Free Vodafone GPRS

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JaYz

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#1154 2-Mar-2004 16:59

Hey ...
I have used my 7250 on gprs for approximately 4 or 5 months without getting charged a cent? I don't hav the new sim 2 nd have had no problems.... i hav now got a 7600 which is wap 2.0 it works fine as well... the wap and everything works fine nd i can also use it as a modem for my computer i can play games with not to much lag..... all totally free..... until yesterday ..... everything stopped? y ? can n e one help me? it says "subscribe to gprs first"??? but i've already used it like that and changed nothing? i have already got extra modem strings and everything? i've run outta ideas.....

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#3964 2-Mar-2004 17:15

Is this a prepay SIM or contract? I think it was just a blooper in their billing systems...

JaYz

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#3966 2-Mar-2004 17:22

Prepay .... but i kno many people who have done this? it has stopped once b4.... but i just changed the username to something random .... nd it worked again ... but even thats not working n e more ...... anyone kno n e thing about?

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#4087 7-Mar-2004 21:56

worked for me too, havent tried it for a few months tho

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#4245 15-Mar-2004 15:50

I asked about this a while ago, apparently it was an error somewhere.

The person who replied worked for the company and so wasn't really allowed to give any more information. I guess he's read this thread as well...

I guess they must have fixed the error :(.

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#4249 15-Mar-2004 16:43

Was it you? I can't remember.

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#5982 22-May-2004 23:51

Hi I have a alcatel 735 that I 've had for about a month, im using it on prepaid with an old sim card. I've probably used about 2meg and haven been charged yet (from about a month ago. I've had money on my account the whole time. I thought according to this post that they had fixed that problem

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#5986 23-May-2004 10:13

Not quite. Seems that billing is still having a problem...

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#6175 30-May-2004 17:15

There is still a way of getting "free" GPRS in NZ, nobody I know will confirm or deny it but I believe an APN exists that you won't get billed for. Vodafone have lots of holes in their systems, some they might be aware of and decide aren't worth fixing, others that they're obviously completely unaware of as they still work years after being disconvered.

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#6176 30-May-2004 17:39

sorry im more of a software guy, whats an APN?

Center

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#6310 4-Jun-2004 19:58

Is GPRS data charged at the gateway.
What I mean is that could you change the gateway on your phone to a non-Voafone gateway.

Also what program would you use to do this?

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#6320 5-Jun-2004 13:29

So if I ran my own gateway I will still get charged?

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#6322 5-Jun-2004 16:26

there are a few APN that don't seem to be charged ;-) i've got ~$2 on m a prepay sim, and i'm doing 10MB+ a day - no movement in my balance.

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#6324 5-Jun-2004 16:58

couple more questions to do with apn's

1) why do vf need more than 1 access point name, what do they do?
2) why don't vf just turn off the apn's that aren't charging properly?

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#6326 5-Jun-2004 17:46

There's a lot of devices/sofware that i know of that don't let you define the APN... - so one reason i know would be to allow these to use Vodafone's network even though they're prgrammed with another telco in mind.

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#6331 5-Jun-2004 19:57

Whats this free APN you talk of?

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