* Mobile broadband

[Steve L]

I have just come across a rather annoying issue with pay as you go broadband.

We have a * mobile payg dongle for our laptop which works very well indeed, but has 33% less usability than the same dongle on a monthly contract.

Get one on £15 monthly contract and you get 3Gb download allowance.

Get a pay as you go, put £15 on it txt 30 day to 441 and you get 30 days (basically 1 month) but only 2Gb download allowance.

Now basically in essence one is buying exactly the same number of days for exactly the same outlay of £15.

So is that fair trading or is it just forcing people to disclose bank details for a direct debit so that the mobile service provider has control of your purse strings, so that at a later date they can charge more without you having to do anything except read the legally approved notice of increase of direct debit letter.

Oh, what ever happened to good old fair trading and cash being king?

Steve L.

 

[trucker]

Steve, its the same with mobile phone contracts v payg.

If you use all of your

 

[Oldsalt49]

Steve,

I have a Vodafone PAYG dongle, which cast

 

[WoodlandsCamper]

Remember, with the Vodaphone dongle, you need to use it at least once every 6 months to keep it activated, otherwise Vodaphone will cancel the line. This is the same for all mobile phone payg networks.

 

[trucker]

thanks for that Woodland, didnt know that

Kevin