Actual 'Traffic' Cost

Kremmen · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: Actual 'Traffic' Cost

I know what a years subscription to Traffic or Traffic & Cameras cost as it is on the TomTom website.

However, Orange are not going to let me use their GPRS network free of charge whilst it is connected to my TT1 !

I did enquire and they said it was about £4 per Mb - how much time relates to a Mb ?

On average therefore, can anyone tell me, per hour, what is the typical cost whilst the mobile phone is interacting with the TT Plus services ?

Thanks
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zogman · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:35 pm Post subject:

on the tom tom site it says that the info is in bursts of 64kb..so if you have it to connect every 5 mins then an hour of traffic will be 768kb..remember you dont have to have traffic updates every 5 mins , 15 mins seems to be popular on the forum...
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TomDavison · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject:

Orange World is their data package, and charges from the Orange website today are 4Mb/month £3.80, 10Mb/month £6.81 and 25Mb/month £13.62.

Darren · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject:

There is a useful table of the estimated traffic costs on TomTom's website here.
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zogman · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject:

also there is a section on this forum relating to all tom tom traffic stuff.. traffic
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Kremmen · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject:

Excellent

Thanks for the info

Just need to swap my Nokia 3210 for a Bluetooth model now Confused

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zogman · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject:

Skippy · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject:

Check out T-Mobile's web'n'walk and you get 1 Gig worth of data included rather than the miserable few megabytes.....
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Tomo · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject:

Kremmen · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:34 am Post subject:

OK thanks

Currently I have one of the old TrafficMaster Freeway units velcro'd to the dash which I find invaluable.

That costs £30 a year. Shame you can't get them anymore. I bought 2 of them when Watford Electronics had a blitz a few years ago so I've got a spare.

If the TT traffic is as you say then a trial seems the way to go.

I did have a look in the Orange shop yesterday and there are a few BlueTooth units selling below £50 now.
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Darren · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:33 am Post subject:

iancjc · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:22 am Post subject:

To correct an earlier posting in this thread - 2mb of data will last a month no problem

I use an old orange payg sim and phone and rarely top up more than £20 every 3 months (used only for tomtom) - I drive 40,000 miles a year and yes it is accurate and does work well - far far batter than when it introduced 2 years ago - not perfect but much better than relying on rds radio reports.

I have it set to 15 minute updates. The updates each time are around 3kb not 64kb.
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zogman · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:52 am Post subject:

iancjc · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:56 am Post subject:

I can certainly get the weather - but I think this is a freebie to anyone who connects the phone to the service.

Not used it much - although it is accurate when I've tried it.
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zogman · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject:

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