Give me a flat rate GPRS/3G plan, get a new customer

Tom Morris gushes with praise for the Orange mobile network in the UK who offer a flat-rate GPRS plan -

I can buy megabytes for £1 each or pay £1 and use it all day long. This is probably the cheapest GPRS access on offer from any of the UK phone companies, and is pretty competitive internationally.

So when the hell is one of the blood sucking Irish networks going to offer something similar? I'll switch right away to the first one that does, if it's not my current provider, Vodafone. And you can chalk that down as my one and only new year's resolution!

Comments

[Mark O'Neill]

I use Vodafone in Ireland and am regularly shocked at the cost of GPRS there. But I stick with them because they have reasonable deals on upgrades and they unlock their phones without any quibbles [in fact, last year, they shipped an unlocked 6630 to me in Boston, at no shipping cost to me]. Here in the US I use T-Mobile with my unlocked Vodafone-branded 6680, because T-Mobile has an all-you-can-eat GPRS plan. It's amazing how much this plan changed my phone use behaviour. I use my phone for reading news (RTE, BBC, Boston.com), I have it set up to automatically download my email headers, I send photos to FlickR all the time directly from the phone, etc. If I was paying by the Kb for GPRS, I wouldn't do anything of these things.

[James Corbett]

Mark that's exactly the usage I can't understand the networks being so blind to. They'd actually make a lot *more* money off me if they gave me an 'all you can eat' plan.