Re: [OT] GPRS useage

[Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh bummer!

I am on Vodafone ... :-(

I better ring up and find out how much their GPRS costs per meg then.

You know if you use IM over GPRS, does it only send info when you send a=20
message? or is it constantly talking? I haven't tried it yet was wondering=
=20
if anyone knew before trying it!

Ho yin

At 12:38 05/10/2004, you wrote:
>One of the things I found out with using GPRS for a tracking system,
was
>that the amount of data you send through does not match up with the
>amount you get billed. On average we found that it was 10 times the
>amount we transmitted. This was with Vodafone.
>
>Seems that you pay for all the retries when using TCP/IP over the GPRS
>connection and believe me, there are loads of them.
>
>Dave...
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>Mark McCall wrote:
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> > > Are there differences in price between each mobile provider?
For GPRS=
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> > Lots of different tarrifs.  Mine (O2) was =A35 a MEG!! Few months
ago t=
hey
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