03-06-2003, 09:00 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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T-Mobile Cuts GPRS Data Rates, I Think
http://rss.com.com/2100-1039-991178.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news
"T-Mobile is cutting wireless-data subscription prices in half to lure more people onto its new high-speed cell phone networks, an executive with the German wireless provider said on Wednesday." Cool, but then they said "Under the new T-Mobile pricing plans, a megabyte of data costs $10, which is about half as much as European carriers now charge." 8O
What are you guys in Europe paying? I pay them $20/mo. for 10MB which is $2/MB, not $10/MB. Is that a misprint? The final quote was exactly on target! "Carriers have been pricing data based on spreadsheets, not on what consumers are willing to pay." Alex - I'll take "Things that make you go 'Duh!' for $100 please."
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03-06-2003, 09:17 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 73
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Prices in the UK are a bit of a mystery to me at the moment. From what I can work out I get 0.5mb for about �4 (about $6.40) but as soon as I go over that it's about �8 ($12.80) per 0.5mb. I got stung with a �225 ($360) mobile bill when I got it all wrong the other week.
That's only my mobile provider though, and I'm stupid. They aren't exactly embracing the technology though.
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03-06-2003, 09:18 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 1
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What's that? "a megabyte of data costs $10"? I'm with 'Ben', the Dutch daughter company of T-Mobile, and I'm already paying $5 / Mb. That must be a typo in the article...
However, for the $5 / Mb rate, another fixed monthly $5 is charged... maybe they mean that.
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03-06-2003, 09:23 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 268
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I believe T-Mobile charges you $10 per MB over your limit. So you pay X amount for a fixed amount of MB downloads, and $10 per MB you go over.
-arebelspy
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03-06-2003, 09:47 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,350
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I'm with Vodafone Netherlands. I pay EUR 40 for 20 MB, and keep paying EUR 2 per MB for every MB I go over my fixed plan.
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03-06-2003, 10:07 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 574
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I'm on the heavy user subscribtion of Ben (T-Mobile the netherlands), Eur 15 monthly subscription, 1 euro per Mb.
For lower use, i gathered that O2 was the cheapest in the netherlands.
Jaap
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03-06-2003, 10:27 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 262
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I'm with Mobistar (in Belgium) and I pay about �25 for 10Mb/month. Every aditional Mb costs �3.5...pretty pricy, but that's what you get for being an innovator 
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03-06-2003, 10:49 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 15
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In Austria it is cheaper - e.g. tele.ring has EUR 14.45 / first 20 MB monthly + 0.80/MB over limit or EUR 2/MB with no prepaid MB. A1 has more plans, generally EUR 1 / MB for data in limit and 1,50 over limit. The other operators are similar.
In Slovakia there is EUR 15 / 5 MB + 1 / MB over limit. Most users find the 3 / MB for the first 5 MB too much and don't subscribe for it :-(
10 EUR / MB is either typo, or price for GPRS roaming.
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03-06-2003, 11:18 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 607
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Cleary a mistake
I'm currently paying $5 for one mb, so it was clearly a mistake. I think we can all agree that they need to get on par with sprint ( the worst in the world) and offer unlimited for a set price. Thats why my ipaq and my t68i will never get a rest 
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03-06-2003, 12:35 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 3
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Hi, I think I can be satisfied with my providers plan. I pay T-Mobile Austria 7 Euros a Month for 10 MB. Then additional 1 Euro for every MB above the 10 MB limit. They count in 0.1 MB portions.
For GPRS Roaming I pay inside the t-mobile nets in Germany, GB, CZ, USA, Croatia, Hungary, NED, Slovakia 0.8 Euros per 0.1 MB, for other Providers in Europe between 0,95 and 1,50 Euros. For HongKong and Spain 3 Euros.
But I think GPRS will be much cheaper after they start UMTS and I think the infrastructure will then become also better.
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