The best UK Internet allowance with giffgaff

by handy giff-staffer kimatgiffgaff 19-January-2010 18:20

Many giffgaffers have posted comments on our forums, blog and twitter talking about how happy they are to have free Internet with us until the end of May.Yes, we are quite proud of being the only mobile network offering free Internet but best value is sometimes not enough. What about our fair usage?

 

To help put things into context I thought it was important to understand what we mean by "fair usage". I’ve been through the T&Cs of all our competitors (so you don't have to...) and tried to check their limits for free or unlimited Internet:

 

  • Vodafone is not offering a free Internet bundle or reward. They charge it at 50p per day up to a maximum of 25MB.
  • Orange allows you 500MB per month with their Dolphin plan.
  • T-Mobile gives you 40MB per day with their “free texts and Internet for life” top-up reward.
  • Virgin goes up to 1GB per month.
  • 3-Mobile gives you 150MB for every top-up until it runs out.
  • O2 does not specify what their fair usage is.  

So what's giffgaff's limit? 100MB per day! Yuhhuuuu! This roughly equates to:

 

  • Visiting 2.000 websites a day.
  • Checking your facebook home page 6.000 times a day.
  • Tweeting 96.000 times a day. That is more than a Tweet per second for 24 hours!

Just watch out with your downloads, YouTube and Spotify usage and you're unlikely to reach that daily 100MB limit. Happy surfing giffgaffers.

Comments
by jamie 29-January-2010 19:57

When i was with o2 I got 1mb Of data per topup and for 7.50£ I got 500mb that was branded "Unlimited".

 

Thanks For the info .

by dogg(anon) 14-February-2010 01:02

Hiya.

Like many people I know, I am a "potential" giffgaffer. I'm very impressed with what you're doing.

But I do think giffgaff should clarify "asap" what their internet allowance will be after May!

I say this because, altho we are all very impressed with your call/txt rates, many people are still waiting for you to state what your future data/internet allowance/rates will be.

The sooner this is clarified, the sooner we can all sign up.

Peace Out.

by pen69 apprentice giffgaffer 14-February-2010 01:38

The above post by "dogg(anon)" was actually by me.

Sorry, I couldn't find my login details when i posted it 30mins ago.

by simon69c giffgaffer mentor 14-February-2010 11:45

While I would like to know giffgaff's data rates too, the way I see it you may as well join now and take advantage of the completely free data while you can. Then once the data rates are announced you can decide whether or not to stay on after May.  If you decide the data rates are too high then you can just get your PAC and take your number to another network and you've lost nothing - but probably save a lot between now and the end of May.

by chennaprateep 14-February-2010 22:00

what happens if u browse more then 100mb in a day?

 

its impossible to do tat but i was wodering wot the rate will be if u exceed it?

 

fave fun :smileyhappy:

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