Can Someone Explain What Vodafone are Smoking?

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I pre-ordered my iPad 3G today, and had them toss in an Orange SIM for 20p extra (what it doesn't say in the image below is that they have a pay per use deal where it's 5p per megabyte, and you can add on any of those daily/weekly/monthly plans on an ad-hoc basis - I like this). When I pre-ordered there were only details for Orange and O2 up. Now they've added Vodafone too and ... well, yeah, no.



HOW MUCH????

I expect 3 will come out with something as well, but that T-Mobile is unlikely to since they're merging with Orange. I like how the device is unlocked and the Orange SIM doesn't tie you in to a monthly contract, so I can chop and change data carriers at will.

Also posted at http://auntysarah.dreamwidth.org/239783.html - you can comment here or there.

Comments

[pplfichi.livejournal.com]

...Or just get a dongle and use the SIM from that? Looking it up, Vodafones dongle prices are much more reasonable then the table at £15 for 5GB. Is the extra tenner they want for hotspots of something.

My three sim is a couple of years old and at £10 a month for 3GB I'm sure you can do better then this now especially if you don't need a wifi hotspot subscription.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

I have a Three dongle, but I hear that Three may have been deactivating accounts if they detect the SIM is being used in an iPad, which is a bit faily.

[makomk.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I don't think 3 used to have any restrictions on what you could stick your mobile broadband SIM in, and they actually offer the pay-as-you-go mobile broadband options on their normal PAYG sims. (My girlfriend's apparently using a normal PAYG sim in her laptop's integrated 3G modem for this reason.)