PAYG Mobile Broadband - A gap in the market for VM to fill

[carlwaring]

I am not a great user of mobile broadband so it would be a complete waste of money for me to get any of the current Pay Monthly or even supposed PAYG mobile broadband packages as they are all x amount of data for y days (usually 30 of course.)

I would love to be able to pay for my mobile broadband in the same way I pay for my calls. For example, I pay £10 and get 1/5/10/whatever GB of data usage to use as and when I want/need it; ie it doesn't expire.

Of course, it may be that's not a commercially viable way to do it. I don't know.

Anyone got any thoughts?

[qasdfdsaq]

Umm, I don't recall anyone letting you pay for calls by buying £10 for X minutes of calls that won't expire. All of those packages are typically 30 days as well.

You can just as easily pay for data by the megabyte but as with calls buying a bundle will cost less.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Umm, I don't recall anyone letting you pay for calls by buying £10 for X minutes of calls that won't expire. All of those packages are typically 30 days as well.

Sorry. I meant the PAYG model where you pay £x which you then spend on calls @ 8ppm or whatever.

You can just as easily pay for data by the megabyte but as with calls buying a bundle will cost less.

Not in the way I explained above.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

Sorry. I meant the PAYG model where you pay £x which you then spend on calls @ 8ppm or whatever.

So you top up by £10 and then pay 8p per minute for calls.

Not in the way I explained above.

So you top up by £10 and then pay 3p per kilobyte for data.

I don't see the difference.

[carlwaring]

I have never seen a product like this the one you describe from any provider

The only ones I have seen are nGB for X days.

[Stephen]

Of course they will have an expiry on for it. Otherwise you may only by 1Gb and if you hardly use it, you might not top up again for 6 months.

They still need to make money off you

[RobboEdin]

Carl, I understand what you are after but I've not seen anything like it.

The best I have seen is T-Mobile 6 month web booster which costs £20 and gives you six months internet.

http://support.t-mobile.co.uk/help-a...OU_GO_BOOSTERS

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Of course they will have an expiry on for it. Otherwise you may only by 1Gb and if you hardly use it, you might not top up again for 6 months.

They still need to make money off you

Which is fair enough of course. Which is probably why we'll never see it happen!

Oh well.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

I have never seen a product like this the one you describe from any provider

This is how mobile data has worked on every provider since the day it was introduced.

---------- Post added at 10:58 ---------- Previous post was at 10:57 ----------

Originally Posted by Stephen

Of course they will have an expiry on for it. Otherwise you may only by 1Gb and if you hardly use it, you might not top up again for 6 months.

They still need to make money off you

Those "packages" were only introduced after half a decade of the pay-per-kilobyte/megabyte plans after customers wanted something cheaper/simpler.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

This is how mobile data has worked on every provider since the day it was introduced.

And yet no-one does it anymore, having replaced them all with the 'packages' you mention.

Amazon sell a Three SIM that has 3GB of data on it though you do have to use it within three months. That was £12 last time I checked so not too bad.

There is a 12GB/12 month one too but you can only get that direct from Three.

[qasdfdsaq]

3, Orange, O2, Vodafone, and T-Mobile, and GiffGaff all do it. That's all the major providers. I can't be bothered checking every MVNO seeing as you haven't bothered checking a single major network...

I don't see what your problem is with capped daily charges anyway. They're always cheaper than the pay-per-whatever you propose, nomatter how much you use.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

3, Orange, O2, Vodafone, and T-Mobile, and GiffGaff all do it. That's all the major providers. I can't be bothered checking every MVNO seeing as you haven't bothered checking a single major network...

I have though; and could not find provider who offered me xGB for £n to use as and when I wanted without expiration.

I don't see what your problem is with capped daily charges anyway. They're always cheaper than the pay-per-whatever you propose, no matter how much you use.

I don't have a problem with them. I just don't have a use for them; as previously explained.

[qasdfdsaq]

But that's not what you asked for.

You've changed your story twice already. Make up your mind.

[carlwaring]

No I haven't changed anything. However. It doesn't matter now. So forget it.