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Just got a letter from the nice people at o2 advising me my GPRS and/or 3G data access will be free until next year. Only clause seems to be a fair use policy, so no downloading 20gig per day via it but its a nice little early xmas pressie.
Anyone else received this offer?
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Posted: 2004-10-14 01:15:42
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You one of there customers who is trialing 3g for O2? Or you a standard customer who has purchased a data card? :-) This message was posted from a Nokia
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Posted: 2004-10-14 01:22:54
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nah, Im just a customer who bought a p900 on contract last year and who uses about 5MB per month.

I wish trhey would send me a 3G card for my laptop though...that would be very nice
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Posted: 2004-10-14 01:24:34
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a bit off topic but how fast is the 3G gonna be? something like standard broadband cca 512KB? and anybody knows how much its gonna be per month to get a 3G card for laptop?
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Posted: 2004-10-14 04:26:00
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Well, the poor man's way to get it working is to buy a cheap 3G phone and get it unlocked. I have a Moto A835 which I bought cheaply from 3 and got it unlocked and use my laptop and O2 SIM to get onto the web using GPRS. Hopefully as it's a 3G phone, it should work with O2's 3G service when it launches.

As far as speed goes, networks are saying 384kbps maximum. Of course your mileage may vary but it hopefully will be quite a bit faster than GPRS.
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Posted: 2004-10-14 15:35:32
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I think cost is the big problem right now, the telco's invested large sums into the 3g network, more than they can see how to recoup. Therefore the charges are high, aimed squarely at business users at the moment.

I recall from memory the vodaphone unit was something like £200 for the 3g card, that was reduced if you signed up for a £65 per month tariff. I think data charges on top of that allocation were £2 per megabyte. Maybe they have come down since then but I still dont think it will be cheap by any stretch of the imagination.
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Posted: 2004-10-14 19:13:02
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T-Mobiles 3G data card was launched 2months back This message was posted from a Nokia
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Posted: 2004-10-14 20:01:14
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I've seen the Orange 3G card in action & it was performing at about 115kbps.

They charge £150 for the card then £20 + VAT for 65MB per month
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Posted: 2004-10-14 23:19:00
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so its pretty expensive then. i dont mind the monthly charge, but what i mind is that they charge you for the downloaded data. i thought its gonna be possible to have it unlimited for such price.
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Posted: 2004-10-15 07:13:00
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I think the issue witht he 'pay per MB download' plans is that as soon as the telco's offer all you can eat for a flat charge users will go crazy. Also, with an all you could eat plan you could essentially sign up for some kind of VoIP service and therefore not have to pay to actually use the telephone network on your mobile anymore. I think they'll be cautious about this.
Of course, I would happily pay a flat rate my honest GPRS usage for things like reading web pages on the move.
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Posted: 2004-10-15 10:06:00
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