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Re: [LUG] Battery powered 3G modems / Wifi hotspot

 

On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Simon Waters wrote:

Doesn't seem bad for a tenner a month :-)

Check the terms as for me, a fairly keen data user, it was still cheaper not to take the goody bag. The contrast with some other providers prices for exceeding limits is stark.

Hm. Let me check.. For the £10/month goody bag (which I use), I get 1GB of
data a month. (+ 500 minutes & unlimited texts, free GG to GG calls)

PAYG data is:

  *Mobile internet is charged at no more than 20p a day (up to 20MB). If
    you go over 20MB, you'll be charged extra at 20p/MB.

So for 30 days @ 20p/day it's a minimum of £6.00 a month. That's very
reasonable - until you go over the 20MB/day limit...

The £4 difference between that £6 and the tenner goody bag represents
20MB of additional data. (20p/MB, so £4 is 20 units of 1MB = 20MB)

So say one day you "burn" 100MB reading the BBC news, downloading a few
apps, etc. that's 100 * 20p = £20.

But if you can mostly use Wi-Fi and never (or rarely) use 3G (turn
auto-update, sync, etc. off) then it might well be cheaper to stick to
GiffGaffs PAYG tarrif and not get a goody bag at all.

I did try it the first 2 months - and for me it was marginal, and I was
conciously trying to not use mobile data, so just went with the £10/month
deal... (And it was much better than my old £19/month thing I was paying
O2 for previously anyway, so I still feel I'm better off!)

The down-side of the goody bags is that you can only have one a month, so if I burn my 1GB allowance in the first day, I'm stuck with 29 days of PAYG data prices before I can renew the goodybag.

My wife tried a SIM in her tablet for a couple of months and just looking at email, weather, and a few web pages and she came close to the PAYG allowance (of £15) in the first month...

But if you fancy giffgaff, then:

  http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/gordondrogon

will earn us both a fiver ;-)

Gordon
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