Comments on: Mobile Internet access

By: Tips on travelling with a laptop « Successful Software

Tips on travelling with a laptop « Successful Software — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:48:14 +0000

[...] roaming charges for using my UK three networks mobile Internet in New Zealand are an outrageous £6/MB. Vodaphone has more sensible roaming charges for some [...]

By: Mobile Internet access in New Zealand? « Successful Software

Mobile Internet access in New Zealand? « Successful Software — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:10:33 +0000

[...] but I would like to have mobile Internet access as a back-up. Unfortunately it looks as if my UK mobile Internet provider doesn’t even support roaming in NZ. Even if I swap to another UK provider, roaming [...]

By: LIANG WIN

LIANG WIN — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:53:28 +0000

I have also taken Reliance data card and till now spent Rs. 5000 on the modem and on paying the bills extra. They had given me a white data card which was returned and also the executive said that many of them complain on its use and the cost and the accesbility. Instead of this i was replaced with a ZTE model which was an open piece. I requested for a close box , new piece but the executive said as ur piece was open and used he had to give me an open data card modem. I used that for around 3 months but always getting disconnected. After complaining, the guy says he will help me with it but as far as my experience is with reliance, Ambani was very true in what he said….karlo duniya apni mutthi mein…” Sabka maal apna mutthi mein”…
I would request everyone not to ever go for any reliance data card…or reliance mobiles…they are utterly rubbish…
I have invested so much on this data card instead i could get gold for me which would alteast be genuine with me.

By: The view from my office « Successful Software

The view from my office « Successful Software — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:26:16 +0000

[...] answering emails isn’t too onerous. Certainly it is better than not going on holiday. Truly mobile Internet access is a wonderful [...]

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:05:31 +0000

Vasudev,

Some useful tips, thanks. Looks like data roaming charges are pretty horrific. If I go abroad I will probably have to buy a SIM card locally.

By: Vasudev Ram

Vasudev Ram — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:55:57 +0000

Not too sure, but this post by Fred Wilson (I mean the comments to it) might help, since he seems to have a similar problem to you and asked his readers for advice:

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/06/how-best-to-be.html

And since he has *lots* of readers, there’s a chance that there may be some good tips – sort of “the wisdom of crowds” …

- Vasudev

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:42:48 +0000

>You didn’t get the idea from me at the conference by any chance, did you?

Quite possibly. I will steal a good idea from anyone. ;0)

>Go and take a decent holiday. You’ve earned it!

I am supposed to be on holiday today. Unfortunately my son has a really nasty stomach bug. So we aren’t going anywhere. :0(

By: Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:34:46 +0000

Hi Andy,

We’ve done exactly the same, albeit on the £15/month plan (3Gb data/month). You didn’t get the idea from me at the conference by any chance, did you? ;)

The only issue we have had with it is a complete dead spot (no 3G, and barely any GPRS) at one of our customer sites in rural Hampshire.

Aside from that, it’s been a very worthwhile investment – even managing to hold a 3G connection most of the way from Waterloo to Dover on the Eurostar last year. The only thing missing are reasonable roaming charges, of course…but that’s a bugbear with all mobile solutions at the moment.

Go and take a decent holiday. You’ve earned it!

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:07:49 +0000

>It was so new, it wasn’t finished.

That is very poor. Centre Parcs isn’t exactly cheap.

>they’re giving us the same holiday again

Hopefully not exactly the same.

By: Tim Haughton

Tim Haughton — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:35:59 +0000

Andy, I did the Center Parcs thing this last weekend. Our villa, for all its newness, was a disaster. It was so new, it wasn’t finished. The Sauna wasn’t in, the Wifi consisted of a bare phone cable hanging down from a roof, and a huge wall mounted mirror fell off and shattered in one of the bathrooms, we mentioned something about trading standards and the health and safety executive, and they’re giving us the same holiday again in July :)

But I digress. At the Sherwood one at least, all the communal buildings had Wifi. So the information centre, sports halls etc.