Payg Gprs?

Hi

I need occasional access to the internet whilst caravanning. At present I
achieve this via a gprs card for my laptop and an O2 data5 contract. This
works well from a technical point of view, I can almost always get a signal,
the speed is reasonable and I can access my company's VPN. The drawback is
cost - I need to pay around £10 per month for a service I use 2 or 3 times a
year - plus when I do use it I always end up paying for extra MBytes.

Does anyone have a view on what would be a better option? Ideally I'd like a
payg gprs service, but I haven't managed to find one so far. 3G doesn't have
the coverage and seems too expensive, and gsm is too slow (and expensive).

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Jeff

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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 14:23:40 -0000, "Jeff"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I need occasional access to the internet whilst caravanning. At present I
>achieve this via a gprs card for my laptop and an O2 data5 contract. This
>works well from a technical point of view, I can almost always get a signal,
>the speed is reasonable and I can access my company's VPN. The drawback is
>cost - I need to pay around £10 per month for a service I use 2 or 3 times a
>year - plus when I do use it I always end up paying for extra MBytes.
>
>Does anyone have a view on what would be a better option? Ideally I'd like a
>payg gprs service, but I haven't managed to find one so far. 3G doesn't have
>the coverage and seems too expensive, and gsm is too slow (and expensive).
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks
>Jeff
>


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Hello,

I'm looking for PAYG GPRS as well, currently using O2, Web & Walk
option, which does not allow POP3 access.

I can't see any mention of the £1 access on the Orange site:
http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/payasy...ans?WT.svl=407

What's the tariff / option called?

David

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for PAYG GPRS as well, currently using O2, Web & Walk
> option, which does not allow POP3 access.
>
> I can't see any mention of the £1 access on the Orange site:
> http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/payasy...ans?WT.svl=407
>
> What's the tariff / option called?
>
> David
>
Mentioned here:-
http://www1.orange.co.uk/service_pla..._overview.html

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[email protected] writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for PAYG GPRS as well, currently using O2, Web & Walk
> option, which does not allow POP3 access.
>
> I can't see any mention of the £1 access on the Orange site:
> http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/payasy...ans?WT.svl=407
>
> What's the tariff / option called?
>
Its a bolt on to PAYG, you buy it when you need it.

"Phil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:upsc1ymjd.fsf@GLKD2485705...
> Its a bolt on to PAYG, you buy it when you need it.
>

T-Mobile also have a similar offering sold as capped at £1.00 web n walk See
http://tinyurl.com/6dby5
for details

Paul

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:44:54 GMT, Paul G <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Phil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:upsc1ymjd.fsf@GLKD2485705...
>> Its a bolt on to PAYG, you buy it when you need it.
>>
>
>T-Mobile also have a similar offering sold as capped at £1.00 web n walk See
>http://tinyurl.com/6dby5
>for details

IIRC the T-Mobile offering specifically excludes use as a modem from a
computer, the Orange offering has no such limitation.

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