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This workmanlike black box is O2′s attempt at capturing a bit of the 3G Wi-Fi hotspot scene that’s currently dominated by Three’s popular MiFi dongle, with the network offering its new O2 Pocket Hotspot for £59.99.
That money gets you the unit itself. The idea is you pay another charge for a larger chunk of data when you need it, with O2 offering its users 1GB of data for £10.21 or 2GB for £15.32, both of which expire after 30 days. There’s also a 200MB daily option, accessible for £2.04 a day, ideal for people not very good at maths.
Five mobile things can connect to it at once, although splitting a crackly 3G signal five ways won’t feel particularly satisfying. [O2]
I feel sorry for people with no Wifi hotspots on their phones
That’s the thing, if someone is tech savvy enough to configure and use one of those, why don’t they have a smart phone with hotspot?
My brain cannot compute.
Because you can unlock (if locked), take this to places abroad and use a local data SIM.
Same thing with the phone
What, put a local SIM to your phone? How is that going to work when people try call you?
Ugh, where is the edit button?
I have different methods when I am abroad, and they all depend on the kind of trip.
1- Two phones, one cheap and a smartphone swap sim cards.
2- One phone with foreign sim and family is instructed to email or call the new number, if they want to talk to you badly enough they will have to pay for the call.
3- My third and favourite method, no phone, these are usually holidays and the lack of phone makes it even better.
I like option 3! Unfortunately, I have to stay connected at all times.
I nearly made the mistake of buying a 3 portable wifi hotspot about 6 months ago until I worked out how to use my Android…..money saved, big smile for the occasional time my hardline broadband goes down (rare).
certain contract and PAYG lock out hotspot on iphones. Sadly like 3 these also have a “Use it or Lose it” policy on data usage. There are some old vodafone PAYG sims trading at higher prices that dont expire the data usuage and are great in a jail broken mifi
Fantastic. I’ll get one and use it when I’m at the Olympics.
Will be great to give the Wifi police the run-around!
https://twitter.com/SadaoTurner/status/230737352958566401
That’s ridiculous pricing! I have a 3 MiFi which I actually rely on as my home internet… it costs me £15.98 a month for 15GB. Which I think is a pretty snazzy deal compared to the cost of O2′s offering!