Thursday, 26 June 2008

USB 3G Modem....to keep or not to keep?

Its getting towards the end of my 7 day money back offer with the 3G USB stick from T-Mobile UK. I ordered the device to give me decent Internet while on a coach trip of 2.5 hours each way. That was yesterday and I was very impressed with the speed - even YouTube loads quick with no buffering - and just now I downloaded a song off iTunes in 15 seconds over 3G...God knows how quick full HSDPA would be!


Its really quick!


So anyway, the cost to keep the service would be £15 per month and that capped to 3GB per month, but - unlike Vodafone - if you go over the allowence you wont be punished financially the first few times. I currently don't travel all that often, but I will plan to when at University in London in October, and my Dad doesn't have Internet so it would be great when visiting him.

Financially I can afford it with my current job and my £24 per month gym membership will get cancelled in 3 months' time before heading to University, so then I'd be paying less per month as long as my phone bill remaind sensible.

I want to keep it, 'cos its cool, quick and very useful in certain circumstances...but on the other hand I may end up paying for a month having not actually used it in that month.


Its only 50p per day.


Maybe I could become one of those guys who sits in coffee shops all day to make use of it...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

You were thinking about this at 4am?!