Comments on: Mobile Broadband http://chrismarshall.ws/mobile-broadband Lifestyle - Thoughts - Passions - Reviews Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:23:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Chris Marshall http://chrismarshall.ws/mobile-broadband/comment-page-1#comment-46652 Chris Marshall Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:07:36 +0000 http://chrismarshall.ws/mobile-broadband#comment-46652 @Mac - I imagine it is partly to do with the fact that like iPhone/AT&T they don't want as a telephone company to be offering a product that would reduce their core business income. If you pay the higher monthly contract fee you can use VOiP services, just not on the Pay As You Go and lower monthly contract options. @Max - I imagine those roaming charges would be huge!!!! @Mac – I imagine it is partly to do with the fact that like iPhone/AT&T they don’t want as a telephone company to be offering a product that would reduce their core business income.

If you pay the higher monthly contract fee you can use VOiP services, just not on the Pay As You Go and lower monthly contract options.

@Max – I imagine those roaming charges would be huge!!!!

]]> By: Max http://chrismarshall.ws/mobile-broadband/comment-page-1#comment-46229 Max Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:35:59 +0000 http://chrismarshall.ws/mobile-broadband#comment-46229 [quote comment=""]An alternative to this is the new Three Skypephone. You can buy a PAYG one for £50 and subscribing for a month on PAYG costs about £10 but ignore the call allocation - a PAYG Skypephone gives you a month's access to surf the internet subject to the usual fair use etc. You simply connect the phone and Mac by bluetooth and use the phone as your modem (there are no drivers to allow you to connect via cable from a Mac). It works well and its cheap. Oh and it charges via a USB cable so no clunky adaptor if you don't want to carry one. In case anyone is interested its explained here http://www.3skypephone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=445 HTH[/quote]Oooops should have said the above is intended for the UK only as I imagine roaming charges would be exorbitant. [quote comment=""]An alternative to this is the new Three Skypephone. You can buy a PAYG one for £50 and subscribing for a month on PAYG costs about £10 but ignore the call allocation – a PAYG Skypephone gives you a month’s access to surf the internet subject to the usual fair use etc. You simply connect the phone and Mac by bluetooth and use the phone as your modem (there are no drivers to allow you to connect via cable from a Mac). It works well and its cheap. Oh and it charges via a USB cable so no clunky adaptor if you don’t want to carry one.

In case anyone is interested its explained here http://www.3skypephone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=445

HTH[/quote]Oooops should have said the above is intended for the UK only as I imagine roaming charges would be exorbitant.

]]> By: Max http://chrismarshall.ws/mobile-broadband/comment-page-1#comment-46228 Max Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:34:24 +0000 http://chrismarshall.ws/mobile-broadband#comment-46228 An alternative to this is the new Three Skypephone. You can buy a PAYG one for £50 and subscribing for a month on PAYG costs about £10 but ignore the call allocation - a PAYG Skypephone gives you a month's access to surf the internet subject to the usual fair use etc. You simply connect the phone and Mac by bluetooth and use the phone as your modem (there are no drivers to allow you to connect via cable from a Mac). It works well and its cheap. Oh and it charges via a USB cable so no clunky adaptor if you don't want to carry one. In case anyone is interested its explained here http://www.3skypephone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=445 HTH An alternative to this is the new Three Skypephone. You can buy a PAYG one for £50 and subscribing for a month on PAYG costs about £10 but ignore the call allocation – a PAYG Skypephone gives you a month’s access to surf the internet subject to the usual fair use etc. You simply connect the phone and Mac by bluetooth and use the phone as your modem (there are no drivers to allow you to connect via cable from a Mac). It works well and its cheap. Oh and it charges via a USB cable so no clunky adaptor if you don’t want to carry one.

In case anyone is interested its explained here http://www.3skypephone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=445

HTH

]]> By: Mac Sokulski http://chrismarshall.ws/mobile-broadband/comment-page-1#comment-45686 Mac Sokulski Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:17:17 +0000 http://chrismarshall.ws/mobile-broadband#comment-45686 Does VOIP fall into the the fair use restrictions, or is the connection just too slow? I'm a bit surprised that they would not let you use this for VOIP. I think 3G network should be fast enough for VOIP. So why isn't it allowed? Does VOIP fall into the the fair use restrictions, or is the connection just too slow? I’m a bit surprised that they would not let you use this for VOIP. I think 3G network should be fast enough for VOIP. So why isn’t it allowed?

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