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Re: [LUG] OT: Mobile data, WAS: Interesting Linux info

 

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Rob Beard wrote:
> Paul Sutton wrote:
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>> Rob Beard wrote:
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>>> Max Siegieda wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Only gone over 1GB once? blimey, I'm on pay as you go and am
>>>> struggling to burn through the 150MB "free" allowance, then again all
>>>> I tend to do is use twitter and browse hexus/bit-tech/webcomics.
>>>>       
>>> It's easy when you know how...
>>>
>>> Try browsing some web sites on there, some pages I've come across are
>>> 1MB at a time.  It really does annoy me that some of these online
>>> retailers don't have a mobile site, Amazon and eBay are about the only
>>> ones that tend to have mobile versions of their sites, other such as
>>> HMV, Currys, Comet, Tesco seem to only think people will browse their
>>> sites from home.  Not good when you're trying to compare prices (and in
>>> some cases I've ended up going elsewhere because they haven't got a
>>> mobile site and I'm not near a computer).
>>>
>>> Also there's Google Maps which can sit in the background on my phone
>>> always updating my location, and podcasts (although I tend to download
>>> these when at home using the phone's slow but free wifi), um...
>>> e-mail too.
>>>
>>> Yes I can use 1GB if I try, although I've only gone over it once so
>>> far.  Unfortunately on Three, the mobile portal doesn't tell you your
>>> data usage, only that you haven't exceeded it.  So I don't know how much
>>> data I've used until I'm nearly hitting the limits.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>> What we need is a meeting where teachers attend, we can then do talks on
>> the different software for education and actually ask them what they
>> nede as a school.  what is wrong, with the current set up,  how much
>> they would be prepared to pay etc
>>
>> do our market research with actual teachers, then get together and
>> propose something.
>>
>> paul
>>
>>
>>   
> Um... what have teachers got to do with exceeding a mobile data
> allowance? :-)
> 
> Did you reply to the wrong message?
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
No idea,  this was something in reply to school broadband

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