KennyVader
10-01-2008, 15:17
When I first read this I thought "cool! free wifi! T-Mobile (http://www.thedvdforums.com/affiliatelink.php?localaffiliateid=78) rock!".
http://www.opt-development.co.uk/press-office/release.php?id=151
London, UK “ 9 January 2007: WiFi and high-speed 3G (HSDPA) are being fused together for the first time today. T-Mobile announces the integration of its ground-breaking web’n’walk price plan with its UK network of WiFi HotSpots to offer its customers the best mobile data network, with unprecedented access to broadband on the go at unbeatable prices.
But then things started turning sour as I realised they seem pretty determined to screw over all their existing customers by making this a new customers only deal :mad:. Why do that?
But now I've thought about it some more, I'm wondering "is it all that"? Apart from the times when T-Mo data service loses the plot entirely, which seems to happen for a couple of hours once a month (and no amount of rebooting the phone seems to help, you just have to wait until you're in a different cell or they fix their data centre), it's pretty rare that I'm out of T-Mo coverage BUT in an area where there IS wifi coverage.
I mean if I go to my friend's house which is in the middle of the country with no T-Mo voice or data coverage, or my parents house that is in central Newcastle but for some reason has never had much of a T-Mo signal, well neither of these places have a Starbucks or other public wifi around anyway. The only places you get Starbucks and other wifi networks is town centres where there is (apart from the Newcastle anomoly) decent 3G coverage anyway, so you would rarely switch to WiFi.
It'd be great if the free wifi extended to Europe so as to save roaming costs when visiting say Paris, but I very much doubt that it will.
Thoughts anyone?
http://www.opt-development.co.uk/press-office/release.php?id=151
London, UK “ 9 January 2007: WiFi and high-speed 3G (HSDPA) are being fused together for the first time today. T-Mobile announces the integration of its ground-breaking web’n’walk price plan with its UK network of WiFi HotSpots to offer its customers the best mobile data network, with unprecedented access to broadband on the go at unbeatable prices.
But then things started turning sour as I realised they seem pretty determined to screw over all their existing customers by making this a new customers only deal :mad:. Why do that?
But now I've thought about it some more, I'm wondering "is it all that"? Apart from the times when T-Mo data service loses the plot entirely, which seems to happen for a couple of hours once a month (and no amount of rebooting the phone seems to help, you just have to wait until you're in a different cell or they fix their data centre), it's pretty rare that I'm out of T-Mo coverage BUT in an area where there IS wifi coverage.
I mean if I go to my friend's house which is in the middle of the country with no T-Mo voice or data coverage, or my parents house that is in central Newcastle but for some reason has never had much of a T-Mo signal, well neither of these places have a Starbucks or other public wifi around anyway. The only places you get Starbucks and other wifi networks is town centres where there is (apart from the Newcastle anomoly) decent 3G coverage anyway, so you would rarely switch to WiFi.
It'd be great if the free wifi extended to Europe so as to save roaming costs when visiting say Paris, but I very much doubt that it will.
Thoughts anyone?