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If you've got a P900 (or for that matter a P800) you're going to want to use it to browse the web, read your email and generally access the Internet via GPRS, right?
O2 already had the cheapest GPRS tariffs in the UK, but they recently changed their data tariffs making them cheaper still. There is now no monthly subscription, just a per-MB charge that goes down as your usage goes up. Under the old tariffs, a 5MB bundle cost £12/month; on the new tariff, 5MB costs £8.52. And the first 100KB are free.
Carphone Warehouse are an O2 "service provider". They resell O2's service to their customers. If you buy an O2 phone from CPW you are not actually getting a contract with O2, you are getting a contract from Carphone Warehouse Services. (Same deal with CPW and Vodafone.) I called CPW today and was told that they do not offer O2's new GPRS tariffs and they have no particular plans to do so. As a CPW subscriber, I simply cannot get the new data prices.
So: if you were thinking of buying a P900 (or P800) from Carphone Warehouse, think again. O2's prices are at least as good (free P900 with a £45 tariff) and you'll be able to get much better GPRS prices.
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Posted: 2003-12-05 17:00:55
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I dont think o2 even sell those phones themselves do they?
youd have to buy the sim and phone seperatly.
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Posted: 2003-12-05 17:11:35
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O2's retail shops have the P900, although some may have sold out. I've seen it in stock in several locations.
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Posted: 2003-12-05 17:38:26
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Another point: Carphone Warehouse told me today that on all their contracts they now require six months before you can change to a lower tariff. (This is a recent change.) O2 verified that their period is three months.
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Posted: 2003-12-05 22:54:05
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NOTE, o2 shops tariff has a minimum charge per call, CPW same tariff DOES NOT.
o2 shops tariff inclusive minutes do not include 0845/0870/0800 numbers, CPW o2 tariff inclusive minute DO innclude these.
Orange CSD data tariff is £10 a month & you can downgrade to it the DAY you get your phone, meaning a P900 is only £138 for the 12 months, thats lots of money saved to spend on MB's.
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Posted: 2003-12-05 23:03:36
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Just to add to this...
Orange GPRS is either
£6 for 5MB per month if you go for Orange World... which adds 10 text messages, 20 photo messages and 5 video messages for "free"... after 12 months you revert to a "normal" GPRS package
Or if you go for a normal GPRS package to start with, it'll cost £8 for 7MB
Either way, it seems somewhat cheaper or better value than what has been suggested of 02 in this topic...
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Posted: 2003-12-06 00:39:02
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fock sake, thats the swedish standard prise, and that is expensive
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Posted: 2003-12-06 00:44:00
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I didn't know about Orange World. You're right: for 5MB, that bundle's cheaper than O2. But if you exceed the 5MB Orange quickly loses; extra megabytes are £2 on Orange and £1.50 (or less) on O2.
As always, it's down to how exactly much you use, but broadly speaking O2 have the most competitive data tariffs I've seen in the UK - most especially for heavy users.
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Posted: 2003-12-07 00:03:18
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On 2003-12-07 00:03:18, peregrinum wrote:
............................................................. broadly speaking O2 have the most competitive data tariffs I've seen in the UK - most especially for heavy users.
Have you thought of dieting ?
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Posted: 2003-12-07 00:44:45
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Ohh
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Posted: 2003-12-07 00:45:11
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