Adrian Stott wrote: > Steve Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No dial-up on the Staffs & Worcs as far as I know ;-) > > T-Mobile still provides it. But I think you are actually using it, > and calling it "GPRS". > >> I'm on an unlimited data contract with Vodafone which is better than ADSL in >> some >> locations and worse than dial-up in others. At my present mooring >> (Tixall) I'm getting around 3kbps via GPRS, which is not much use for >> anything except email. > > Mobile broadband might well prove less expensive for you. I think the > cheapest packages are about a tenner a month, with unlimited > downloading including Skype for about £25 which would cover most of > the cost of your outgoing phone calls. It would also often be 1,000 > times as fast! (i.e. 3 Meg instead of 3 kilo)!
I might be missing something - I'm not an expert in mobile comms - but aren't you recommending what Steve already has. AIUI, Steve's on a system which gives him 3G where it's available but falls back to GPRS where it isn't - like on the S&W. What does mobile broadband give you that's any different?
