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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / February 2008Best Cheap Tariff for Data
Hello All, Could anyone recommend a cheap tariff please (either PAYG or contract)? My only requirement is plenty of data usage either bundled or at a low rate. Ideally the network would charge the same price whether GPRS or 3G. I'm going to buy an HTC Kaiser off contract, but I hardly ever use a mobile for voice (15mins a month max). I reckon I could get through around 50Mbytes/month of data though, mainly email and using Google maps. I have used Orange since the early days, but since Snook is long gone, I have no particular reason for loyalty. Many thanks for your time. James. On 04 Feb 2008, James.Brown wrote > Hello All, > > Could anyone recommend a cheap tariff please (either PAYG or > contract)? My only requirement is plenty of data usage either > bundled or at a low rate. Ideally the network would charge the > same price whether GPRS or 3G. The PAYG chart at the back of the current Carphone Warehouse brochure lists GPRS rates; the cheapest in there is from 3 (at £1/MB). O2 is £3/MB, Orange is £4/MB; Virgin is £5.12/MB; and both T-Mobile and Vodafone do a "max £1/day" deal. I don't know if those are also 3G rates, though. > On 04 Feb 2008, James.Brown wrote > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > I don't know if those are also 3G rates, though. T-Mobile is whatever your phone locks onto GPRS, UTMS, HSDPA etc. It's £1 per day or £7.50/month. >> On 04 Feb 2008, James.Brown wrote >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >T-Mobile is whatever your phone locks onto GPRS, UTMS, HSDPA etc. It's £1 >per day or £7.50/month. Where do you see the £7.50 a month about? And T-Mob have a deal for a pair of free SIMS on a PAYG deal right now too... They seem be be limited to an AUP of £1/40MB a day, but they say it's calculated on a monthly basis, so just over 1GB a month.. Tempting... Gordon >>T-Mobile is whatever your phone locks onto GPRS, UTMS, HSDPA etc. It's £1 >>per day or £7.50/month. > > Where do you see the £7.50 a month about? Look for "web'n'walk" >>>T-Mobile is whatever your phone locks onto GPRS, UTMS, HSDPA etc. It's £1 >>>per day or £7.50/month. >> >> Where do you see the £7.50 a month about? > >Look for "web'n'walk" Ah right. I was just looking at the PAYG Sim-only stuff. I'm a bit stuck in my own contract with O2 for the next 10 months (did get a v. good deal on a Nokia E90 though :) So been looking for a better data thingy, and I don't mind swapping SIMs to get it... Ta, Gordon >>>>T-Mobile is whatever your phone locks onto GPRS, UTMS, HSDPA etc. >>>>It's £1 [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Gordon You do know O2 have a data bolt-on for £7.50 a month? >>>>>T-Mobile is whatever your phone locks onto GPRS, UTMS, HSDPA etc. >>>>>It's £1 [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >You do know O2 have a data bolt-on for £7.50 a month? Yes, and it's far too expensive. I don't need mobile data access that often, so a separate PAYG sim will work for me. Cheers, Gordon > On 04 Feb 2008, James.Brown wrote > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > I don't know if those are also 3G rates, though. I'd recommend Three if you have good coverage in your area. As well as the cheap £1 a MB pay as you use it rate they have some very attractive bundles. I use the Internet Monthly which is £5 a month for up to 1GB of data. http://three.co.uk/personal/price_plans_/pay_as_you_go_/what_it_costs.omp I'm on PAYG with Three, bought £10 credit and got my sim card for free. Martin. On 5 Feb, 07:49, HVS <use...@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> wrote: > > On 04 Feb 2008, James.Brown wrote > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > > > I don't know if those are also 3G rates, though. > I'd recommend Three if you have good coverage in your area. > > As well as the cheap £1 a MB pay as you use it rate they have some > very attractive bundles. > I use the Internet Monthly which is £5 a month for up to 1GB of data. http://three.co.uk/personal/price_plans_/pay_as_you_go_/what_it_costs.omp > I'm on PAYG with Three, bought £10 credit and got my sim card for > free. > Martin. I also use this option with my SE K610i on Three's network and it works just fine. AFAIK, if you request a PAC code from your existing network and port in to Three around the middle of the second month, Three will credit you with £10 credit which is valid for 30 days. This could possibly pay for another month (or 2) towards your £5 "Internet add On" :-) or at the very least, it might scare your existing network into offering you a deal to stay with them. Alan > On 5 Feb, 07:49, HVS <use...@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > Alan I too ported an old Virgin PAYG number to Three and got my free £10 credit. When i rang Virgin to ask for the PAC code they asked me why i was leaving the Virgin network. I told them i was moving to Three and going to get 1GB data for £5 instead of Virgin's £5.12 a MB. Needless to say i wasn't offered a deal from Three to beat the Three deal! Martin. > [...] > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > [...] Thanks very much everyone, there are some excellent pointers here. I was quite interested in the Vodafone deal because they have microcells in our building, but it turns out you need to be a pay monthly customer and that weighs in at £15 per month. Looking at the Orange website, their PAYG Speakeasy has a £2 per day cap for "data browsing". Unfortunately, they don't explain whether that means literally port 80 (www traffic) or all data traffic. I also don't know if the same price cap applies to 3G as for GPRS. Could anyone shed any light please? Regards James. >When i rang Virgin to ask for the PAC code they asked me why i was >leaving the Virgin network. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Needless to say i wasn't offered a deal from Three to beat the Three >deal! £5.12 a MB !!!! Going back a few years to the time I used to use my Nokia 6210 for data, dialling up to my ISP or back to my home PC. I connected at 9600 bps and occasionally at 14400bps 1MB for the sake of this calculation being 1,000,000 bytes Assume ten bits sent per byte of data so 1,000,000 bytes is 10,000,000 bits 10,000,000 its over a 9600 bps link takes 1041.6 seconds or 17.36 minutes. Round this up and the £1 per megabyte equates to around 5.5p per minute. Not really that much of a bargain is it :) -- >>When i rang Virgin to ask for the PAC code they asked me why i was >>leaving the Virgin network. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >Not really that much of a bargain is it :) Personally, I can't see how anyone can think, in their wildest dreams, that £1/MB is good value. It is a rip off! They have to pay back their 3G licence fee somehow I suppose but I won't be helping them at what I see as vastly inflated data prices. The T-mobile and '3' monthly deals aren't so bad but what I've seen of Vodafone's offering is crap. --- Remove 'no_spam_' from email address. --- |
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