The UK's biggest network operator, Vodafone, has announced that it's abolishing the 15MB data limit, set only a few months ago, in favour of a system by which customers can "browse the mobile internet as much as they like" for 50p a day on an ad-hoc basis. It's a system that works well, and one which I use often with a whole brace of PAYG SIM cards. Digging deeper reveals that the new limit is 25MB, not a massive increase, but this is now a 'fair use' figure rather than a hard-coded limit and (thankfully) you won't be charged extra without contact first from Vodafone to warn you about excessive data use (e.g. if you tether to a laptop or similar).
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its been 25mb for quite some months now, really old news is this
What the above said. But its just like vodafone not to tell anyone anything useful for them.
Please tell me this 25MB limit is supposed to be 25*G*B or something. 25MB? I go through that while sitting on the can in the morning reading RSS, much less for an entire freakin day!
25MB doesnt sound to impressive eaven if it's per day.
that would be something like 750MB a month
At least in Sweden most carriers have 5G as "unlimited" cap, only exception I know of is Telenor who still means unlimited when they say so. My peak usage sofar was 170G one month, but that was an exception, normally I land arround 25-30G
So they have matched the price that T-Mobile Web n' Walk has had for months already, except the T-Mobile limit is in GB.
I disagree, the 15MB for 50p tariff was introduced in May, if I remember right? Suspect the 25MB 'soft' limit went live at the start of July - but yes, it's not like Vodafone actually told anyone about it until yesterday! Anyway, it was welcome news to me, so I thought I'd share it etc.
I'm on the Addict Tariff (payg) with Virgin, 30p per day for 25Mb or if you top up with �20 its unlimited, capped at 1Gb, but you get unlimited free texts too, capped at 3000, but good enough for me. 😊 Will be sticking with Virgin till something better comes along. 😉
This is a pathetic from Vodafone, 50p per day for 25mb?
Someone really has to stop them using the word "unlimited" for a limit that restricts you to about 50 full-on webpages a day.
Even one single podcast could take you over 25mb.
How on EARTH can they claim that's reasonable use? Maybe that might have been reasonable 5 or 10 years ago but modern phones (even the cheaper models!) have far better internet apps and higher internet access speeds too so they'll burn through data far more quickly.
And don't let Vodafone tell you it's physically impossible to have a higher limit, I've got a 10 euro monthly fee which gives me uncapped access, truly unlimited. I've regularly gone into several gigabytes a month, and never had to pay more than 10 euros.
people are not realising the 50p a day for 25mb is not a subscription service its just the standard rate for anyone who does not have a subscription.
if you dont use the internet then you dont pay the 50p
A step in the right direction but 25 meg per day is still a bit mean, unlimited should be unlimited.
Yes, absolutely right - the thing here is that you ONLY pay 50p if you use the internet that days etc. Many days I'm office-based and I hardly use any data. Total data bill for my main SIM card is about �10 a month. I have another 6 SIMs (in an assortment of test/trial handsets usually) and only use data every now and then on them. My TOTAL data AND voice costs for all *7* of my SIMs is less than �20 a month. Reckon me a fan of the system anyway.
wow slitchfield vodafone are certainly not going to get rich on your usage. :icon14:
slitchfield wrote:Yes, absolutely right - the thing here is that you ONLY pay 50p if you use the internet that days etc. Many days I'm office-based and I hardly use any data. Total data bill for my main SIM card is about �10 a month. I have another 6 SIMs (in an assortment of test/trial handsets usually) and only use data every now and then on them. My TOTAL data AND voice costs for all *7* of my SIMs is less than �20 a month. Reckon me a fan of the system anyway.
I am in the same situation, about �5 per month max on PAYG using the ASDA tariff (8p per minute calls, 4p text, 20p per MB data). I am so often near Wi-Fi that data is hardly ever touched.
I am sure that there are millions of people wasting money on contracts.