Re: [luv-talk] Any practical way to improve glacial page downloads?
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 23/03/12 11:19, Tim Connors wrote:
(I was just looking at smart phone prepaid plans. None are suitable for me. I want to pay less than $20 per month, which I can do with a non smartphone by virtue of having some credit that can last 365 days, as long as I don't use it. Which I don't. Very few providers seem to realise that not everyone wants to talk and text on their phone all day every day. Sometimes we only want something for emergencies because we're unsociable bastards).
I pay $10 a month (post-paid) and get 1500 MB of data (excluding social media, which is free) and more calls and SMS than I use if I try! (I think around 2000 SMS?)
The options are out there.
Back to Luv-talk. Who's that with? I haven't found/deciphered any such plans like that. -- Tim Connors
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:06:59PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 23/03/12 11:19, Tim Connors wrote:
(I was just looking at smart phone prepaid plans. None are suitable for me. I want to pay less than $20 per month, which I can do with a non smartphone by virtue of having some credit that can last 365 days, as long as I don't use it. Which I don't. Very few providers seem to realise that not everyone wants to talk and text on their phone all day every day. Sometimes we only want something for emergencies because we're unsociable bastards). I pay $10 a month (post-paid) and get 1500 MB of data (excluding social media, which is free) and more calls and SMS than I use if I try! (I think around 2000 SMS?)
The options are out there. Back to Luv-talk. Who's that with? I haven't found/deciphered any such plans like that.
I'm pretty happy with $1/month http://www.tpg.com.au/mobile/pay-as-you-go the only expensive bit is leaving and retrieving messages, but you can turn all that off in tpg's settings. there's $41 in setup cost too. I have this plan for a 7" phone/tablet which is mostly on wifi and only very infrequently used as a phone or with mobile data. pretty happy with it. network is optus. <<apologies for coming into this thread very late>> cheers, robin
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Robin Humble wrote:
Back to Luv-talk. Who's that with? I haven't found/deciphered any such plans like that.
I'm pretty happy with $1/month http://www.tpg.com.au/mobile/pay-as-you-go
the only expensive bit is leaving and retrieving messages, but you can turn all that off in tpg's settings. there's $41 in setup cost too.
I have this plan for a 7" phone/tablet which is mostly on wifi and only very infrequently used as a phone or with mobile data. pretty happy with it. network is optus.
<<apologies for coming into this thread very late>>
Damn. Too late for me, although the tradeoffs I made in the end needed to take into account getting a good phone cheaply. Whose towers does it go through? Vodafone's coverage ain't brilliant - when I was north of the Flinders ranges a few weeks ago, I was outside of vodafone coverage for many days on end (I was only a few hours from Adelaide when I reobtained it briefly). I actually found a place at Parachillna with copious quantities of high-latency satellite hosted on free-wifi - a couple of days before I got back to civilisation. Good thing I had my laptop with me (came in handy when I filled up the card on my camera too :) -- Tim Connors
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