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The Cloud’s £9.99 unlimited wifi for your Nokia N95

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I was browsing The Cloud’s site yesterday and came across this offer. I’m sure I’ve read about it before, however I hadn’t actually seen-it-in-the-flesh as it were.

What’s rather exciting is you get a 30-day free trial to check it out. So if you’ve just got yourself a brand spanking new Nokia N95 here in the UK, it’s worth a shot.

£9.99 a month gets you unlimited wifi for your Nokia N95 at any one of their 7,000 hotspots. Think railway stations, airports, pubs, City of London and so on.

‘How does it work for just the N95?’ I thought, ‘And do you have to arse about signing in every time you want to get a connection?’

Well, all is revealed in the small text underneath the sign-up option.

Registering the N95 MAC Address
In order for your device to work on The Cloud Network you have to register the phone’s MAC address. The MAC address format is 12 characters separated either by colons or dashes (eg, 00:00:00:00:00:00 or 00-00-00-00-00-00). MAC addresses can be made up of a combination of numbers 0-9 and letters A-F. Please note do not use the Bluetooth MAC address.

Finding the MAC Address
The MAC address can be found by entering *#62209526# on the keypad, when in standby mode

Ah hah. Well. Now I know.

The only slight issue I have? It’s 11.99 a month if you want to use it with your laptop. Although you could probably use the N95 as the modem if you wanted to connect.

You can read more about this offer from The Cloud here..

3 COMMENTS

  1. Why the difference in pricing? Isn’t it the same service or is there something very fancy they have to do to enable your Nokia N95? Seems it should be a “one customer one price” regardless of device you want to use. One day it’ll be your N95, another day it’ll be your laptop.

    I’m interested to know if the speeds are good if you *do* connect your laptop via your N95… do share when you’ve tried it Ewan!

  2. I think it’s a few pounds cheaper because you can ONLY use your N95 — not just any computer at all. I’ll see if I can give it a go!

  3. So ‘cos I have a BT home broadband connection with apparently free access to The Cloud thrown in, can I use my N95? It’s not at all clear.

    I tried once using The cloud at Waterloo last year. The experience was sooooo horrible i never wanted to go back.

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