Roaming rated reduced by 3 mobile broadband
June 30, 2009
It is announced that starting from today, the EU roaming rates are reduced by Mobile broadband provider 3. According to 3 Broadband, it will offer lowest roaming rates for a MB of any UK provider.
In order to access internet in Europe through your phone or mobile broadband dongle it will cost £1.25 per MB. The company, 3 Broadband claims that this is below the cap sketched out by the latest European regulation.
Starting from today, it will cost 34p per minute for making calls to UK and to other EU countries from the Europe. It will cost 11p for sending text to any parts of EU and UK. When you receive the calls it will cost up to 15p.
European Commission’s new rules which come to effect on 1 July have enforced mobile phone and mobile broadband operators to limit the roaming rates within EU in a proposal to end “bill shocks”.
After 1 July, the EU users who make calls or send texts can experience EU’s single market without borders. With the efforts of European Commission, the European Parliament and all 27 EU Member States the roaming-rip will come to an end, said EU Telecoms Commissioner, Viviane Reding.
Next year, the providers will introduce automatic cut-off if the customer’s bill reaches €50 (£42), which is according to the new rules. Head of communication and mobile products at 3 UK, John Eccleston said they don’t want their customers to change the way they use their phone or dongle as they stay abroad. They shouldn’t be taken aback by the pricing structure and they user can make calls, update Facebook status or send an email without any thoughts.
Vodafone offers Six month mobile broadband contracts
June 29, 2009
Six months mobile broadband contract is offered by Vodafone for the very first time. Customers has to sign in for 12, 18 or even 24 months long contracts as for now and at the same time customers who wants to roll one-month contracts or pay as you go mobile broadband packages will have let go the value in the name of very short contract.
Students are going to benefit from Vodafone Broadband’s new six month deal for those who are uncertain about the mobile broadband and do not want to go for long contracts.
For 3GB set download allowance the consumers will have to pay £15 for month and for their mobile broadband dongle, a one-off fee of £29. When the user goes beyond the 3GB monthly download limit they will need to pay extra, that is for every additional 3GB of £15 will be charged. According to Vodafone 3GB per month is adequate for 100 hours of web-browsing, 2,000 emails, 200 MP3 tracks and 100 short videos plus.
Vodafone network supports speeds of up to 7.2Mb. At present it covers up to 80% of the UK, although the 7.2Mb maximum can be attained in major cities and airports. On the other hand maximum advertised speeds are achieved infrequently.
Dial-up Internet in par with Satellite Internet
June 28, 2009
Across the country, many rural homes still doesn’t have access to DSL or cable despite of the wide popularity of broadband in the country. Dial up and satellite are the two types of internet offered in rural areas.
In comparison with satellite broadband dial up internet connections are more advantageous. Price is the most crucial factor that makes a glaring difference of the two. The dial up connection is available at relatively low cost than satellite connections. For dial up connection you need to pay little or in some cases no additional fee including set up or equipment fees. Satellite internet costs more, apart from that you need to spent money for buying or leasing the equipment for its installation. Repair plans, technical support, or contract fees are other expenses incurred. The cost for satellite internet is huge and you cannot compare it with the price of dial up connections. Dial up modem costs moderately less and often it is installed on the computer. All you will need is a land line and a phone cord.
Other two factors other than price are reliability and convenience, which makes dial up connections superior than satellite. Satellite internet depends on the installed satellite dish which limits flexibility in use. Whereas in the case of dial up internet, you can take this service on vacation or when you are travelling as the dialup services is available to any computer that has a landline phone.
Though satellite internet boasts faster broadband speed as it cannot be relied upon. In case of severe whether conditions the speed is suddenly put to an end and might damage the expensive satellite. Homes that have a clear view of the southern sky can only use the satellite connections. Satellite connection cannot be accessed for those staying in wooded area or homes amongst large buildings.
Setting up satellite will take several weeks of labour, and will cost high including repairs. Whereas for dialup connection all you will need is configure your computer and rest is as simple as a phone call. In short dial up connections are economical, reliable and an easy way.
O2 offers mobile broadband dongle at half the price
June 26, 2009
When O2 customers subscribe to any of their pay as you go mobile broadband packages they are offered with mobile broadband dongle at half the price.
Customers can get a mobile broadband dongle for just £14.67 when they subscribe within Monday 29 June along with that the customers are offered with an option of three pay as you go mobile broadband packages.
The O2 Mobile Broadband (www.O2.co.uk) USB Modem E160 on offer provides up to 3.6Mb speeds. It can be doubled as a memory stick which includes 2GB memory card slot too.
From among daily, weekly or monthly pay as you go tariffs customers can make their choice. It begins from 500MB for £2 per day, 1GB allowance for £7.50 per week or 3GB allowance for £15 per month. These tariffs include unlimited Wi-Fi access at over 5,000 wireless hotspots and the customers can use it in the same period just like each mobile data allowance.
Be Broadband and Virgin Media refreshes latest broadband packages
June 25, 2009
The latest broad band offers of Be Broadband and Virgin Media has been revived. The worth of Amazon voucher offer has been doubled by Be Broadband. Under this package the customers could get £48 voucher when they sign a 12 month contract within 30 June. When the customer’s sign up to any of the 12 month contract online they need to enter 24OfferBTC1 code and by doing so they could get the benefit of this free voucher.
Three packages of Be broadband comes with 12 month contracts. For rolling three months contract, customers of Unlimited and Pro need to pay an addition of £2.50 per month. Speed up to 24Mb is offered in two of the packages, whereas the relatively cheap Value package offers speeds of up to 8Mb.
On the other hand Cable broadband provider Virgin Media have refreshed their £50 offer, were the customers are availed discount of £20 when they subscribe to any broadband, home phone and digital TV. Installation is absolutely free whereby the customer can save £50. Triple play bundle one of the cheapest of Virgin Media bundle packages costs £14 per month. They can get 10Mb broadband, free UK landline weekend calls and 45 digital TV channels including £11 as a monthly line rental.
Bundle combinations can be created by the customers themselves. They can choose from among speeds of up to 20Mb and even 50Mb, fastest in the UK, evening and weekend or anytime landline calls and up to 100 or 165 TV channels with free catch-up TV.
