Vodafone UK - all change for the Mobile Internet

[slitchfield]

Just announced by Vodafone UK, a brand new Vodafone Live web-squeezing portal (rebranded Google Mobile?), better access to popular webmail accounts and much cheaper data charges for all, effectively including £1 for up to 15MB(!) for prepay customers and £7.50 for 120MB per month for contract customers. The full press release follows...

Read on in the full article.

[Dogmann]

Hi all,

Whilst this service has some nice features it still leaves VodaFone a long way from having competitive Data charges and this is still much more expensive than the services offered by T-Mobile and 3 and shortly Orange. A great idea but still much to expensive to be used IMHO.

Marc

[sirox]

The Vodafone website contradicts this press release. It says that pay-as-you-go customers will pay £2 per MB, there is no mention of the £1/500Kb cap.
Calling their customer service is surely useless, as they can never say for sure how much GPRS is charged.
Does anyone know where the truth is?

[glenneve]

Although Orange have released details of their data packages, these do not seem to be as good as initially stated as this zdnet article highlights:

news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39287353,00.htm

link from coolsmartphone.com

Cheers!

[jah]

More info on T-mobile (as Dogmann mentioned above). UKP7.50 per month for an existing mobile phone contract for 1GB of data and UKP20 per month for a PCMCIA card solution with no limit on data. I never manage to use more than 400MB myself per month on T-mobile.

[neilhoskins]

T-mobile pay-as-you-go is capped at £1 per day subject to fair use.

[dhevans_6]

When are O2 going to wake up and see how far they're behind? I've just changed my plan (still got too long on the contract) to a new one which gives me £10 for 20mb whoo hoo...
They're going to lose a fair number of customers if they don't pull their socks up...

Have to agree on T-mobile being excellent (in this regard).

It is almost annoying. I'm looking forward to my next phone purchase (prob. E90) and knowing that T-Mobile is the only contract option that is even worth looking at is kind of limiting. What happened to Competition.

Someone mentioned 3. What do they offer with regard to data. Did not see anything obvious on there website ?

Zuber

[Stezos]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Someone mentioned 3. What do they offer with regard to data. Did not see anything obvious on there website ?

Zuber

3 charge £5 a month for their internet package which is called x-series, it comes with a fair use policy of 1gig plus on top of that if you have a compatable phone you get 5000 minutes skype to skype phones calls plus other things like msn etc.

[Dogmann]

Hi all,

Yes those prices are for contract customers on either a pay as you use or a monthly deal for Data. If you are a Pay as you Go customer it is indeed £2 per MB which is really outrageous and the same price for contract customers once you have used up your 120mb. So sad that they claimed they were matching T-Mobile and 3 when the reality isn't even close.

As Mobile Data speeds increase thanks to HSDPA and our devices spec's continue to improve i can only see huge churn of users ahead for both Voda and 02 and really don't understand what they are playing at.

Marc