Okay, so it’s only ‘official’ because I say so but mobile internet in the UK hasn’t come very far at all and isn’t really going anwhere fast.
For a start, the costs are frighteningly prohibitive. Orange UK will gladly charge you £4 ($7.77) for one megabyte of data on their arse-numbingly slow GPRS network! The average day’s idling on an IM network can ammount to more than that.
On their payg network, they do offer an ‘unlimited’ day’s GPRS for £1 which you buy up front. The trouble is, as I found out to my cost that the network availability can be pathetic even if you are staying put all day meaning it is all too easy to waste that £1.
Then there are the ‘roaming charges’ (punitive charges made to you when connecting from even your own network operator in the EU) These charges can be in excess of £10 per megabyte. T-Mobile, in an unusual fit of generosity recently announced that it would cap it’s daily roaming GPRS rate at ?12. Wow! That’s just ?360 a month!
I’m starting to wonder if I could get a pre-paid Iridium Sattellite data package cheaper.
Well I’m posting this via my Nokia 770 / Nokia 7650 pair over the Orange GPRS network. I’ll have to hope their network hold up ong enough to***NO CARRIER***
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