[smallbeer]

I'm looking at buying a Sony Ericsson P900.

at the moment I only use my phone for the occasional text and if anyone wants to ring me so am on payg.

been looking at the costs and it's looking like

PAYG - around £500 for the phone with thousands of SMS a month but pay for calls.

or

Contract - £25 a month, £199 for the phone with 120 call minutes free, a few SMS and then £4 extra for 3MB or transfer or £8 for 7MB per month.

Do any of you use GPRS by paying as you go? How do the costs work out?

For any of you (contract or not), what do you think your monthly average transfer is?

If anyone's seen any better deals than this let me know. these prices are from Orange direct. I'd prefer to stay with them but open to suggestions.

[Stickman]

Originally Posted by smallbeer

Do any of you use GPRS by paying as you go? How do the costs work out?

M' lady does. She uses some o2 bolt on (as recommended by Sean Bean).
Not sure what it's called or how much it is, but the one on their site gives you 5MB for £4 a month:

http://shop.o2.co.uk/cgi-bin/o2uk/js...es/BoltOns.jsp

[beebolbod]

I work for T-Mobile.

Coverage is shit but prices are attractive.

Vodafone has the best network but they cost more.

Shop around and use those internet sites that promise the world. They usually turn up stupidly good deals.
In my opinion - contract is best.

Pay as you go relies on you being cautious. I'm not and used to spend £70pm whereas the same usage would have set me back half or less on contract.

Also with contract they GIVE you freebies every year. All you have to do is ask. Even if you dont want/need a free phone - ask them, they give it to you and you're happy.

[Mr Fred]

dont trust sean bean.
he cant play footbal and hes fucked fighting orcs.

[Brown]

stay with orange, the rest are cowboys.

gprs is still very slow - i'll read the news on the bbc if i'm bored waiting for a train or summat but usually i forget that i'm waiting for a page to load.

[dan]

Originally Posted by JapanMik

dont trust sean bean.
he cant play footbal and hes fucked fighting orcs.

It also appears that he shall also sonn be outwitted by Nic Cage, while looking for american tresure. Useless.

[Mr Fred]

told you.

[oli]

Vodafone, not o2 fucking gooners

[beebolbod]

Market share...

Vodafone,
Orange,
T-Mob,
O2.

Read into that what you will.
O2 are losing it - they used to be third. Sinking ship methinks.

[Mr Fred]

I just got a new contract with 02.
£25 a month and fuck all text, call charges,

To coin a phrase, what what

[Stickman]

Microsoft have been the market leaders for browsers for a good while now. I wouldn't recommend IE.

[beebolbod]

they're free tho'.

Just my perspective as someone who's been in comms for 12 yrs.

[andrewparker]

Originally Posted by JapanMik

I just got a new contract with 02.
£25 a month and fuck all text, call charges,

To coin a phrase, what what

Moi aussi! Nice new SE K700i too

[Bill Posters]

Originally Posted by beebolbod

Market share...

Vodafone,
Orange,
T-Mob,
O2.

Read into that what you will.
O2 are losing it - they used to be third. Sinking ship methinks.

How do BT measure up?
I know that they're newcomers to the mobile phone business and are playing catch-up, but I'd imagine (presume/hope) that their network must be amongst the soundest of all the players.

[Brown]

Originally Posted by andrewparker

Moi aussi! Nice new SE K700i too

is that text speak?

[andrewparker]

Originally Posted by beebolbod

Market share...

Vodafone,
Orange,
T-Mob,
O2.

Read into that what you will.
O2 are losing it - they used to be third. Sinking ship methinks.

Sounds more impressive than it actually is though. The actual market share figures are only separated by, at most, 2.5%.

The figures I have actually seen say this -

Orange – 26.8%
T-Mobile – 24.6%
Vodafone – 24.4%
O2 – 24.3%

o2 and Orange still have by far the best customer service in my opinion. Vodafone and T-Mobile are sadly lacking in that department.

Oh, and the T-Mobile site doesn't work on Mac so if you work for them you might want to mention that little point

[Bill Posters]

Originally Posted by andrewparker

Oh, and the T-Mobile site doesn't work on Mac so if you work for them you might want to mention that little point

Never had problems with it on my mac.

[Stickman]

Originally Posted by beebolbod

they're free tho'.

Just my perspective as someone who's been in comms for 12 yrs.

Fair enough.

I'm just saying from my perspective - a consumer - I don't care about each company's market share if their deal is best for me.

[andrewparker]

Originally Posted by Bill Posters

Never had problems with it on my mac.

Safari -

Safari can’t open the page “http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/” because it could not load any data from this location.

Camino -

Document: Done

...but nowt there.

IE 5.2.3 - as above

Firefox - as above

Netscape 7.0 -

The document contains no data

Been like this since I started looking for a new deal 6 months ago.

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/

[dan]

looks fine to me...