Guest mattscholey Posted September 10, 2003 Report Posted September 10, 2003 Hi, Anyone know how much it costs to connect to the Internet on O2 Pay & Go, wheather GPRS or CSD, because I've heard that it's free! If your on O2 PAYG, what tariff are you on, and how much does it cost you for internet access? Thanks, Matt
Guest hellboundpeanut Posted September 10, 2003 Report Posted September 10, 2003 hey , im on o2 geinie ..payg , which is more expensive than i like :wink: hehe, i get 300 free wap mins a month by topping up £10 , they seem to cover gprs time awell ( how odd! ) there is a thread on the details you need to input , do a search cheers HbP
Guest jamzi Posted September 10, 2003 Report Posted September 10, 2003 I use a genie sim too but have never been charged for gprs or csd mate! I do get charged for mms though :) which is s*** cause 9 out of 10 times the mms doesnt reach the person!!!
Guest hellboundpeanut Posted September 10, 2003 Report Posted September 10, 2003 hey! thats not cool :wink: , but seriously are you using the settings posted on modaco ? dont think itd make much of a difference, are you on the payg geine where you have to top up £10 a month ? cheers HbP
Guest jamzi Posted September 11, 2003 Report Posted September 11, 2003 yeah mate using the settings off here and im on payg genie. As long as i top up £10 a month i get 300 free txts and unlimited free csd, and by the looks of it unlimited gprs so far!!
Guest agent.m Posted September 11, 2003 Report Posted September 11, 2003 hi not to be stupid but am i right in saying that if i hook up the gprs settings to my phone i`ll have it for free?? gonna have to try it soon.
Guest hellboundpeanut Posted September 11, 2003 Report Posted September 11, 2003 this is crazy! i thought it was 300 free txts and 300 free wap mins! just read the tarrif on the site says nothing about online.. . im gonna leave my gprs on for a while - se eif my cred goes down ... HbP
Guest hellboundpeanut Posted September 11, 2003 Report Posted September 11, 2003 ok , just logged on , and *trying* to sign into messenger ... its been really slow since the eurotel update ... i was really looking foward to 1.6 too -- aw well! anyway . ill leave it for 20 odd mins and see. HbP
Guest hellboundpeanut Posted September 11, 2003 Report Posted September 11, 2003 Online Pay As You Go Talkalot - Handset Tariff Monthly subscription £10 min top up Included every month Free call minutes - Free messages 300 text Free WAP minutes 300 Call charges Fixed line & O2 Mobiles, Weekends:0-3mins/>3mins 25p/2p Fixed line & O2 Mobiles, Mon-Fri:0-3mins/>3mins 25p/5p Other mobiles 40p Text per msg / WAP per min 10p Media Messages 35p Telephone customer services 50p/minute Online Services (eCare) Free is the tarrif and after the 300 it seems to cost an arm and a leg! i was just trying to connect to Modaco and it cost me 20p and i didnt even get to connect. maybe you havent used your 300 free mins? HbP
Guest mattscholey Posted September 11, 2003 Report Posted September 11, 2003 Thank-you for all your quick responses, The genie tariff you talk about seem to be the same as the new O2 Online Talkalot. After what you've all said, I think it might be a good investment to buy an O2 SIM card, and unlock my phone. So to summarise - do you get 300 free CSD minutes, which you can use to connect to the internet each month? Is GPRS free for you? And how much does it cost, and is it any less reliable/fast, after those 300 minutes have been used up? Matt
Guest hellboundpeanut Posted September 11, 2003 Report Posted September 11, 2003 yeah , being able to connect to gprs is free i gues.. :? , but connecting to the net - csd, is covered by your 300 free wap minutes. after that it seems to be as reliable as before, just costs money! i couldnt tell you how much per min or per meg , youd have to talk to o2 to find that one out.. HbP
Guest m660xyg Posted September 11, 2003 Report Posted September 11, 2003 you have to connect to the net using csd though i think, so that means using your 300 mins up...
Guest mattscholey Posted September 12, 2003 Report Posted September 12, 2003 So GPRS isn't free then? O2 have told me on previous calls that Mobile Internet would be at standard call cost. However they appear to be even more useless than Orange, as they told me that Internet wasn't included in the free WAP minutes. I'll phone them up one more time to try and find out GPRS costs. I'll try and remember to post what they tell me, for the information of anyone else, wanting to make huge savings by changing to O2 PAYG. Matt
Guest hellboundpeanut Posted September 12, 2003 Report Posted September 12, 2003 to put it bluntly o2 customer care IS useless. i called 4 times about gprs when i couldnt get it running - i got 4 difefrent answers , conisting of. . "no" "i'll check with my supervisor, please hang up" "try our technical department at ..." (when it turns out the number given wasnt even a phone number!) and finally... "yes you can, but i cant tell you the settings. Sorry." this has put my value on o2 customer care so low i should just call orange :wink: , theyll help me as much as o2 did. sorry to anyone who works at o2 customer care! i know there are some lovely people there... HbP
Guest mattscholey Posted September 12, 2003 Report Posted September 12, 2003 Just phoned up O2 about it, and this man was actually very helpful. When I told him my phone was the SPV E100, he said he knew the one, and once he knew that my phone could access the internet, he told me it was included. So you get 300 WAP minutes a month, and when O2 say WAP (unlike Orange) that includes the Internet, so get 300 Internet minutes a month. And once thats used up then it's 10p a minute for dial-up internet (same as Orange actually). He didn't seem to know about GPRS. He said I could get it as a bolt-on, but suggested it might cost something like £10/MB (this was a vague guess, but O2 PAYG GPRS certainly won't be worth leaving your Orange contract for). 300 texts a month, 300 net minutes a month, MMS 35p instead of 40p on Orange, no contract - just £10 top-up each month if you want to benefit from the free minutes. All with just a one off payment of £9.99 for an O2 SIM card, and of course I'll have to unlock my phone. Conclusion - I think it's worth changing. Just for your information this is all on the tariff: O2 Online Pay As You Go Talkalot. If you want to chat to O2 before you get their SIM card, then call 0870 225 7879 (unless you want to pay 50p/min for their customer services). Matt
Guest Lordsmiff Posted September 12, 2003 Report Posted September 12, 2003 Customer service (or lack, thereof) was the reason I dropped O2 like a stone and headed back to Orange (I'm sorry Orange for ever leaving, please forgive me - it was the shiny new phones that you didn't do wot did it ;-) ) Anyway, that won't be happening again - I'll be keeping my SPV for a good while yet :) T.
Guest cold_fusion Posted October 9, 2003 Report Posted October 9, 2003 Hey, I've recently joined O2 with their 300 txts/wap mins pay as you go sim card and just wondered if you could clear a few things up? I've got the wap/gprs settings from the big gprs thread and i can connect to the internet via the csd connection. How can I do this through the gprs connection as you're saying that also seems to be free. I've changed the internet connection to gprs but doesn't connect. Is the gprs just for wap sites and not the actual net? a v simple explanation would be greatly apprciated as im a noob! ;) Cheers! Gaz
Guest martin Posted October 9, 2003 Report Posted October 9, 2003 yep, On the O2 prepaid SIM you only have WAP over GPRS :cry: GPRS Internet access needs APN mobile.o2.co.uk which you can only request on a contract SIM. At least you still have the (9.6K :evil: ) GSM dialup for the internet connection.
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