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From: Zaz on 11 Mar 2010 13:17
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:47:05 +0000, occassionally-confused(a)nospam.co.uk
wrote:

> One obvious answer is that a "phone" is billed as such when somebody is
> hitting the Voda web portal, or collecting emails from a Voda POP box or
> whatever.
>
> But what if a phone is used as a modem for a laptop?

I'd imagine you have a different SIM for your phone and laptop and they
attract different types of billing.

From: Brian A on 11 Mar 2010 14:22
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:38:25 +0000, Peter wrote:

> Zaz <zaz(a)zaz.zaz> wrote
>
>>On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:47:05 +0000, occassionally-confused(a)nospam.co.uk
>>wrote:
>>
>>> One obvious answer is that a "phone" is billed as such when somebody
>>> is hitting the Voda web portal, or collecting emails from a Voda POP
>>> box or whatever.
>>>
>>> But what if a phone is used as a modem for a laptop?
>>
>>I'd imagine you have a different SIM for your phone and laptop and they
>>attract different types of billing.
>
> Possibly, but both SIMs work for both voice and data..........
>
> T-Mobile do a similar distinction, which seems to be based on a phone
> SIM and a USB-stick SIM. But they cannot explain it either, because both
> work for voice calls too.
I would have thought that they'd be able to tell what browser (user
agent) you are using. Thus, easy to tell whether it's a phone or a
computer.
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From: Paulg0 on 11 Mar 2010 14:24

"Peter" <occassionally-confused(a)nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
news:63eip55bafog1okos1apdk7r59fiejeh0b(a)4ax.com...
>
> Zaz <zaz(a)zaz.zaz> wrote
>
>>On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:47:05 +0000, occassionally-confused(a)nospam.co.uk
>>wrote:
>>
>>> One obvious answer is that a "phone" is billed as such when somebody is
>>> hitting the Voda web portal, or collecting emails from a Voda POP box or
>>> whatever.
>>>
>>> But what if a phone is used as a modem for a laptop?
>>
>>I'd imagine you have a different SIM for your phone and laptop and they
>>attract different types of billing.
>
> Possibly, but both SIMs work for both voice and data..........
>
> T-Mobile do a similar distinction, which seems to be based on a phone
> SIM and a USB-stick SIM. But they cannot explain it either, because
> both work for voice calls too.

As far as i am aware it is based on what APN you use to connect.

Laptop:

APN: Internet
Username: web
Password: web

Phone:
APN: wap.vodafone.co.uk
Username: wap
Password: wap

Paul

From: Jon on 24 Mar 2010 19:02
In article <5f7ip5t9l36e86rjrl9992kjf2lbpt12ji(a)4ax.com>, occassionally-
confused(a)nospam.co.uk says...
> But what if a phone is used as a modem for a laptop?

Deep Packet Inspection.
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Jon
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