Comments on: 3 breaking the international mobile broadband price mould? http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/10/20/3g-breaking-the-international-mobile-broadband-price-mould/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:01:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ianf http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/10/20/3g-breaking-the-international-mobile-broadband-price-mould/comment-page-1/#comment-5183 Ianf Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:03:42 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=3439#comment-5183 Is the "£10 pre-pay" the same as 3UK monthly contract? They have a confusing array of "3services" on offer, among them the "top-up" which sounds like it ought to be pre-paid/ but maybe not/ or something else.... On a related note - 3UK sells the Skypephone S2, their newer, £70 PAYG model, that can also act as high-speed data dongle: http://www.three.co.uk/personal/mobiles_/discover.omp?CID=1218698836875&PAYG=true It'd be interesting to find out if the same free-within-3 no-roaming principle applies also to that phone-cum-dongle (=one less item to carry around). [ On a related note: recently I mailed 3UK with few simple questions regarding use of that Skypephone S2 with "3-sister" Swedish monthly contract there (where solely the previous, WP-S1 model is on sale).Two days later I got a ring from an Indian call-centre that answered some of my questions, and then attempted to fob me off to 3UK's website - where other answers presumably could be found (the gent actually wanted to dictate the "h-t-t-p-colon" etc over the phone!). When I asked to be emailed direct-access urls to actual pages with those other answers, and that their topicality be checked prior to sending them to me, I was told that all they could provide me with was the top-level url of "www.three.co.uk" Go figure. Or should it be 3Go 3Figure? ;-))] Is the “£10 pre-pay” the same as 3UK monthly contract? They have a confusing array of “3services” on offer, among them the “top-up” which sounds like it ought to be pre-paid/ but maybe not/ or something else….

On a related note – 3UK sells the Skypephone S2, their newer, £70 PAYG model, that can also act as high-speed data dongle:
http://www.three.co.uk/personal/mobiles_/discover.omp?CID=1218698836875&PAYG=true

It’d be interesting to find out if the same free-within-3 no-roaming principle applies also to that phone-cum-dongle (=one less item to carry around).

[ On a related note: recently I mailed 3UK with few simple questions regarding use of that Skypephone S2 with "3-sister" Swedish monthly contract there (where solely the previous, WP-S1 model is on sale).Two days later I got a ring from an Indian call-centre that answered some of my questions, and then attempted to fob me off to 3UK's website - where other answers presumably could be found (the gent actually wanted to dictate the "h-t-t-p-colon" etc over the phone!).

When I asked to be emailed direct-access urls to actual pages with those other answers, and that their topicality be checked prior to sending them to me, I was told that all they could provide me with was the top-level url of "www.three.co.uk" Go figure. Or should it be 3Go 3Figure? ;-) )]

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/10/20/3g-breaking-the-international-mobile-broadband-price-mould/comment-page-1/#comment-5182 Dennis Howlett Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:35:31 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=3439#comment-5182 I assumed that Paul but you're right to make that clear. Thanks. I assumed that Paul but you're right to make that clear. Thanks.

]]> By: Paul Walsh http://www.accmanpro.com/2008/10/20/3g-breaking-the-international-mobile-broadband-price-mould/comment-page-1/#comment-5181 Paul Walsh Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:32:22 +0000 http://www.accmanpro.com/?p=3439#comment-5181 Perhaps I should have made it clear Dennis, that it allows me to roam on the 3 networks worldwide - not on other networks. But that is still better than the rest of the bunch, right?! Perhaps I should have made it clear Dennis, that it allows me to roam on the 3 networks worldwide – not on other networks. But that is still better than the rest of the bunch, right?!

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