DISQUS

alfie · 1 year ago

One thing. Earlier you mentioned that your Qik posts were probably at 3mb per minute. This seems about 3x too large. Have you actually checked the file sizes? One of the Directors at Moblog was in the states a while back and she didnt turn Shozu off. What happened was that Shozu tried to upload images in the background her whole trip, never quite making it off the phone, at which point the upload was attempted again. This created something like a £500 data bill. Did you have something like this set on the handset through April?

All in all, I've never understood why anyone who is really data intensive would ever use anything other than one of 3's Xseries packages; it boggles my brain since as far as I can tell its the most reliable, robust and varied package out there.

Ewan · 1 year ago

Alfie, the video I did with Adam of Esendex was about 10 minutes long and
32mb in size when I downloaded the flash encoded version. That's where I
got the figure!

andrewgrill · 1 year ago

Great, I'll give the people at Vodafone a call and see if I can get the 500MB deal on my Small Business 300 account. Stay tuned...

Ewan · 1 year ago

Good luck!

TerenceEden · 1 year ago

From a recent news report
"Vodafone Total Business plans will be launched on 2 June targeting small to medium-sized enterprises, reports Mobile Today. They will replace the existing Sharetime Plus and Small Business price plans. The new plans include individual SMS packs, mobile internet and email packs which can be added to specific users within a company. Standard usage bundles offer 500 MB while high usage bundles offer 5 GB. "

andrewgrill · 1 year ago

Woohoo! Can't wait until June 2. Thanks for listening Vodafone.

Mike42 · 1 year ago

Result!

Welcome to last year's news, Vodafone subscribers. So that's potentially another 11M UK users who maybe won't be quite so terrified of te mobile nets.

Good news for alI I say.

/m

SteveRowlands · 1 year ago

Ok, I've got a question Re this fair use thingy.

I bought a VF internet dongle today (after much plucking about due to VF's incompentancies, but thats another story) and have got the 3GB plan. However, it says in the small print of the brochure that a fair use policy applies. This contradicts what I got told both from VF CS and in store that if I go over the 3GB limit, then I will be charged extra......

Is the fair use on the dongles actually unfair?

Hmm....

James Whatley · 1 year ago

Honestly - and this is coming from me, the long time lover of Vodafone - I think you're being a bit *too* kind to them...

Ewan · 1 year ago

How so? 500mb is good -- the fair use policy works for me. At the
moment...

Ben Smith · 1 year ago

A stay of execution, then, before they're warmly welcomed back in from the doghouse?

Ewan · 1 year ago

Oh come now Ben, I've blown, what, nearly a grand on them already this year!

Vlad · 1 year ago

I've honestly not heard of 'fair usage policy' meaning anything else than 'if you go over this limit, you will be charged extra', but here's hoping...that your next bill won't be even worse ("we reserve the right to charge you for the excessive element of your usage at the standard out of bundle rate for your price plan" - quote is from Vodafone's Mobile Internet TOS).
And it's a bit funny how you asked (or so I gathered) Jakub why ONLY 500MB, and his reply was as if you asked something like 'wow, isn't that too much?'.
Anyway, perhaps you'll be able to get one of those plans that launch June 2nd and all will be well. I die a little bit inside each time you mention having to refrain from uploading stuff.

Ewan · 1 year ago

Yes I've begun letting go, Bvlad -- I'm now uploading and using data
properly, now!