Phone modem charges

fjon

I've been using my phone a bit as a modem for my laptop (using the app in Nokia PC Suite).
I've heard though that the charges are completely insane.
I'm on an o2 business plan. Anyone do this on a regular basis, and know roughly how much it costs?

Sam Vimes

if you don't have a data plan, 1c per kb. Loading the front page of boards once would cost about a euro

budweiserfrogie

fjon wrote: »

I've been using my phone a bit as a modem for my laptop (using the app in Nokia PC Suite).
I've heard though that the charges are completely insane.
I'm on an o2 business plan. Anyone do this on a regular basis, and know roughly how much it costs?

I too am with o2. I use a windows mobile. I have their basic data tarif.
It costs €7.50 per month for 250mb, this covers all my email and browsing on my fone.
Last month i had to use it for a few days as a modem on my desktop pc when my eircom modem packed in.
Even after a few days lite use i still only used just over half my 250mb allowance in total for the month.
Also available is 1GB(1000mb) for €15.
And 10GB for €30.

fjon

Cheers for the info guys!

cormie

I'm with the €7.50 (inc vat) package myself. I used to have 3 broadband which gave 10GB a month but cost €20, I didn't use it enough to justify the extra cost at all and I'd never use more than a few MB a month so I went with o2 who I'd been with for years with my phone anyway. The connection is better, there's less chance of it being effected by spamhaus if using thunderbird etc but the bad thing is if you need it in the UK, it will cost €8 a mb:eek: So I got myself a vodafone UK sim which gives 50MB for £1 a day. I may only be in the UK 4 or 5 days a year, so with this, it'll only cost me £4 a year for 4 days/50mb a day access which is extremely cheap and 50mb a day is more than enough for the essentials like email etc and enough to do a bit of browsing and stay connected for msn or whatever. Just no youtube