Guest realistik Posted June 1, 2003 Report Posted June 1, 2003 I am a little confused as to how WAP GPRS is charged on O2 PAYG since the connection is over GPRS therefore usually charged by the data amount. Cheers Gaz
Guest jo12 Posted June 2, 2003 Report Posted June 2, 2003 o2 does not support GPRS on pay as you go, ive asked as im using one as well
Guest GSM Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 O2 GPRS IS available on pay as you go m8 as I am using GPRS on pay as you go!
Guest jo12 Posted June 4, 2003 Report Posted June 4, 2003 i phoned and asked o2 to enable my gprs and was told that they did not support gprs on pay as you talk, so who is telling the truth, i would like to no myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guest martin Posted June 4, 2003 Report Posted June 4, 2003 i phoned and asked o2 to enable my gprs and was told that they did not support gprs on pay as you talk, so who is telling the truth, i would like to no myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O2 support GPRS for PAYG but this is only for WAP using APN payandgo.o2.co.uk. What O2 are probably trying to say is that with PAYG they do not support GPRS for internet software. This means you don't get full web access (HTML pages) using GPRS. Mobile operators usually see Internet and WAP as two different services. WAP is not a physical data link, WAP is software that requires a physical data link hence WAP over 9.6K GSM connection or WAP over GPRS. :lol:
Guest realistik Posted June 4, 2003 Report Posted June 4, 2003 O2 support GPRS for PAYG but this is only for WAP using APN payandgo.o2.co.uk. What O2 are probably trying to say is that with PAYG they do not support GPRS for internet software. This means you don't get full web access (HTML pages) using GPRS. Mobile operators usually see Internet and WAP as two different services. WAP is not a physical data link, WAP is software that requires a physical data link hence WAP over 9.6K GSM connection or WAP over GPRS. This all said and done, how is the WAP over GPRS charged? Gaz
Guest martin Posted June 5, 2003 Report Posted June 5, 2003 This all said and done, how is the WAP over GPRS charged? GPRS is a packet switched network and therefore charging is based only on the amount of data (packets) transfered. Before you can transfer data across the GPRS network the phone will contact the GPRS serving node and request an active PDP session which when activated is indicated by the small G. I think the longest you can keep an idle session open is 10mins (set on the phone) before it is released. You are not charged for the length of time you have an active session but only for the amount of data that is transferred during it. With the GPRS network you have what is called an 'always on' connection but this does not mean that you are always allocated GPRS resource for which you would be charged. There is no need to connect and disconnect to the GPRS network as you would the GSM network because you are not allocated any dedicated resource where you are in control of the data transfer. Packet controllers takes reponsibility for all data transfer accross the GPRS network. Does that help or have I made it worse :lol:
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