SE610 and New Zealand Vodafone GPRS data rates.

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peteremcc

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#9941 5-Nov-2004 13:39

Lol...

If it came out here it would certainly be an option for me. I pay about $30 now on Xtra Dialup unlimited anyway but can't use it much because being away from home. If it was true unlimited or even say 2GB them it would probably be worth it.

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#9952 5-Nov-2004 20:10

Hahah.. fat chance of transferring 2GB in a month over GPRS! You were kidding weren't you? :-)

What amazes me is a total lack of interest from both Telecom or Vodafone in trying to get casual users onto mobile data plans. With the number of people out there with laptops there is a huge potentnail market that nobody seems interested in tapping. Corporates have their account managers to deal with and IT people to sort out issues but the general public has nothing. Why aren't either company basically promoting mobile data use and encouraging people to come into the store? Get them to bring their laptop etc and look at how easy it is to have a mobile connection. Now that Vodafone have finally seen the light (despite saying a year ago it would NEVER happen) to flag GPRS data charges for accessing Vodafone Live! they have no real need to keep the low tier GPRS rates so high since most people don't go outside Vodafone Live! using WAP anyway. Keep the casual rate the same for those who do occasionally browse other WAP sites but then bring some decent data caps into the $10 + price range (maybe $10 for 10MB?) so those casual users are commiting themselves to $10 per month even if they don't use it all but will happily surf the net as they know they're not going to need to take out a bank loan to pay their bill. A $50 flat rate plan is still expensive if you only want to use data on a casual basis.

Both networks really want data to take off to increase ARPA but seem to have no proper gameplan to actually do this. Why should people really be paying such a huge premium just to have a mobile internet connection?

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#9953 5-Nov-2004 20:44

Telecom has just released its Loyalty Corporate Multi User plan to the general public by way of the broadband flexi plan.

$10 network access and $1 per megabyte.

Not a lot of outlay monthly, and a real cheap (for mobile) data rate.

This price applies to both T3G and CDMA 1X

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#9961 5-Nov-2004 21:18

Well ive done probably 5GB in a month on dial up before. GPRS isn't much slower is it?

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#9979 6-Nov-2004 13:56

Whole different kettle of fish though. People would often leave a dial up connection downloading for say 12-24hours at a time, but not many would do that with GPRS on a handset as they would need to carry the phone round with them now and again.

So I guess the oppurtunitys for leaving a mobile device connected are limited compared to dialup at home.

I couldnt imagine anyone needing more than a gig of data via mobile in a month (although Im sure there are people who could require that)

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#10011 7-Nov-2004 11:56

>Whole different kettle of fish though. People would often leave a dial up connection downloading >for say 12-24hours at a time, but not many would do that with GPRS on a handset as they would >need to carry the phone round with them now and again.

Unless you happened to be a loon like me and carry your laptop around too. As long as your mobile and laptop don't go out of 10m when using bluetooth. Also with mobiles turning into MP3 players, this is one 'big' selling point for high speed connections and better data rates and prices for mobile phones. suppose all this will manifest itself with 3G.

With mobiles having 20 - 512MB of storage and all the tools to use GPRS or CDMA, whats happening. Oh and most of these phones are not 3G and can't use UMTS.

I saw in a NZ mobile phone magizine some one had bought a new SE F500i and was asking how to download songs to it. Oddly enough the answer was not, "Use the mobile phone network".

Now if I was a mobile phone marketing man. However am aware of the current problems with storage and sales of on line songs, BUT there is volume, there is a market and at a good price....

Or don't NZ kids listen to music, or don't they pester there parents to buy an MP3 mobile phone as it'd be cool at school.

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#10270 18-Nov-2004 00:02

"Flat rate" in Australia means "Clause X, Y & Z apply"
I had some "fun" on a phone while I was over there (okay I downloaded most of VLIVE and uploaded acout 1.5GB of digicam pictures on my QTEK )

Of course this was "excessive use" according to them.

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#11330 26-Dec-2004 11:23

I just have seen a HSPDA demo on a live 3GSM network, they downloaded MSN 7.0 (beta) 7 meg in under 20 seconds, HSPDA increases a cell capacity by up to 70%. I see GPRS rates have come down here in NZ which is good, I have now purchased a dual mode 3GSM/GPRS connect card. I have seen new aerials on the 2 voda sites near my place,

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