Cost of surfing the net on a phone?

I use opera mini on my phone. (sony erricson w610i)

Its great for internet. 02 7.50 a month I top up 10 and get 300 free texts, spend 7.50 on internet and use 2.50 on calls.
 
8igdave said:
Was just looking through oranges terms and conditions and it looks like they will charge me for using wi-fi as well? How is this possible. its not their internet im using :S
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They won't charge you for using open, unsecured wi-fi.

There are systems in place that allow you to use secured wifi hotspots (such as BT openzone, although I can't recall specifically if they are on the list) and be billed to your mobile account. That is what the terms and conditions refer to.
 
Dolph said:
They won't charge you for using open, unsecured wi-fi.

There are systems in place that allow you to use secured wifi hotspots (such as BT openzone, although I can't recall specifically if they are on the list) and be billed to your mobile account. That is what the terms and conditions refer to.
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yaeh tahts it, really dont know any thing bout mobiles :)

I may just try get the 500MB package with it as well, but thats now 35 quid a month mmm.
 
with o2 i get 1mb free a month and then they charge me £3 a meg afterwards :(

about to renew my contract so gonna have the unlimited 3g bolt on added :)

MW
 
£1/day is free as far as I'm aware, comes as part of the new contracts. not sure how it works for existing customer, if its automatically started or you have to phone up and ask.
if you mean the bolt-on mr-white means, should be £7.50/month unless he gets it thrown in as a existing customer or goes for a 600mins+ contract.
 
8igdave said:
how much does that bolt on cost?
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Can be free on certain tariffs IIRC we are on the "£35" tariff and get free o2 to o2 calls and free internet. Although we don't pay this due to a retention deal.

On lower tariffs its £7.50 for a bolt on.

Edit : Worked really well then we went away (holiday home booze up/party) over weekend between me + mates used ~3gb and no issues.
 
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8igdave said:
people keep menchencing retention deals but i dont quite get it and google came up wid nothing.
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Basically if you wait until your contract is about to expire and tell your provider that you have seen an amazing offer through another provider (do some research) they will usually beat that offer
 
SuBsTaNcE said:
Basically if you wait until your contract is about to expire and tell your provider that you have seen an amazing offer through another provider (do some research) they will usually beat that offer
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aww ok ty :) So basicaly i just say i have got a real good offer on o2. and then they will just start offerign things. Sounds good :)
 
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T-mobile dont charge more than £1 a day for both contracts and PAYG. 30MB a day "fair use", I've used much more.

On PAYG you can get 5 days for £2.50 as well. Again 30MB a day "fair use".

On contract £7.50 a month 1GB, if its at the beginning of the contract and you agree to 12 months £5 a month for 1GB a month. 1GB is "fair use".
 
How many MB would streeming a film be off the internet onto a phone? Coz i was thinking how cool it would be to be able to do that but i dunno if id get more then 1 film a month in to a 500MB orange thing.
 
8igdave said:
How many MB would streeming a film be off the internet onto a phone? Coz i was thinking how cool it would be to be able to do that but i dunno if id get more then 1 film a month in to a 500MB orange thing.
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Depends on the bitrate of the film. Also, remember that you are constrained by the 3g networks itself. I believe that one hour on bbc iplayer is 175mb.
 
mmm ok thanks, see i was thinking of like being able to watch films from watchmovies (which is closed down now btw so i gues its not against rules to say it lol) on my phone which would be quite cool and if i was on a train etc then i could use their wifi alrigjht to watch it probably. Unless it was slow then id have to use the 3g. One of my mates downloaded somethign at 1MB off his 3g phone today which was pritty impressive so i gues i should be able to streem videos ok.
 
Rather than streaming movies over 3G you'd be better off downloading them at home & sticking them on your uSD card - 2 reasons: 1 you'd need to be in good coverage & an area of limited competing users for the network (each cell can only support a certain amount of traffic shared between it's users - just like wifi in your home across several pcs) for the whole length of the movie; and 2 all the networks state streaming is prohibitted in their t's & c's. If you regularly bust your fair usage cap they'll investegate your behaviour... my 16 GB uSD card can hold over 20 full length movies scaled down for a phone's resolution...
 
mmm ok thanks. See i wasn't sure with orange if it infact means over 500MB i get charged. Also thing is if i download them then its not quite like watch them on the spot sorta thing. I like randomly finding a film and watching it when bored. But yaweh i gues i could put some on anyway.

Intrested to see what kinda games you can do on the HTC HD coz it doesn't have any physical buttons games like AOE 2/3 dont work on it. Serposidly they run fine you just cant input anythin lol.
 
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