GPRS charges

Sam Vimes

i just had a typical meteor customer care conversation so i have to come here and get the answer. this is how the conversation went:

me:when using GPRS, do you get charged for sending data as well as receiving it?

him:hold please.................................

him:you get charged for sending but not for receiving

me: that can't be right. you definitely get charged for receiving data

him: no, that's right

me: so you're telling me i can download a whole website to my phone and it won't cost anything

him: no, that will cost money

me: but i'd be receiving the data and you said that's free

him: no, you'd be taking the data, not receiving it. if you receive something like an email its free but if you send an email it costs money

me: ok, thanks......bye......./head explode

so, does the cent/kilobyte amount charge for upload as well as download?

Random

You see - I'd have not got off the phone until I got the answer. Ring back!

Sam Vimes

ciaranfo wrote:

You see - I'd have not got off the phone until I got the answer. Ring back!

i think the rapture might come before my answer

Tree

think their charges are 2c/kb in any direction. pretty much the same as vodafone's off portal browsing costs

and they've no proper security settings so you can't use some web sites like m.gmail.com and you cant get server settings to use pop3

Tree

Tree wrote:

and they've no proper security settings so you can't use some web sites like m.gmail.com and you cant get server settings to use pop3

I was testing last night, if you use their ISP APN the security works. But you need to call to opt in and half of them don't know what you're on about.

But yeah, they've no SMTP server so sending e-mail is a no-no, unless its an eircom account and their SMTP goes on one of its usual "whitelist everybody" moments.

donutface

Gmail has its own SMTP server, but its SSL encrypted so the chances of your phone supporting that is doubtfull to say the least.

donutface

donutface wrote:

Gmail has its own SMTP server, but its SSL encrypted so the chances of your phone supporting that is doubtfull to say the least.

The Motorola V535 supports SSL, but it doesn't support authentication so you're still in a limbo.