages on the move! Vodafone make enough money from their high call charges (goes for all networks). It seems a bit steep to charge 0.1 - 0.73p per measly KB.
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Jimmy_75000
Joined: Feb 08, 2003
Posts: 59
From: London
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So fare, I pay soemthing like £7.5 for 1M per month |
STUuk
Joined: Feb 13, 2003
Posts: 70
From: Watford (not the GAP)
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So Does the 1 MB go far? Is there a menu in the P800 which can show how much data you have transferred at a given period?
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Sydney, London
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I don't think 1Mb goes very far. I upgraded a couple of month ago to the 5mb plan on vodafone but think I could use more! They don't seem to have an unlinited plan though. Their top plan is 100Mb for £117.50! yikes! |
Andy_P
Joined: Jun 10, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Warwickshire
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Singlepoint vodaphone...
And people slag off singlepoint all the time... I reckon ive got an incredible deal! |
richardadc
Joined: Jul 11, 2002
Posts: 118
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If you're going to use Vodafone and have a tariff under Voda 200 then it won't be cheap, in fact it's a rip off. However, if you use GPRS a lot it may be worth upgrading to either Voda Business or Voda 200 so you can get the GPRS select tariff - which is charged at about £2.30/MB. Orange seem to be the cheapest at £2/MB, which is why i'm sticking with them. |
masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Sydney, London
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nah. just called Vodafone and was informed the GPRS rates are the same no matter what call tariff you are on, business or not. |
ndo
Joined: Feb 13, 2003
Posts: 1
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I wouldn't worry unduly
Local vodafone store just informed me April for p800.....
plent of time for prices to drop
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Sydney, London
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worries me. I have my P800 already but have been using T68i/ipaq for over a year now on GPRS and my usage seems to increase every month!
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Andy_P
Joined: Jun 10, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Warwickshire
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I think they're going through a process of change...
I was very lucky with my deal as singlepoint promised GPRS to me when I signed up so they had to fulfil it. As they only ended up with 2 subscriptions they didn't put a process in place to measure how much I use... so they said £30 p.m. unlimited.
Bonus.... can't wait to rape it with the p800... |
masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Sydney, London
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Bonus.... can't wait to rape it with the p800...
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I think you forgot to put a big smiley at the end of that sentence, you lucky £$%^&*!
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jepaz
Joined: Jul 29, 2002
Posts: 131
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in my country, Philippines, GPRS via Wap is still free.
This message was posted from a P800 |
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Posted: 2003-02-13 15:23
