Mobile phone networks - S/D

orange does match any other network's plan, although they don't advertise that much. probably best to figure out what your friends are on and get the same one?

orange's page with all the other plans on it is kind of hard to find. it's at http://www.orange.co.uk/cgi-bin/ovp/costs.pl

I'm on O2/BT, but I wouldn't reccomend them cause they keep changing my service plan and never tell me. Oh, and they spam me all the time with useless junk texts. bleurgh.

I DISrecommend T-Mobile to the power of abt nine-zillin though.

Is Vodafone any good?

I love it when you go to a foreign country BTW and there is an invisible war for the soul of your mobile so it changes operators about three times a day!

They're all much of a muchness. See who's offering the best special offer and go for that. And come back to us soon and ask us which handset you should get.

Spent £20 on their text saver pack a few weeks back (apparently unusual for operators to offer deals like this to pay-as-you-goers?) = £5 call credit plus five free texts a day for a year.

Never a problem with reception but then I don't go Zone 7 orienteering or anything.

FIVE TEXTS A DAY FOR A YEAR FOR ONLY £15. That's Orange sense. I wuv Orange.

Airtel (Spanish Vodafone) send you nice spammy texts as soon as you turn your phone on in Spain. This is neither here nor there though. Go for Orange. I would now, I think.

Grrrr... I'm not looking forward to becoming a Cingular customer by default. I've never really had any problems with AT&T.

I'm still thinking of T-Mobile though

TMobile is fab, as reception is clear, $39.99 gives you 600 Whenever min, plus nationwide roaming.

(Chris, beware of the $35 one-time fee that will be slapped on you for changing carriers---if you choose to.)

any tips or recommendations?

i see, they are doing the offpeak ones with 500 free texts a month...for life

750 minutes
evening/weekend
any network
500 txts

for £20

i rang o2 to get my pac number, and they said, what are t-mobile offering? we can better it, so, now im staying with o2, for the following package

500 minutes
ANYIME
ANY NETWORK
300 txts

for £20!! 500-anytime-£20!!! this is...really good right?

theyre giving me a 2mpixel cameraphone, the sony ericcsson d610i, which looks pretty good too

is this as good, as i think it is?

I went into a telephone shop today and had a conversation about mobile phones. I was told that I could get one for £15 per month with various bells & whistles. It was with a network called '3' or '3G'. Does anyone recommend or disdain this name? Or any other network?

Does anyone think I might be advised to buy a mobile phone and not sign a monthly deal for using it?

I should read the thread anyway, to glean its findings.

I bought an iPod this week, so apparently many things are possible.

How regularly are you actually going to use it?

That's a good question, DC. I guess not that often. It's not like I make a lot of phone calls as it is. I suppose if I had one, I might find myself calling people while on the way to meet them, and the like? But not just for fun, I hope.

One thing I asked in the shop: would I get less reception or signal with this network? The lady told me that such problems were a thing of the past - the past when this thread happened, I suppose.

One thing I would want to know: if I had a mobile telephone, could I use it in another country? It is when I go to one that I feel most in need of a mobile!

3 and 3G are not the same thing the pinefox

3 is a company or network, and 3G is a...well, 'type' of mobile/network. I would imagine that most mobiles are 3G now though I am not sure.

Whether you should sign a monthly deal or not really depends on what your usage is likely to be. Would this phone be likely to replace your landline?

You can use it in another country but it can be expensive. If it is the same country and you are making repeat visits it can be worth getting a mobile in that country. For example if it is the USA you can get a mobile phone there with a US number and only use it when you are there

Replace it! well, if I did that, I couldn't have the www connection, could I? or maybe I could. It would seem drastic, anyway, to have no landline. No, I don't think I would do that. But I don't make innumerable calls from the landline anyway.

Now, that I didn't know, about the other country issue.

Have people (here) from the UK gone to the US, for instance, and spent loads of money using their mobiles?

Lots of people have old mobile phones lying around they no longer use, I personally have two pay-as-you-go SIM cards that I've been given over the years and never used. If I were you, I'd pick up an old one off a friend, put a PAYG card in there, and see how much you actually end up spending. If you're below the £15 threshold for the first few months, it's not really worth it.

I used my mobile for a week or so in New York, making and receiving only essential calls to met people etc, and I think it added about £30 to my monthly bill.

when yr internationally roaming, even if you call someone 10 minutes away the call will be bounced back to yr home country and then to the country you are in. gets expensive. US and AUS have cheap pay as you go phones in most pharmacies and convenience stores. way cheaper option.

you can get a US mobile phone with credit already on it for around $20 so it doesnt really make sense to use your UK one there

not sure about other countries

Or you can buy a SIM for you UK mobile for around $5 and not have to get a second phone but then you have to worry about unlocking.

not if you go to chinatown

i love east broadway so much

3 is a company or network, and 3G is a...well, 'type' of mobile/network.

I think that this kind of "technical" knowledge is really quite useless to normal people. I mean, I admire yr vast skills and knowledge in the area of cellular telephones, but that kind of specialist knowledge is of use only to cellular telephone professionals, not common, every-day users of cellular telephones.

Oh, and by the way, have they developed cellular telephone transportation devices yet? While I am quite desirous of the utility provided by a cellular telephone, I have difficulty envisioning myself transporting a brick-sized object to my various appointments without my arms becoming physically weary. A conveyance that utilized, say, my belt, would be most advantageous.

I just bought a mobile telephone; or hired it anyway. It is £15 per month, for 18 months, from the 3 network.

jsut been charged £30 for data while abroad, wtf @ this:

27 May 10  	14:47:13  	idata.o2.co.uk  	ESP  	148  	0.370  	
27 May 10 	15:19:42 	idata.o2.co.uk 	ESP 	459 	1.148 	
28 May 10 	10:17:57 	idata.o2.co.uk 	ESP 	2179 	5.448 	
29 May 10 	00:01:44 	idata.o2.co.uk 	ESP 	2043 	5.108 	
29 May 10 	00:05:10 	idata.o2.co.uk 	ESP 	21 	0.053 	
30 May 10 	00:04:55 	idata.o2.co.uk 	ESP 	1475 	3.688 	
30 May 10 	20:40:39 	idata.o2.co.uk 	ESP 	31 	0.078 	
31 May 10 	00:01:40 	idata.o2.co.uk 	ESP 	2306 	5.765 	
31 May 10 	11:24:41 	idata.o2.co.uk 	ESP 	17 	0.043 	

the fuck was i online for 20 hours at a time! is this some iphone data push bullshit? i thought i had all that switched off.

gps on or something?

Ledge call them. They might be able to backdate it

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-20006667-256.html?tag=pop

been offered a free iphone 4 at £27.50 a month from t-mob... good deal?

potentially v good deal...depending on how many mins/texts you get?

i'd be shocked if it weren't unlimited texts. minutes i don't really care - i actually speak on the phone quite rarely these days i find. and the data would be unlimited. the network coverage map looks a bit dire for my postcode but it can't be worse than O2. sorta want to hold out for the 4S but i'd probably have to actually pay for that...

to be clear i wouldn't actually be SHOCKED. i'd be mildly surprised.

actually reception wise i'd find out someone who has one. o2 works v well for me but flatmate has an orange phone and she has to leave the flat for it to work.

lol@her.

it's a v good deal tho i think.

well, the guy's going to call me back. i think i'll take it.

did it. have this horrible feeling that i've just been scammed.

isn't the iphone5 gonna be out in a couple of months tho?

just got a galaxy s2 for £25 a month with vodafone. pretty happy with it.

ken yes, but i would have to pay somewhere in the neighbourhood of £150-£200 pounds for it, in addition to the contract. i'm getting this one for free.

OH MY GOD I WANT TO KILL THREE SO MUCH RIGHT NOW