23 Mar
2012
23 Mar
'12
12:06 p.m.
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 23/03/12 11:19, Tim Connors wrote:
Back to Luv-talk. Who's that with? I haven't found/deciphered any such
plans like that.
--
Tim Connors
(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. 
6 Apr
6 Apr
1:52 p.m.
New subject: Any practical way to improve glacial page downloads?
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:06:59PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Toby Corkindale wrote:
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 23/03/12 11:19, Tim Connors wrote:
Back to Luv-talk. Who's that with? I haven't
found/deciphered any such
plans like that. (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.
2:45 p.m.
New subject: Any practical way to improve glacial page downloads?
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Robin Humble wrote:
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
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>>
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