Some years ago I was with Orange PAYG, and ocasionally used their GPRS for
access to the web and email. Problem is it was a complete rip off. Are
Orange still a rip off for GPRS, or have they become better value these
days? I am considering using them again, but only when I cannot get into
the three network. How much are their costs these days for GPRS on PAYG?

Thanks

donkeydave wrote:
Some years ago I was with Orange PAYG, and ocasionally used their GPRS for
access to the web and email. Problem is it was a complete rip off. Are
Orange still a rip off for GPRS, or have they become better value these
days? I am considering using them again, but only when I cannot get into
the three network. How much are their costs these days for GPRS on PAYG?

Thanks


looks at latest bill
0.8233 megabytes cost £2.102...obviously I only use it for data in an emergency.

--
Bill Coombes

"bcoombes" bcoombes@orangedotnet wrote in message
o.uk...
donkeydave wrote:
Some years ago I was with Orange PAYG, and ocasionally used their GPRS
for
access to the web and email. Problem is it was a complete rip off. Are
Orange still a rip off for GPRS, or have they become better value these
days? I am considering using them again, but only when I cannot get
into
the three network. How much are their costs these days for GPRS on
PAYG?

Thanks


looks at latest bill
0.8233 megabytes cost £2.102...obviously I only use it for data in an
emergency.

--
Bill Coombes

Thanks for that. Did I hear PAYG on Virgin mobile is more reasonable?

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:27:41 -0000, "donkeydave" wrote:

Thanks for that. Did I hear PAYG on Virgin mobile is more reasonable?

"Unlimited web access subject to a fair use policy of 25MB per day
(for 30p) or 1GB per month (for £20 top up)." See
http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/genericContent.do?contentId=payasyougo.our.tariff. shop.sm285.

IIRC the charges for going over the limits are quite high, but I can't
locate them on their website at the moment.
--
Martin Jay
Back the Ban: http://www.backtheban.com/
League Against Cruel Sports: http://www.league.org.uk/

"Martin Jay" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:27:41 -0000, "donkeydave" wrote:

Thanks for that. Did I hear PAYG on Virgin mobile is more reasonable?

"Unlimited web access subject to a fair use policy of 25MB per day
(for 30p) or 1GB per month (for £20 top up)." See
http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/genericContent.do?contentId=payasyougo.our.tariff. shop.sm285.

IIRC the charges for going over the limits are quite high, but I can't
locate them on their website at the moment.
--

£2 per MB.
http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/gener...howd oi.sm286

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:49 -0000, "DaveB"
wrote:
"Martin Jay" wrote in message
...

"Unlimited web access subject to a fair use policy of 25MB per day
(for 30p) or 1GB per month (for £20 top up)." See
http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/genericContent.do?contentId=payasyougo.our.tariff. shop.sm285.

IIRC the charges for going over the limits are quite high, but I can't
locate them on their website at the moment.

£2 per MB.
http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/gener...howd oi.sm286

That's pretty hefty. If I hadn't bothered to look it up, previously,
I would have expected to be charged at most 30p for each 25MByte
increment.

Having said that, I don't think I've ever gone over about 12MBytes in
a day of what I consider pretty heavy Internet browsing from my
handset... email, web pages, Google Maps and IM.

By the way, adult content blocking is set to on by default, so I
wonder what they mean by "unlimited?" Oh, perhaps I should add that I
know this because eBuddy IM is block because of it.
--
Martin Jay
Back the Ban: http://www.backtheban.com/
League Against Cruel Sports: http://www.league.org.uk/

"Martin Jay" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:49 -0000, "DaveB"
wrote:
"Martin Jay" wrote in message
...

"Unlimited web access subject to a fair use policy of 25MB per day
(for 30p) or 1GB per month (for £20 top up)." See
http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/genericContent.do?contentId=payasyougo.our.tariff. shop.sm285.

IIRC the charges for going over the limits are quite high, but I can't
locate them on their website at the moment.

£2 per MB.
http://www.virginmobile.com/vm/gener...howd oi.sm286

That's pretty hefty. If I hadn't bothered to look it up, previously,
I would have expected to be charged at most 30p for each 25MByte
increment.

Having said that, I don't think I've ever gone over about 12MBytes in
a day of what I consider pretty heavy Internet browsing from my
handset... email, web pages, Google Maps and IM.


This week i've been playing with Google Maps street views on my
Skype S2 on 3pay, not cost me a penny as it comes out of the
inclusive 150Mb

Steve Terry
--
Get a free Three 3pay Sim with £2 bonus after £10 top up
http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:32:41 +0000, Steve Terry wrote:

This week i've been playing with Google Maps street views on my Skype S2
on 3pay, not cost me a penny as it comes out of the inclusive 150Mb

My son has been doing the same. He's on the Internet Texter tariff; 1GB/
month, plus 3000 texts, 2000 3-3 minutes and 75 other minutes. Just about
sufficient for him!

--
Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org

"Steve Terry" wrote in message
...
This week i've been playing with Google Maps street views on my
Skype S2 on 3pay, not cost me a penny as it comes out of the
inclusive 150Mb

Steve Terry
--
Get a free Three 3pay Sim with £2 bonus after £10 top up
http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276

I would do the same Steve, but my handset wont do HSDPA or 3G and I was told
I cannot use 3 on it as they will cut me off????????????
The handset is an HTC XDA Orbit (the mark 1)

"donkeydave" wrote in message
...
"Steve Terry" wrote in message
...
This week i've been playing with Google Maps street views on my
Skype S2 on 3pay, not cost me a penny as it comes out of the
inclusive 150Mb
Steve Terry

I would do the same Steve, but my handset wont do HSDPA or 3G
and I was told I cannot use 3 on it as they will cut me off????????????
The handset is an HTC XDA Orbit (the mark 1)


That's right XDA Orbit is not 3g, which would force it to always roam
on Orange 2g costing 3 money when you use it, also 2g GPRS
data speeds are too slow to be of use.

You need a 3g phone

Steve Terry
--
Get a free Three 3pay Sim with £2 bonus after £10 top up
http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276