Guest Firaas Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 After just having had our T-Mobile contracts activated, the first thing I did was ring them up to ask about GPRS... I was told that they had a new structure, which allowed for 100mb for just £10/month - incredible! This has now been officially confirmed - great alternative for when Orange decide to drop unlimited, eh? T-Mobile have now launched their GPRS internet service with a very competitive flat charge of £10/month with a 100MB fair-use limit on data use. This is more than enough data for most users of mobile Internet and removes any risk of overspend, providing a viable alternative to subscribing to a dial-up home Internet connection.
Guest Simon Desser Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 Nice one :!: This is just what we need, once one network moves in the right direction, then the others are likely to follw suit :)
Guest Matt Whitfield Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 Errrrr, that.... um, ROCKS!!!! Jeez, looks like T-Mobile had better sort a decent smartphone out eh? Or I guess SIM unlocking the SPV, cancelling the Orange contract, setting up a T-Mobile contract with throw away phone and using it's SIM could solve the problem... :-D
Guest Matt Whitfield Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 Simon, let's hope Orange get the hint eh! ;-)
Guest Simon Desser Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 Yep! Let's hope they get the hint! Over to you Paul :wink: (And any Orange employees who might be looking)
Guest Firaas Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 BTW for the info of everyone here, this can be activated with any new voice/data pack when you go into a T-Mobile retail shop/dealer, and expires in October. However, the dealer we dealt with informed us that T-Mobile then plan to introduce a bundle which is significantly cheaper than the other networks... The plan is called "Instant E-mail". It allows for "push email" on the P800, Blackberry, 3650 and 7650 - whereby email gets delivered to your phone automatically. E-mail is totally free and unlimited, and you get 100mb of internet in addition to that! I'm not sure what the T-Mobile GPRS service - or Push Email (Infowave Symmetry) is like, but I'll know when I get my P800 this evening :)
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 So this is a time limited offer, or do you just have to sign up by October? P
Guest Firaas Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 "]So this is a time limited offer, or do you just have to sign up by October? Sign up by September, 100mb internet until October - not sure of their plans after that. The offer is also available in Germany and the USA, so it seems they're pushing for GPRS usage...
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 Hmmmm, not perfect tho, since it is a time limited offer (like Orange's!). Even I might be tempted to sign up otherwise :) I have mailed by contacts in Orange to once again try and get an official response re: GPRS charging... P
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 Can't find this on the T-Mobile site? P
Guest davy Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 here, http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/Dispatcher?menui...id=phones_ia_ib
Guest Firaas Posted June 26, 2003 Report Posted June 26, 2003 "]Can't find this on the T-Mobile site? P It's really an in-store thing, thus the site having such little info about it. Even the customer service staff are very unclued up about it... Ring up any dealership though, they'll give you the facts :)
Guest dan Posted June 27, 2003 Report Posted June 27, 2003 Under the Orange tariff match policy couldn't we just change to the Tmobile tariff and demand the GPRS access at the T Mobile rate? Dan
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted June 27, 2003 Report Posted June 27, 2003 No, since it's a promotional tarriff. P
Guest morpheus2702 Posted June 27, 2003 Report Posted June 27, 2003 I was a late-comer to the party so I missed out on the original Orange £6 promotion. Seriously, how good was that offer? Given the bias the phone has towards data services, I think they were fcuking stupid to discontinue it, especially now T-Mobile have come up with this.
Guest Simon Desser Posted June 27, 2003 Report Posted June 27, 2003 I was a late-comer to the party so I missed out on the original Orange £6 promotion. Seriously, how good was that offer? I was lucky enough to get my SPV in mid November, and I'm still on the promo till mid July, which means I've enjoyed 8 months of "unlimited" use :) The offer (IMO) is excellent, it means you can send & receive emails as often as you like, send photo attachments etc. etc. and browse the internet as much as you like (restricted only by the phone's capabilities) You were supposed to stick to a 10mb limit, but lots of people regularly ran up 50mb or more, without any problems ;)
Guest morpheus2702 Posted June 27, 2003 Report Posted June 27, 2003 And T-Mobile don't even have a own-brand smartphone to promote in the UK. They HAVE to do something now!!!
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