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SiGainey Occasional Visitor
Joined: Aug 21, 2006 Posts: 4
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:45 am Post subject: PAYG SIM |
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Hi. I'm very fed up with the poor customer service I've been receiving from Orange on my PAYG and their complete inability to let me use GPRS on my phone so I'm after another provider that others have said "yep, it just works and there were no problems setting the phone up". I'm thinking O2 as they have some deals on at the moment for PAYG and GPRS.
Anyone any recomendations? Can I just buy a SIM card from ebay and it will work? |
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Tim Buxton Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 14/09/2002 20:56:18 Posts: 5231 Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Why not buy one from an O2 shop? Be sure that your 'phone isn't locked to Orange, though. _________________ Tim |
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mattyduk Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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I got fed up with O2 GPRS on PAYG as they stop you using a smartphone to browse the web (from what I could tell anyway).
Changed to t-mobile PAYG who offer a sensible policy of browse as much as want want for a whole day - total cost £1 |
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rodderstrotter Regular Visitor
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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Shame easymobile is closing next month, the gprs data for traffic was too low for it to register, so there was never any charge! I am hoping another provider has got this quark, but it's not likely. |
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rodderstrotter Regular Visitor
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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mattyduk wrote: | I got fed up with O2 GPRS on PAYG as they stop you using a smartphone to browse the web (from what I could tell anyway).
Changed to t-mobile PAYG who offer a sensible policy of browse as much as want want for a whole day - total cost £1 |
£1 a day great for surfing, but for tt traffic alone it's not that good @ 0.73p per Kb compared to 0.3p per Kb on other networks. The data usage is that small for tomtom you're unlikely to hit the £1 threashold in a day. |
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Dixie68 Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:48 am Post subject: |
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I used my TT1 v2 with Traffic yesterday to go from Lincoln to Gravesend and back again. I had traffic updating every 15 mins and a few times I did it manually to check if far off incidents had cleared.
Before I left I had £37 and some pence credit, and after I got back I had over £36, and to me that was superb - especially as it saved me almost an hour of 'parking' on the motorway after a crash (it routed me around nicely).
I'm on Vodafone PAYG, which took a bit of messing around with to get working but I'm very glad I did - was originally on Orange which I found to be next to useless. |
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dazp15 Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Dixie68-can i ask you what phone you have,am on vodafone payg with the nokia 6300 and cant seem to connect to traffic at all.:x
Cheers daz |
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Dixie68 Occasional Visitor
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dazp15 Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:15 am Post subject: |
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Thanks very much,,got it going :D
just need to know what this baby can do now |
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Dixie68 Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: |
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Good news, glad I could help :D |
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rjm2k Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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dazp15 wrote: | Thanks very much,,got it going :D
just need to know what this baby can do now |
Got what going, afaik, tomtom can't use an O2 PAYG sim to connect to the net. |
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