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3G or Data Card tarriffs?
      #262838 - Wed Feb 22 2006 03:03 PM

I have bought a caravan in Somerset and need to be able to access and sent E-Mails but I am not prepared to pay £400 plus to have a telephone land line put in.
I understand that it is possible to use a 3G or Data Card (what ever they are called) connected to a laptop to access and send E-Mails. However, I find that the tarrifs appear to be designed to confuse rather than inform so does anyone have a sugestion as to what is the best deal?


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Re: 3G or Data Card tarriffs? [Re: Balliol]
      #262879 - Wed Feb 22 2006 07:38 PM

What provider did you have in mind, and what do you find confusing with the tarrifs you have seen?

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Re: 3G or Data Card tarriffs? [Re: Fusion]
      #262961 - Thu Feb 23 2006 02:13 AM

You don't have a problem so many to choose form unlike the IOM.

Take advise from Fusion who knows about this stuff.


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Re: 3G or Data Card tarriffs? [Re: ronjon]
      #283575 - Fri May 26 2006 06:26 PM

Well, I finished up buying an O2 3 G Datacard because their shop showed me a map which said that I could make contact down in Blue Anchor Bay Somerset and it is totally unsatisfactory because it takes several trys before it even opens up and when it does its as slow as my son when asked to mow the lawn. I asked if they intended to improve their coverage and the answer was as much use as a dead dog.

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Re: 3G or Data Card tarriffs? [Re: Balliol]
      #283764 - Sat May 27 2006 01:08 PM

What made you chose O2?

O2 tarriffs . . . . > O2 3G Datacard

Vodafone tarriffs . . . . > Vodafone NEW Quad Band 3G Datacard (the card I currently have on Mobile Connect 250)

Orange . . . . > 3G Mobile Office Card


I first used the Orange card because of their 14 day return policy. That is: if it doesn't receive 3G in your area, and only receives the slower GPRS, you take it back and you'll be given your money will be returned and the contract cancelled.

I then realised after sometime that Vodafone offer by far the best tarriffs and on the 250 MB's download limit, they beat the rest hands down and had a verbal assurance that the same 14 day return policy would apply to match Orange .

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Re: 3G or Data Card tarriffs? [Re: Fusion]
      #302751 - Fri Sep 01 2006 08:54 PM

I just went with T-mobile-

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/Dispatcher?menuid=phones_im_wnw_pro

£19.99 per month.

2GB limit but fair usage policy applies, this was far cheaper than the other networks that I looked at!

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Re: 3G or Data Card tarriffs? [Re: ultimatehandyman]
      #302753 - Fri Sep 01 2006 09:07 PM

Just goes to show what a few months of competition can do for the consumer!
I wonder if the coverage is as good as Vodafone, their coverage link does'nt work to check!

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Re: 3G or Data Card tarriffs? [Re: Fusion]
      #302800 - Sat Sep 02 2006 06:58 AM

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Just goes to show what a few months of competition can do for the consumer!
I wonder if the coverage is as good as Vodafone, their coverage link does'nt work to check!




I don't think the coverage is as good as Vodafone but it works fine where I live and at the girlfriends and so I am very happy with it. I went in lots of shops and O2 and Vodafone were very expensive compared to T-Mobile. One of the networks only allowed you 100mb per month and stung you with a huge £0.85 per MB after you reached the limit.

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