Ive had a falling out with vodafone (it started when they sponsored the mancs). I have a phone with 3 and they seem to be advertising something similar, will this be as good (identical, it looks it) as the voda one? Are the limits and coverage the same? Anyone with any understanding of this lark?
Three is either cheaper (3gb for £15/month), or have higher data usage for the same price (7gb for £25/month). But their coverage is nowhere near as good. I signed up for a three modem last week and am now returning it as I could not get a 3G signal in several locations in Leicester, the most important being my house. The actual connection I was getting at home was unusable, it was slower than dial up and GPRS should actually be a bit faster than dial up. Of course in a different are, you might get excellent coverage and service but I didn't
I have now signed up for a vodafone £25/month for 12 months (by the way, the three contracts are 18months). I am going to use the cards I already own. A slower and older colt card, and a newer Huawei 1.8Mbps card. You can also get 2 types of USB modem, the round one which will work at 1.8Mbps also, and the brand new square one which will work at upto 7.2Mbps in some areas (about 2 at the moment!) but they are expanding. You can also get a 7.2Mbps Express card. I didn't bother with either of these 7.2Mbps devices as I can't get those speeds at the moment, and by the time I can there will be some on ebay for less than vodafone wanted to charge me (£50 or £100 depending on 12 or 18month contract).
I will be mainly using the 3G card in my linksys 3G router, so I can share it between several PCs. Then occaisionally on the move. It will be quite good to take the router, plug it in to a power socket and instantly have a hotstop for anyone to connect to
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