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New GiffGaff Labs goodybag

Steve Terry[_2_] — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:03:15 GMT

As no one else has mentioned it yet, i will.

New GiffGaff Labs goodybag
2p calls,1p texts, for �5

For just �5, get 2p calls and 1p texts to UK mobiles and landlines for a
month
For example, for �15 (�10 credit + �5 giffgaff labs), you'll get 500 UK
mins.
Giffgaff's experimental goodybag is available until 31 OCT 2010.
(It's a lot like the old Three network Stretch add on)

Also:
�10 goodybag has increased to 150 mins
�15 goodybag has increased to 300 mins
New �20 goodybag offers 600 mins
Unlimited mins goodybag price reduced from �35 to �30
All above goodybags include unlimited text and internet

http://giffgaff.com/index/pricing

Steve Terry
--
"I would like to plead for my right to investigate natural phenomena
without having guns pointed at me.
I also ask for the right to be wrong without being hanged for it."
- Wilhelm Reich, November 1947

BT Cellnet / O2 Pay Up Front For Life (PUFFL)

Rashid L — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:07:25 GMT

I'm looking to buy this contract if anyone is selling, please let me
know. I would like this for my kids, (as paying the PAYG topups is
costing too much).
Thanks

--
Rashid L

Re: T-Mobile roaming with AT&T, was: Virgin Mobile ...

Seth[_2_] — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:29:48 GMT

"Paul Miner" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:54:26 -0600, Todd Allcock
> > wrote:
>
>>At 06 Sep 2010 15:02:57 -0700 SMS wrote:
>>>
>>> A lot of people only initially check if their phone as coverage at
>>> home, work, their friend's house, etc. To check all the places you
>>> might be likely to go on vacation, or drive through on the way to
>>> someplace else, is not an exercise most people bother with.
>>
>>Nor should they, necessarily. If a lower price carrier works the places
>>on goes 98% of the time, should they spend an extra (insert dollar figure
>>here) every month forever, to insure they have coverage that one week
>>they drive to the Black Hills or Mesa Verde the year after next? It'd be
>>cheaper just, as someone suggested, to buy a preopaid phone that covers
>>that area before the trip, and let it expire/recycle/throw it away
>>aferwards.
>
> Better yet, and cheaper still, is to forget about the silly quest to
> reach 100% and be happy with 98% (your figure above). Personally, if I
> can make a call more often than not, that's fine with me. I'd bet I'm
> far closer to typical than you '100%' guys.

When I first went with T-Mobile I knew the coverage in the northeast where I
live was less than the other providers (I was switching from VZW) and I was
OK with that. It did, at the time I signed on, work in the specific
locations that were important to me.

It wasn't until those areas started to disappear that I found it
unacceptable.

Re: Virgin Mobile to Begin Offering $40 Unlimited Prepaid 3G Broadband Service Tomorrow

Paul Miner — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:07:13 GMT

On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:26:32 -0700, SMS >
wrote:

>What is rather strange is that they are enabling so many carriers to
>compete with them by selling them access to their network. Sprint would
>be in big trouble without Verizon roaming, MetroPCS's extremely limited
>network is now being made viable with the addition of paid roaming. Even
>someone on T-Mobile or Virgin could simply keep a PagePlus phone active
>for less than $30 a year for the occasional times they leave T-Mobile's
>coverage area.

Better yet, and much more fiscally responsible for most people, is to
keep the $30 in your pocket and forego the silly quest for 100%
coverage. The vast majority of us don't need that.

--
Paul Miner

Re: FCC/FCC antitrust, was: T-Mobile roaming with AT&T, was: VirginMobile ...

SMS — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:11:54 GMT

On 9/6/2010 8:59 PM, danny burstein wrote:

> b: It also hits us indirectly since TM will, natch, have
> to pay more for a roaming partner. Which will heavily
> weigh on their decision to continue that option.
>
> So (no) thanks to the FCC/FTC approval, a good chunk of
> this state is about to step back a decade.
>
> (replace MI with your local State, of course).

The FCC and/or FTC do not pay sufficient attention to what will happen
in terms of roaming agreements as carriers merge or are acquired.

As Todd pointed out, a regional carrier is more likely to be willing to
enter into a roaming agreement with a mainly metro area carrier like
T-Mobile than would a national carrier like AT&T that sees T-Mobile more
of as a competitor.

It's not just the choice of T-Mobile to renew roaming agreements with
formerly independent carriers that are now part of AT&T, it's now AT&T
is in a much stronger position to demand higher roaming rates, or to
just decide that they're no longer interested in roaming agreements at
all. In far north California we have a formerly independent carrier,
Edge Wireless, that is now part of AT&T and that T-Mobile can still roam
on, at least until T-Mobile's roaming agreement with Edge Wireless
expires. If it isn't renewed, that will be an even larger loss of
coverage. We lost huge amounts of coverage on T-Mobile in the San
Francisco Bay Area when we lost AT&T roaming.

I.e., see "http://i54.tinypic.com/9u0nc5.jpg" where T-Mobile is still
able to roam onto AT&T versus "http://i51.tinypic.com/162324l.jpg" where
you used to be able to use T-Mobile on all the AT&T areas, but now all
the roaming is gone.

It doesn't look promising. No matter whose fault it is, the fact remains
that T-Mobile has been removing large amounts of coverage by
discontinuing roaming. The San Francisco Bay Area is a prime example.
T-Mobile postpaid coverage (and eventually prepaid as well) used to be a
superset of T-Mobile and AT&T coverage. Now they've removed all the AT&T
roaming and vast areas of coverage have been lost. You can't even pay
for roaming.

What's rather ironic is that MetroPCS, which historically had been a
carrier with abysmal coverage, now is allowing roaming, at extra cost,
on other CDMA carriers. Paying occasional roaming charges outside the
MetroPCS area is not a big deal for those subscribers that don't spend
tremendous amounts of time outside the MetroPCS coverage area. T-Mobile
is probably hesitant to offer extra-cost off-network roaming because it
would be a tacit and public admission that they've removed a lot of
roaming; they want to be seen as a national carrier and a viable
competitor, but their declining subscriber additions indicate that
they're no longer viewed that way.

Sending messages online

Rad — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:06:11 GMT

I want to be able to send bulk messages online and specify the sender of
the messages. It will only be an average of 1 message per month sent to
around 20 people.

Obviously because of the low value messages I only need to topup with
about £15 per year. I don't want to use any sites offering free text
messages because it's for business purposes and needs to look
professional and comply with DPA.

Can anyone suggest a site that would do this?

Re: FCC/FCC antitrust, was: T-Mobile roaming with AT&T, was: VirginMobile ...

SMS — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:39:19 GMT

On 9/6/2010 10:07 PM, Larry wrote:

> Now, The Borg bought out Alltel and control BOTH 850 Mhz A and B cellular
> bands, a virtual monopoly on the low band coverage across the whole
> state, except for a few horrible swamplands where Verizon "unloaded"
> Alltel's coverage on some Bubba or other.

In South Florida it's the same thing for AT&T. AT&T Wireless and
Cingular had the A & B 800 MHz (AKA 850 MHz) and after the acquisition,
AT&T (nee Cingular) has both. Fortunately, the terrain down there, and
the ease of putting in towers, makes 1900 MHz viable, and both Sprint
and Verizon have excellent coverage. Verizon still was able to be rated
as the top carrier in that area even at 1900 MHz. The only place I ever
roamed onto 800 MHz was out in the Everglades, on the old AT&T AMPS
network. Now I suppose that that coverage is gone completely as there is
no place to put towers that would provide the same level of digital
coverage.

Blackberry 9300 on Orange?

farmerboy466 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:43:48 GMT

Does anybody know how I can get a Blackberry 9300 on Orange? They have
told me that they cannot supply it, but I know it is out.

Does anybody know if theres any problems with this handset also?

Any help would be aprreciated, thanks ;)

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farmerboy466

Re: Verizon begins offering 25MB and unlimited pre-paid data plans

George — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:50:59 GMT

On 9/7/2010 2:22 AM, Drewdove wrote:
> "John > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:02:47 -0700, in
>> >, >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "John > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>
>>
>>> <http://www.techalps.com/android/veri...b-and-unlimite
> d
>>> -
>>>>> pre-paid-data-plans.html>
>>>>>
>>>>> I went to the link, but didn't see any more.
>>>>>
>>>>> On the $10 plan what does the 20� pay for? An extra MB? Inquiring
> minds want
>>>>> to know.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> WRONG!
>>>
>>> http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...singleline.jsp
>>>
>>> $10 buys 25MB with each additional MB costing 20� like I asked.
>>> $30 for unlimited which looks really unlimited rather than 5GB unlimited.
>>>
>>> And the link above clearly says that rather than the link you provided
> which
>>> says none of it.
>>> Swing and miss. I guess everyone was right.
>>
>> Does being a total jerk come naturally, or do you have to work at it?
>> The link I posted is correct:
>>
>> Verizon Wireless today announced it will be expanding its portfolio
>> of prepaid offerings to include a new 3G Prepaid data package that
>> lets customers access unlimited data on select 3G Smartphones and
>> Multimedia phones for $30 monthly access. Multimedia phone customers
>> also have the option of selecting a new $10 monthly data package for
>> 25 MB per month ($.20/MB OVERAGE). [emphasis added]
>>
>> I'm pleased to inform you that you've earned a coveted spot in my twit
>> filter. It's not easy -- posts have to be all crap and no value --
>> but you've cleared the bar with room to spare -- congratulations!
>
> Re-read what I asked
>
>>>>> On the $10 plan what does the 20� pay for? An extra MB? Inquiring
> minds want
>>>>> to know.
>
> Now tell me where in your post what 20� buys.
>
> Everyone can see who the completely clueless idiot is and who provides the
> information people need to know.
>
>
Do you have a citation for that...?

Re: Virgin Mobile to Begin Offering $40 Unlimited Prepaid 3G BroadbandService Tomorrow

George — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:37:15 GMT

On 9/6/2010 9:26 PM, SMS wrote:
> On 9/6/2010 4:43 PM, Todd Allcock wrote:
>
>
>
>> Say what you like about VZW, but they take backup capacity very
>> seriously.
>
> It's part of their marketing plan. If they want to be able to charge
> premium prices then they can't skimp on providing a premium service.

Lots of big companies have creative marketing departments that claim
lots of stuff. The interesting part about VZW is that their
"its the network" claims are true.

>
> What is rather strange is that they are enabling so many carriers to
> compete with them by selling them access to their network. Sprint would
> be in big trouble without Verizon roaming, MetroPCS's extremely limited
> network is now being made viable with the addition of paid roaming. Even
> someone on T-Mobile or Virgin could simply keep a PagePlus phone active
> for less than $30 a year for the occasional times they leave T-Mobile's
> coverage area.

Re: FCC/FCC antitrust, was: T-Mobile roaming with AT&T, was: VirginMobile ...

George — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:26:09 GMT

On 9/6/2010 11:59 PM, danny burstein wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> Home area. It wasn't until after I had 2 service requests in the system (and
>> the first one was closed/resolved with an engineers note of "Indoor
>> reception not supported") and had my ETF waived that I came to this group
>> and see the notes about AT&T roaming agreements expiring on a per area basis
>> (and makes sense for what I've observed).
>
> Which kind of gets me to my concern, and also a related thought
> about whatever happended to anti-trust?
>
> T-Mobile has a modest amount of native coverage in Michigan, but
> plenty is courtesy of roaming.
>
> As of a few months ago, the area north of Lansing was covered
> by both Centennial and AT&T. TM had agreements with both of
> them, and yes, I could manually switch between the two.
>
> Now that AT&T has bought up Centennial, there's only one GSM
> provider in that area. Which has ugly effects on us two ways:
>
> a: If we want our own account, there's only one game
> in town. And we all know what that does to competition.

So you are saying there is absolutely no other competition in your area?
For instance you couldn't go to VZW or Sprint for cell service?

>
> b: It also hits us indirectly since TM will, natch, have
> to pay more for a roaming partner. Which will heavily
> weigh on their decision to continue that option.

They could actually do like other carriers do and build out their
system. tmobile has always underspent on infrastructure. Its not like
their owner can't afford it.

>
> So (no) thanks to the FCC/FTC approval, a good chunk of
> this state is about to step back a decade.
>
> (replace MI with your local State, of course).
>
> Uggh.
>
> disclosure: I'm a TM shareholder.
>
>

Re: Verizon begins offering 25MB and unlimited pre-paid data plans

DanS[_2_] — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:14:07 GMT

> I'm pleased to inform you that you've earned a coveted spot
> in my twit filter. It's not easy -- posts have to be all
> crap and no value -- but you've cleared the bar with room
> to spare -- congratulations!

I doubt it's that hard at all.

All one needs to do is call you the pompous narcissistic ass
that you are.

Buy Nokia E71 online in India

monty alexander — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:23:46 GMT

Nokia E71http://www.naaptol.com/price/14007-Nokia-E71.html is a
monoblock with full keyboard.It has Speaker dependent and speaker
independent voice dialing (SDND, SIND).It has analog and digital clock
both.It has 3.2 megapixel camera.

Buy Nokia E71 online in India

monty alexander — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:23:41 GMT

Buy Nokia E71 online in India

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