News - Three offers 500MB mobile broadband for £2

[HEXUS]

But there’s a catch - you have to use all that in 24 hours.

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[miniyazz]

A few years back when in University Halls we had a 500MB daily cap. I found myself using roughly half that with web browsing alone (nothing particularly fancy, no YouTube to speak of). It does sound a little pessimistic but perhaps not unreasonably so.

[matty-hodgson]

So that's about 32000 pages of Facebook in 24H then? . My 1GB allows me to visit about 64000 Facebook pages without going over (that's the figure they quote anyway).

This would be useful if you were downloading apps or something onto your phone, but can't see it being much more use than that really.

[Splash]

For those of us who occasionally have to spend the odd night or 2 in hotels for business it seems a fair deal - normal hotel WiFi rates come in at £5-10 a night, and the whining about East Coast starting to charge for WiFi in standard class (a shade under a fiver for an hour, a tenner for 24) suggests that with no commitment a couple of quid for a day of internet access may well have a decent market.

[Funkstar]

For those of us who occasionally have to spend the odd night or 2 in hotels for business it seems a fair deal - normal hotel WiFi rates come in at £5-10 a night, and the whining about East Coast starting to charge for WiFi in standard class (a shade under a fiver for an hour, a tenner for 24) suggests that with no commitment a couple of quid for a day of internet access may well have a decent market.

Good luck using 3G reliably in the train on the move

[muddyfox470]

Three tend to list all the things you can get in 500mb, so it is:

500 emails + 16 music tracks + 2 video clips + 5 hours of browsing = 500mb

They're not exclusive amounts. Just renewed my three mobile contract, £7.50pm, mifi router, 18 month contract 5gb allowance.

[Splash]

Good luck using 3G reliably in the train on the move

I've had pretty decent performance on the ECML from Newcastle down to Kings Cross. Not awesome, but certainly plenty to do some surfing and emailing. It's pretty much all the onboard WiFi uses tbh, though it's a setup with multiple providers (and 3 ain't one of them )

[Lucio]

TBH for a user who would otherwise typically connect to the Internet via their home or office WiFi, it's a pretty clever new trick to add. In fact, I'll be pointing my boss at this come work tomorrow as a decent alternative for us to use for trade shows, compared to paying out for hotel WiFi access.

[darkblueslider]

I pay £7.50 for 5GB a month with Three. Okay, i had to ring them up and cancel to get the half price offer, but there was no contract so wasn't exactly a massive risk.

good idea though.