Orange to offer PC GPRS and £25 all you can eat from 1st Nov

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

Orange have confirmed to me today that the Mobile Office Connect PC Card, as shown here, will be available to personal customers in the UK from the 1st November on new connections and upgrades.

Pretty darned cool, but even better than that, when you buy the card before March 2004, you can sign up for flat rate GPRS for the card for only £25 per month (subject to an AUP of course).

Great news!

I personally will sign up for this and SIM swap between the card and my SPV I think, fantastic!

The above page also talks about a Wireless LAN compatible version of the card (made by Ericsson)... even better! :)

You can read more about the GC75 card here, or the Wireless LAN enabled GC79 here!

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[Guest nickcornaglia]

Seems ATT in the US (Home of the Motorola Smartphone) is carrying the same thing as well. (Lost the link)

[Guest goinnuts]

suppose i should buy a laptop aswell :wink: flat rate :twisted:

[Guest Crispy]

OMG, Flat rate wireless internet ... is that a dream come true or what?!? ... and a Combined with Wireless LAN! ... OMG! :)

[Guest mattscholey]

Do we have to buy the PC card to take advantage of this, or can we just add it to our current service plan? If not, then the problem with your plan Paul, is that when you buy a PC card you don't have a voice plan on that SIM (as far as I know, please correct me if I'm wrong).

Matt

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

You have to buy the card...

I suspect you can also have a voice plan on the SIM?

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[Guest goinnuts]

yes you can.

[Guest mattscholey]

They're not cheap though PC cards. Looking at the Sony Ericson GC75 on orange.co.uk it says £99.99 on Pay Monthly - thats as much as an E100.

Matt

[Guest AJCrowley]

OK, you can use the SPV's internal modem with a laptop anyway, i guess the card must be faster yes ?

Oh, and frankly, considering i'm already slating 30 quid into Oranges pockets every month (60 quid on a bad month, ie every month) another 25 quid is pushing it....

[Guest Saif]

have to agree with you there... My last bill came in at a hundred and something... :'(

will try to get them to give me a price match with the '3' tarriffs.

what would be nice would be £25 a month for flat rate gprs on your standard sim without the need to buy a pcmcia card.... nevermind eh...

[Guest clv101]

Any idea about the Acceptable Use Policy? Can anyone confirm this tariff can be added to an existing voice plan?

[Guest Paul [MVP]]

I think this is consistently using over 100MB.

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[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

I would kill for that card! Currently paying 1ppm for dialup, this would save me a fortune and useable anywhere. Just a shame my piddly student loan can't stretch to £35 a month! hehe

[Guest Coucou]

any chance you could put 2 sims in the spv like you can with nokia 6310?

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest mattscholey]

There was a post saying there was a dual-SIM adaptor on ebay a while ago. But the adaptor cost £35 and you had to cut the SIM cards in half to use it. This doesn't seem to me like a good idea (especially as the SIM card actually remains property of the network) but if you want to give it a go do a Search.

Matt

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

It occured to me the other day that as good as this offer is, wouldn't you expect Orange (or at least one other carrier) to have launched 3G, high speed, services within the next 12 months?

If you buy this now, you're tied to the "dialup" of mobile technology, where in the next 12 months it's more than likely that high-speed mobile data services will become far more widely available. I be inclined to wait for a few months and see how the mobile high speed data progresses before tieing myself up with a GPRS card for 12 months.

Of course, if there isn't going to be anything to match this in the next year and i had £35/month spare i'd snap it up right away :)