| Back in 2000 Mobile Phone Operators purchased | | | | mobile phones. |
| licences to open up a whole new way to using our | | | | Vodafone; and their "Vodafone live" product has |
| mobile phones. Seven years on, it doesn't quite | | | | always been high profile in the market. Like other |
| paint the picture that they had all hoped for, with | | | | networks, they are expected be releasing an |
| 96% of us still remaining to use of our phones to | | | | unlimited tariff soon, amongst their many mobile |
| text and talk. | | | | phone deals already on offer. |
| Fortunately for operators and the people behind | | | | Three; are currently charging, as other networks |
| the purchase of the licences; one area that has | | | | are, £5 per month for unlimited access to |
| taken off is that of internet access and have | | | | the internet (subject to their fair use policy). If |
| began to offer deals for our mobile phones which | | | | you only expect to generate a small amount of |
| will entice us further into the third-generation of | | | | data charges per month then you can either pay |
| mobile technology. | | | | £2.50 per month or not commit and pay |
| From the start, mobile networks have offered | | | | £2 per MB used. |
| data on a per MB basis. This meant that for | | | | O2; currently only has bolt-on's for their |
| every MB that is used; a charge of around | | | | customers but as with the others, this is |
| £3 is applied to your account, dependent | | | | expected to change. For the same price as the |
| on the network, but all has started to change. | | | | unlimited internet on other tariffs, you are able to |
| Orange; recently decided to launch cut-price deals | | | | download 4MB of data. |
| which included free content. By offering a flat | | | | If you use your mobile phone to simply access |
| tariff, they hope to capture the market and like all | | | | the internet and check your emails then these |
| other operators they hope to give better clarity | | | | tariffs existing and future releases are for you. If |
| for their customers. | | | | it's a combination of that and accessing the |
| T-Mobile; has managed to raise the most | | | | internet via your laptop then most networks are |
| awareness of its data tariffs, namely "web'n'walk" | | | | offering a more superior tariff which bolts onto |
| which, depending on the tariff, gives their | | | | your existing tariff and doesn't carry as much |
| customers the option to pay as little as £5 | | | | restriction. |
| per month for unlimited internet usage on their | | | | |