Ten quid mobile broadband
I saw adverts in the Sunday papers for this
http://www.three.co.uk/personal/products_services_/mobile_broadband_/index.omp
It was delivered this morning and it works great. I've gone for the 3GB option as I have two computers. It comes with a mobile number so I can send and receive texts but best of all I can ditch the wireless set-up and don't have all the hassle when I move or go on holiday.
Vodafone have something similar but it's about 40 quid.
Sorry for UK only post but Hutchison are International.
http://www.three.co.uk/personal/products_services_/mobile_broadband_/index.omp
It was delivered this morning and it works great. I've gone for the 3GB option as I have two computers. It comes with a mobile number so I can send and receive texts but best of all I can ditch the wireless set-up and don't have all the hassle when I move or go on holiday.
Vodafone have something similar but it's about 40 quid.
Sorry for UK only post but Hutchison are International.
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I can get by with this and a mobile. My landline can go.
how do you top up?
I've gone for 3Gb per month at ?15 but I notice you can go for casual and pay ?1 per MB. My modem was free. You probably have to buy it with casual. If you click on 'Ask a question" you get a CHAT service and the guy is really helpful. He deals with 25 people at once. Check your postcode coverage first.
The only downer as I see it is if you run over your quota then its a pound an MB, ouch!!.
Otherwise if you want broadband on the move it's excellent.
Hopfully this will wake up the other operators and lower the cost of internet via mobile devices. So that nieve fools like the one I mentioned the other day will not run up 27 mobile bills.
Andrew.
Hmm ?15 for 3GB, if you got that on PAYG that would be ?3000. Thats quite a saving. PAYG is a ripp off though.
These things should have an option to not connect when you go over quota, so you can't inadvertently run up huge bills. All it takes is one background process on your laptop which you forgot to turn off one night, and you inadvertently bankrupt yourself.
If it actually shut you off when you ran over quota, then maybe you'd be stuck without internet access until the next charging period, but at least you wouldn't lose your house.
Yes, I can the secenario. Imagine not turning off your PTP client such as E-Mule!!! :EEK:
If you left that overnight I could see somone waking up to a rather nasty a 30K bill.
i suppose you just have to be carefull, it like those phone contracts where you can keep talking after your credit has run out, its just a scam to bleed you dry.
my eletric meter does that if it goes into credit.
A casual user would be one that does most of their surfing at work but as I see it Windows updates and anti-virus files bump up your usage.
It's getting rid of my landline (£11) and current broadband provider [£18] that are going to get me savings.
oh no, we could have been saving already. :(
i prolly wont be a casual surfer. i wont have to surf at work no more. yay.
I doubt it, mobile internet will never get cheap, as it costs the mobile operator so much bandwidth.
I notice this thing is 3G (alright if you happen to have 3G coverage...) this obviously helps and I don't know how well it will work out, but internet over GSM will always be slow and expensive due the nature of the cell network.
of course if you can get a GSM dialup account paid for by your company then it's great :)
my dad had free mobile internet on his laptop before he retired.
it was vodaphone IIRC, it was a few years back
Intriguing.
My gut feeling tells me that this could be huge (price falls are inevitable should it take off) as it's more practical than having a huge public wifi cloud.
Another part of the industry to watch over 2008, together with cheap UMPCs and solid state storage.
As some UMPCs have USB2 ports (hello Asus Eee - I look forward to getting mine on Friday), this could be really exciting.
The ?1/MB "Casual" rate also intrigues me. I only see the use for mobile broadband for things like checking email and looking up Google Maps. I doubt I'd use more than the 120MB/year which would justify switching to monthly billing.
Hmmm... we're in "toy" territory again... which makes pairing it up with the Asus Eee PC even more appropriate ;)