vdx29
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2009-11-07
, 13:42
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#261
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2009-11-07
, 14:20
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@ England
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#262
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2009-11-07
, 15:45
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#263
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Data is 30 pence for each day that you use it, unlimited. Virgin's definition of "unlimited" means up to 25 megabytes (after which there's a steep per-megabyte charge). Or, for £5 from your PAYE balance, you can buy their Mobile Internet Bundle.
Unlimited use is within the UK and is for your personal, non-commercial use only. It doesn’t include making internet phone or video calls, peer to peer file sharing, using your phone as a modem, or while you are abroad and any of these uses will be charged at the per MB data rate for your tariff outlined in our Tariff Table.
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2009-11-07
, 16:02
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@ Edinburgh
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2009-11-07
, 16:15
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@ London (UK) / Zielona Góra (PL)
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People in the UK who are planning to mostly use the N900 for data, and who only make occasional use of voice or SMS, may wish to consider the Virgin PAYG SIM.
Data is 30 pence for each day that you use it, unlimited. Virgin's definition of "unlimited" means up to 25 megabytes (after which there's a steep per-megabyte charge). Or, for £5 from your PAYE balance, you can buy their Mobile Internet Bundle. This runs for a month, and is unlimited. Virgin's definition of "unlimited" means 1 GB, but if you exceed that it seems that you go back on to the 30p per day charge for any days that you use internet over the rest of the month.
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2009-11-07
, 17:41
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@ London, UK
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I'd rather suggest Vodafone TopUp And Go. It comes in a bundle with USB modem, however you could stick modem on eBay and keep SIM card that gives 1GB of transfer without any time limits for £15 top-up (inital package is already topped up). I am using it myself and I can surely recommend it, and I'm going to use it with N900 when it finally arrives.
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2009-11-07
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@ London (UK) / Zielona Góra (PL)
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#267
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Their website suggests this is a data only SIM. Can you confirm if you also get a regular GSM voice number please?
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2009-11-07
, 18:06
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@ Oxford
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2009-11-07
, 18:18
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@ London, UK
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#269
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Yes, this is data-only plan. Voice calls are actually disabled on this plan (although you get a number, of course). Text messages are working OK, afair.
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2009-11-07
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@ London, UK
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#270
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I'm fairly sure the Vodafone PAYG dongle SIMs don't allow you to send text messages. You can receive them OK, of course, but then that doesn't require any billing.
It would be interesting to pair a data only SIM with a VOIP service that provides a normal phone number, but it seems a bit risky - you'd only have voice calling when you had a decent 3G connection, whereas a normal SIM will get you basic GSM voice even in quite poor reception areas.
If it were me, I'd go for the data-only SIM if the N900 was only going to be a computer, and I was going to keep another phone for phone type stuff, but I'm not.