EQO Community - Mobile Data Plans

Simyo (E-Plus) Germany

chakuza1984 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:28:05 -0700

With simyo you can enjoy the whole Mobile Internet on pretty low costs.Simyo is Prepaid and they charges only 0,24 € for 1 MB Data.Other Mobile Operators like T-Mobile,Vodafone or o2 charges 0,19 € for 10 KB.So simyo is the Best and the cheapest Way to keep in touch with your EQO Buddys,making Calls over it and writing Messages. :-) I hope this is helpfull... :-)

Prepaid SIM accounts - with data??

ob4icu — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:31:18 -0700

For those of us who travel and use local country pre-paid SIM cards, can people out there please let us know your experiences with different pre-paid SIM providers? Which ones include/allow data, so that we can use EQO with them?

For example, will a pre-paid SIM account with Orange UK include/allow data access to support EQO?

What about a pre-paid SIM account with T-Mobile USA?

France - SFR

ob4icu — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:26:41 -0700

SFR offers a 2 or 3 plans called "3G+ Illimité" but these use WAP and do not offer full TCP/IP connectivity. They are designed to offer unlimited web browsing (surf), but do not support full Internet access for non-HTTP applications. Fortunately, the clever engineers at EQO seem to have managed to get their data traffic to flow via the HTTP/WAP channel. When using/configuring EQO, just be sure to select the access point "Vodafone Live!" or "SFR WAP" and the EQO connections will be free and unlimited. If you select "SFR Internet" (which is true complete TCP/IP connection) SFR will charge you for the data used by EQO, with no additional benefit.

France - Orange provider

philippecau — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:12:56 -0800

Hi All !

Just a post to tell that if you are living in France, you can use EQO as an IM client in an unlimited way. If you subscribe to the "Orange Surf" option, and in EQO you "unselect" the TCP connection. In that way, all your data traffic will go through the "orange surf" option.

That's my tips ;)

Regards

UK data tariffs (as of January 2008)

christopherw — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:40:36 -0800

All of the main operators offer data packages: T-Mobile, Vodafone, Orange, O2 and Three (3, owned by Hutchison-Wampoa).

I'm on T-Mobile with their Web 'n Walk data package along with my Flext call package, and I've got to say (aside from them blocking port 21 late last year, which is avoidable if you just SSH into a server then tunnel through it) that it's pretty much flawless. Although they say otherwise, nothing else is barred - with my HTC Hermes (Vario 2) I can use it as a modem for my laptop (tethering), I can stream video and audio, I can use IRC, I can even use Skype (when I do use Skype Mobile, about once a year!). If I was planning on using these services more, I'd move to one of the higher tiers, but I'm happy where I am right now. I managed to get HSDPA provisioned on my account too, and I get blazingly-fast speeds in and around Birmingham (UK, where I live).

The allowance on the base WnW package is 1Gb a month for £7.50, but the nice thing is that if you go over your allowance for several months running, you may get a note via email or a call saying "please don't do it again" (or you may not), but they aren't religiously strict about overages.

From what I've heard, O2 (with their 1Gb package) and I've heard various things about Orange's "Unlimited" package (for £8 per month) including mentions of caps ranging from just 30Mb per month to 4Gb per month fair usage. I've never been an Orange customer though, so take that at face value. Orange have historicallly been very expensive though. VoIP, streaming services, instant messaging, and modem access from your laptop (aka 'tethering' is also apparently barred, which is a big pain in the arse for casual users like myself, that's why I like Web 'n Walk so much.)

Vodafone's £7.50 a month data plan gives you 350Mb fair usage per month - just over a third of what you get on T-Mobile. Similarly, O2's "Web bolt on" is £7.50 a month for 300Mb. Not a lot, really.

3 offer the most flexible set of data plans - their base package is just £5 a month for 1Gb, and their data cards and 3g modem packages (exclusively for PCs) are the cheapest - my mate has a USB 3G modem just for his laptop, which doesn't cost a lot at all. If you have a phone package with them, the addon for 1Gb of data is £5 a month (though I suspect they block VoIP as they promote their own Skype deal as part of their X-Series tariffs, which in fact works in an identical manner to EQO's own service - dialing a Skype access number to actually place the calls, thereby falling back to the 2G network. Three also charge for overages (but not as much as other networks!)

So, in summary, from personal experience I'd have to say that T-Mobile's offerings are the best - they don't have any overage charges and their allowances are quite generous for the price. I'm happy to stick with them for another 12 or 18 months after February (when my current contract ends).

about EDGE

com.freak — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:38:03 -0800

Hi,I'm a new eqo user.It's a great software!
I'm going to buy a new cell phone Sony Ericsson W960i.
My mobile service provider provides EDGE data plan for internet.
But Sony Ericsson doesn't support EDGE.It's only support GPRS,3G and Wi-fi! What I'v to do now?

Please let me know!

Sprint SERO

samlest — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:41:07 -0800

SERO for $30 a month gets you

Unlimted Text
Unlimted Data
Unlimited N/w at 7
500 Regular time minutes
free M/M on Sprint
and Pick 3 (any 3 numbers in any network)

Bell Canada - Unlimited Browsing for $7

chris — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:55:23 -0800

Check it out, Bell Canada has come around and is now offering unlimited browsing and email for $7:

http://www.bell.ca/shopping/MBUN.details

That's cheap for Canadians, but about $7billion a month for Americans what with the current exchange.

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist

Cheap plan with Rogers Wireless in Canada

chris — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:39:09 -0800

Here in Canada Rogers Wireless is offering 5MB for $5 or 10MB for $10. This is about as good as it gets in Canada, check it out:

internet.asp...

Chris
EQO Customer Evangelist