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From: Jim on 11 May 2010 03:29 On 2010-05-11, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> Trouble is, with streaming video becoming more and more popular calling >> 750MB 'unlimited' is just a mockery. You coupld probably blow through >> that in a day with iPlayer or YouTube. > > Which is precisely why I think that the game has changed, that people's > requirements have changed in ways of which many of them will be unaware, > and that Ofcom ought to be bearing down on this sloppy stuff. Agreed. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Duncan Kennedy on 11 May 2010 05:56 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote: > > > It also says that > > BT Openzone is available once you sign up to Fon (the BT idea that you > > give over a bit of your broadband connection to Fon members (not > > hotspot > > ones). > > FON is far from BT's idea. I don't think I suggested they did - cetrtainly didn't intend to - but as far as their blurb is concerned you seem to have to be a BT customer to use other BT customers' Home Hub connections > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON > > It wasn't that long ago that the large corporate ISPs like BT were > fighting against FON... Well these days they have been boasting of having a million (?) signed up. > > > > I haven't signed up- although it is all done on a completyely > > different channel to your normal connection so has no effect on your > > bandwidth - they say. > > Wireless bandwidth, perhaps. > At least it doesn't come off your usage. It is said, in the BT groups, that you can actually sign up, gain access rights and then block access without losing access. (For others, just in case, FON and the infamous BT disaster of secret trials of phorm are 2 different things) -- duncank
From: Duncan Kennedy on 11 May 2010 06:34 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity as a new user, does the iPhone download headers > > first - or can it be set to that? I can't find a reference anywhere. > > It would obviously be better not to bring down large emils / files > > unless required. > > It downloads the headers and if the message is reasonably small, the > whole message. If it is large it indicates how much it thinks is left, > and leaves a link for you to click on to download the rest. > > There doesn't appear to be a setting for it Thanks for that - will keep a look out - haven't noticed it yet. > > > > Orange is 750MB/month. Which they call unlimited. > > > I presume they don't speak english. > > > > Indeed - except my agreement - PAYG - seems to say 500MB/month mobile > > data. > > I have nothing against an account that tells you what you get, it is the > use of the word 'unlimited' to mean 'there is a limit' that I find > really irritating. Absolutey. The Advertising Standards Authority had a go at that recently - can't remember the wording but I do remember thinking it didn't go far enough. -- duncank
From: SteveH on 11 May 2010 14:15 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > I don't cane the data on my iPhone - but I do use a fair bit - if I > > didn't use data, I probably wouldn't have bought an iPhone, IYSWIM, as > > they're not actually very good at being a phone. > > I think they are very good at being mini computers. Although having said > that, I don't have any actual issues with it being a phone either. > I am sure that 500MB is probably good for a lot of people, maybe even > most. True - I somehow missed that bit. 500MB is more than enough not to want to switch off email, surely? -- SteveH
From: Jim on 11 May 2010 14:36
SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > I don't cane the data on my iPhone - but I do use a fair bit - if I > > > didn't use data, I probably wouldn't have bought an iPhone, IYSWIM, as > > > they're not actually very good at being a phone. > > > > I think they are very good at being mini computers. Although having said > > that, I don't have any actual issues with it being a phone either. > > I am sure that 500MB is probably good for a lot of people, maybe even > > most. > > True - I somehow missed that bit. > > 500MB is more than enough not to want to switch off email, surely? It's more of a physcological barrier - I know that I would personally always be checking how much data I'd used, lest I incur the wrath of Daylight Robbery Data Charges. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ |