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didn't take me that long..
<Removal man 1> Sir, where would you like this potplant?
<Colao> Over there, next to the Espresso machine, along from the picture of the Pope
<Sarin> er...about this Macleod guy, you know, we had him in last month for a chat...well, er....
<Colao> What? Some blogger? Who cares?
<Sarin> But he speaks directly to 250,000 mobile industry people...like us!
<Colao> Esattamente! The real people don't care a bean, remember our bet? How long they will pay £2.35 per megabit? We have years of this left. Those amateurs at T-Mobile & 3! Pah! Look at their data ARPU. We are the kings of mobile data!
<Sarin> But, er, 3 has the highest data ARPU of anyone
<Colao> Yes, but for how many of their customers, eh? EH?
<Sarin> But their customers, they purchase these dongle things like candy
<Colao> Esattamente! They are babys! We are the men of mobile! PregoPregoLamborghiniRistretto!
On the plus side had you had 500MB of data you would have been OK!
My approach? One handset for calls with some data (iPhone for me because I heart Steve) and workhorse on 3 pre-pay - £5 per month for 1GB data. Even though they seem to be killing x-series through neglect I still love them so much for all the other stuff I think I'll always keep one of their handsets around.
Personally I think vodafone need to learn by not offering good data they will lose customers, data is demanded just as much as voice calls and I think you should pull your business entirely!!!
The disparity between human/handset users and machine/data card users is amazing.
For £15/month I get 3,000Mb (3GB) for my data card - but not available for us humans to use - no voice tariff on this just data only plan. WHY? The data supplied is the same, but if you dare also have a voice contract you get slugged for data usage on your handset.
Please explain?
Amazing also is their new "unlimited internet and email" promotion - plastered all over their shopfronts like here http://andrewgrill.com/images/unlimited_vodafon...
BUT - no asterisk, no disclaimer - they say unlimited on ALL plans.
Wonder how long until the advertising standards people grab them for this one. Remember the recent "best in Britain bar none" campaign....
It is wholly profiteering of them to just sit on their behinds and watch with glee as we go and spend more and more. I've recently had a five month battle with Orange over additional charges generated by their systems going wrong. It would have gone under the carpet if I'd not chased it.
There was also that case of the Canadian man who ended up with a bill of $85,000 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/71419...) for using a cell phone as an ISP-replacement. Sure, he too signed up for it and should've read the small print. But if we're being encouraged to use our mobile devices to access the internet in our mobile lives, I think companies should be responsible and let us know in advance if we're going to be in 'trouble'. If they refuse to communicate with us responsibly, then we should vote with our feet.
"Vodafone has unveiled new business tariffs which focus on mobile email and internet to satisfy a growing number of workers on the move.
"The Vodafone Total Business plans will be launched on 2 June targeting small to medium enterprises.
"They will replace the existing Sharetime Plus and Small Business price plans.
"The new plans include individual text packs and mobile internet and email packs which can be added to specific users within a company.
"The mobile internet and mobile email packs come in two sizes - standard usage bundles offer 500MB while high usage bundles offer 5GB."