Question about tmobiles £1 web browsing.

Energize · 4 Aug 2006 at 01:25

Is this service p&g and you can just pay £1 for a particular day, or do you need a contract?

malolo · 4 Aug 2006 at 10:37

From T-Mobile website:

£1 maximum daily charge applies to Mates Rates, Everyone and Text Appeal customers. Charges of 0.73p per KB applies until £1 per day (midnight to midnight) is spent.

It's a pay as you go deal so no you don't need a contract.

Morba · 4 Aug 2006 at 11:36

yep, its a payg only deal. people cant say that t-mob does nothing for payg customers!
also there is payg upgrades now (in certain circumstances)

Energize · 4 Aug 2006 at 18:11

Thats excellent then, O2 charge £3 a MB their company is such a joke, luckily I managed to cancel my contract with them.

b0rn2sk8 · 4 Aug 2006 at 21:10

Same with orange, their data charges are a joke.

benjo · 4 Aug 2006 at 21:16

With orange, 1MB for £8 when i go abroad :eek:

that's in europe aswell!

Efaws · 5 Aug 2006 at 19:12

is there a limit on how many MB's you can transfer?

you could just bluetooth your phone to a laptop and use it as a cheapo wireless connection all day downloading otherwise

malolo · 5 Aug 2006 at 20:02

Fair use policy applies. To ensure a high quality of service for all our customers, the web 'n' walk service is not to be used for other activities such as (but not limited to): modem access for computers, internet based video/audio streaming services, peer to peer file sharing, internet based video downloads and internet based telephony. If such use is detected, notice may be given, after which network protection controls may be applied which will result in a reduced speed of transmission.

Energize · 5 Aug 2006 at 20:16

Meh if you use encryption they can't detect it.

sean · 5 Aug 2006 at 23:09

I'd say they're most likely to packet-shape your connection if they see encrypted connections coming from your phone all day

Orange have / had a similar deal and I'm tempted to pick up a few PAYG sims if I can find a cheap phone able to work as a bluetooth or IR modem.

Dolph · 5 Aug 2006 at 23:16

b0rn2sk8 said:
Same with orange, their data charges are a joke.

You do realise Orange do exactly the same £1 per day for unlimted browsing on PAYG, and have done for several months

Energize · 5 Aug 2006 at 23:34

sean said:
I'd say they're most likely to packet-shape your connection if they see encrypted connections coming from your phone all day

Orange have / had a similar deal and I'm tempted to pick up a few PAYG sims if I can find a cheap phone able to work as a bluetooth or IR modem.

Encryption of the file headers and vpn makes it hard to implement packet shaping.

Dolph · 6 Aug 2006 at 00:05

Energize said:
Encryption of the file headers and vpn makes it hard to implement packet shaping.

It's just a shame that the method for identifying modem or streaming usage, as opposed to browsing usage, is so much simpler than something you could hide that way

Energize · 6 Aug 2006 at 00:07

A lot of people have had sucess using encryption with bittorrents over port 80. In fact utorrent and azerus have implemented encryption of the file headers into their new betas and from what I've heard vpn makes it unregonizeable, encrypted or not.