Okay here’s an ineresting one about Vodafone…. So right now they’re charging shitloads per meg for data, yes? Well, that’s hopefully about to change. Here is a perspective from SMS Text News reader and Mobizines Manager, James Whatley. He was on the phone to Vodafone’s customer services earlier today…
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Y’know that tip I gave you a while back about VF’s Data strategy shift for March?
Well - I just got an exclusive of sorts from them..
Figured I’d call up - try and find out what the coo was:
Turns out:
£7.50 (pcm) will get you 100mb of data to use every month.
Or if you don’t want to do that -
Everyone will automatically be upgraded to a tariff that says as soon as you use 2mb of data VF will charge you £2 and then give you an extra 24mb to use over the next 24hrs.
However - they won’t launch tomorrow as predicted - they’re still having ‘teething problems’.
Oh yeah - and Vodafone Live is being scrapped too.
They’re replacing that with Google at the same time.
FYI and all that chap.
That’s great news for us at Mobizines..
Figured I’d share it with you too.
J.
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Thank you very much James! Here’s hoping, eh? That should probably keep a few folk from jumping ship to other networks. That said…….. 100mb of data is a bit…. gahh. Least it’s something!
Update: See James’ comment below for more information.
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Comment by James Whatley on 28 February 2007:
Nice one dude.
As I said I would -
I called back to confirm all of this with a different CS Advisor.
This time they wouldn’t confirm the £7.50pcm bundle but she (Amy) did clarify the almost ‘PAYG’ offering I suppose which is:
Your first meg of data will cost £1.
Once you hit 1MB you be given an extra 25MB to use over the following 24hrs at a further cost of £2.
So £3 = 26MB of data to use for 24hrs.
Once you hit 26MB the whole process starts over (at least - that’s how I understand it).
Apologies for not getting the confirmation on the £7.50 thing…
*shrug* - sounds pretty kosha to me.
Great news for VF Mobizine Users!
Oh yeah - and in regards to the ’scrapping VF Live for Google’ - well - that seems a bit of a grey area at the moment…
Amy said that VF would still kind of be there but will now be more internet based than wap based…
Whatever that means?!
It’s all so confusing!
The good news is that data prices are falling.
AT LAST!
Comment by njar on 28 February 2007:
that’s encouraging..
Seems the third crusade is well under way
I’m about to upgrade my voda contract but may wait a week or so to see if things are firmed up a bit. Plus i may need to negotiate a deal on the hour long conversation i made from Prague to an Australian mobile on Saturday - dread to think what they’ll charge me. Suspect about £2/min.
Comment by James Whatley on 6 March 2007:
Yeah about that..
I’m on the phone to them every day at the moment pestering them about release dates etc…
Looks like they’ve been put back by AT LEAST a month.
Man on phone said - ‘June at the latest’.
That officially sucks.
Pingback by Yet Another Blog » Blog Archive » Vodafone’s Data Usage Charges on 16 March 2007:
[...] So it looks like the £7.50/Month deal is not nearby (in case you’re wondering the deals have been discussed elsewhere)- Vodafone have delayed any rollout it seems. The comments in that link also suggest the much more conservative limit of 100Mb a month for that cost - not as good but still great, and a huge improvement. [...]