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From: Martin Jay on 17 Mar 2010 17:58
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:49 -0000, "DaveB"
<no_one_home(a)no_one_home.co.uk> wrote:
>"Martin Jay" <martin(a)spam-free.org.uk> wrote in message
>news:821.1268845833.20100317(a)spam-free.org.uk...

>>"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/genericContent.do?contentId=payasyougo.tariff.howdoi.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. :)
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From: Steve Terry on 17 Mar 2010 18:32
"Martin Jay" <martin(a)spam-free.org.uk> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:49 -0000, "DaveB"
> <no_one_home(a)no_one_home.co.uk> wrote:
>>"Martin Jay" <martin(a)spam-free.org.uk> wrote in message
>>news:821.1268845833.20100317(a)spam-free.org.uk...
>
>>>"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/genericContent.do?contentId=payasyougo.tariff.howdoi.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




From: Bob Eager on 17 Mar 2010 19:46
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!

--
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http://www.mirrorservice.org

From: donkeydave on 17 Mar 2010 21:12

"Steve Terry" <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote in message
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> 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)


From: Steve Terry on 17 Mar 2010 22:45
"donkeydave" <000(a)000.00> wrote in message
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> "Steve Terry" <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote in message
> news:hnrlai$9sd$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>> 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


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