T-Mobile UK’s 3g data service — “F****** fan-TASTIC”
SMS Text News reader and pure genius, Dan Lane, has, through a comedy of annoying rules and regulations, been unable to use the phone line in his new apartment. TalkTalk (as signed-up by the previous tenant) won’t unlock the line so that BT can install super-fast-ADSL.
He’s been forced to get a new line installed. That comes on Friday.
Meantime, though, he’s been living in this new place for about 2 weeks.
How has he been connecting to the internet? Well, using T-Mobile’s web ‘n walk….
… via his E61….
… via Bluetooth on his MacBook!
Get in! Wow!
It’s been working very nicely — he’s networked his girlfriend so both of them are able to access the internet through the E61. It’s really exciting to hear of people actually giving their technology a good work out.
So far he’s clocked up 916mb of data which, he calculates, would have cost him at least £3,664 (at 4 quid a meg) if he was using his Orange connection (which he’s just switched to PAYG). Obviously since he’s on T-Mobile, the total cost is £7.50 a month. Heh. Should he go over the 1gig fair-use limit, I reckon they’ll turn a blind eye. As long as he’s not running up gigs of data.
It’s worth noting that Dan and his girlfriend aren’t just doing namby-pamby browsing-of-a-web-page. Both of them work online all day and have really been putting huge demands on the internet connection. Wicked!
Sometimes I look at the wonderful networking things that people are doing with their Macs, and I sigh. I *almost* wish I had one.
Posted by Daniel on March 15th, 2007 at 5:21 am.Must have better data coverage and speeds than I get on T-mobile.
Jim
Posted by Jim Black on March 15th, 2007 at 10:12 am.Let go Daniel… reach out, search your feelings……
Posted by ewan on March 15th, 2007 at 12:42 pm.Jim — Dan is in the Docklands so he has a super signal
Posted by ewan on March 15th, 2007 at 12:43 pm.Did this myself when I moved into a brand new house & had to wait 3 weeks for a phone line & broadband. I can see the local TM WBTS, so speed wasn’t an issue. However as I was using a 6680 via bluetooth to my Mac mini, it wasn’t the most stable of things & both needed a reboot every day.
Posted by Richard on March 15th, 2007 at 12:48 pm.