The Pay-As-You-Go data revival continues

[slitchfield]

Following Vodafone's lead, Orange has now brought in their own PAYG mobile data changes, you can now choose between daily browsing for £1, monthly and weekend browsing for £5, or monthly anytime browsing for £8. Pretty impressive, I think mobile data on high end phones and smartphones is going to take off in a big way in 2007.

Read on in the full article.

The new charges are not just for PAYG customers, either.

Contract customers can have "unlimited" browsing for GBP1 a day, or GBP8 per month. This effectively matches T-Mobile's Web'n'Walk offering.

The new deals come into effect in June.

R

[nechbi]

It still doesn't match 3 - who are charging £5 for unlimited internet with their X-Series

[krisse]

"who are charging �5 for unlimited internet with their X-Series"

Is that really unlimited though? I thought they had a bandwidth limit for each month?

All the options discussed here - Orange, T-Mobile, 3 - have a 1GB/month limit, as do most network operators. It's effectively unlimited unless you're using your phone as a modem for a PC.

[raid517]

Well 1GB might seem a lot - but what if you use a service like Orb to stream some movies or Videos from your local PC to your phone?

1GB would quickly evaporate.

It's unlimited if all you do is look at web pages (or porn), neither of which I tend to do very often anyway.

For me the web is all about streaming media.

That's all that really interests me.