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Gigabags not so great

Started by: demolition49
On: 22/08/2012 | 02:35
Replies: 21
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by: rochessel
on: 22/08/2012 | 10:58
You still get the free gg stuff regardless .. A friend of mine uses his in his phone and dongle.
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Message 11 of 22
by: bitgeek
on: 22/08/2012 | 11:00

rochessel wrote:
You still get the free gg stuff regardless .. A friend of mine uses his in his phone and dongle.

I guess, I doubt this is a popular trend amongst gigabag users though Smiley Tongue

Message 12 of 22
by: rochessel
on: 22/08/2012 | 11:03
Could be more popular then you think many people trying to grab all the good deals where they can if it's going to save a few penny's here and there Smiley Wink
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Message 13 of 22
by: almus
on: 22/08/2012 | 11:33
I've been saying this all along. Giffgaff need to rethink their gigabag pricing structure to come more into line with goodybag rates.
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Message 14 of 22
by: bitgeek
on: 22/08/2012 | 11:41

almus wrote:
I've been saying this all along. Giffgaff need to rethink their gigabag pricing structure to come more into line with goodybag rates.

Two different market groups and so there are two different prices. Smiley Wink

Message 15 of 22
by: mattsuch
on: 22/08/2012 | 16:18
Not everyone can get an O2 signal either. ( note you also get free calls and texts on THREE as well ).
Message 16 of 22
by: demolition49
on: 23/08/2012 | 02:00
This doesnt retract from the fact giffgaff are EXPONENTIALLY more expensive for 3gb versus threes 10gb package! Sure you think people wont use 10gb! But thats your opinion... My point is for the benefit of the consumer and giffgaff it would be a good idea to introduce say a 10gb goodybag more in line with threes pricing range and to bring the 3gb databag in line with that particular rate, slightly more expensive may be acceptable because of economies of scale... But apart from that we ARE getting ripped off for the 3gb databag there is no way around it. If giffgaff were to offer another gigabag all it would do is expand the potential market which is good and it also enables us the consumers to pass this on and reccommend to more people... This would be mutually beneficial to both giffgaff and us (the consumers)
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by: azelphur
on: 23/08/2012 | 03:03 edited: 23/08/2012 | 03:07

Dropping in to put in my two cents Smiley Tongue

 

Google has started moving towards dropping the MicroSD card on Android devices (*points at Nexus 7*), with the goal of using cloud storage as an alternative, this means that tablet data usage is going to soar, most likely on the next wave of Nexus devices due out in December this year. With this in mind you can pretty much categorically say that no, 3GB will not be enough.

 

Ignoring the whole cloud storage thing for a second, 3GB still ain't enough, sorry. It just isn't.

Lets demonstrate this with an example, youtube!

I looked at a video review, it was 5 minutes and 48 seconds long, the download size was 58.35MB at 720p

Using these numbers we can make a reasonable estimate that watching youtube at 720p exhausts around 10.06MB/min of bandwidth

Given our 3GB download limit, this gives us around 298 minutes of youtube viewing every month, or a mere 10 minutes a day. Given the average length of a youtube video (around 4 minutes), this means you can watch 1-2 youtube videos a day, any more than that and you'll go over your limit before the end of the month.

 

This is all without even accounting for anything else you might use your tablet for, such as video calling (skype), browsing, app downloads, etc. All things that are commonplace these days. These things will knock a huge hole in your bandwidth, making that 10 minutes a day much lower, and again as I previously mentioned, this situation is about to get astronomically worse with Android forcing everyone into cloud data storage and video streaming.

 

As for the competing offering from 3, it's a monthly rolling contract much like giffgaff is, you are not tied in, and of course the £/GB is far better on the three plan, if someone was asking me what plan to get on a tablet, I certainly wouldn't be recommending a 3GB plan, I really like giffgaff (I use it on my mobile and love the unlimited bandwidth) but the data offerings simply are not useful unless you are the type of person that sits at home on wifi the majority of the time.

 

Before you jump in and say "BUT YOU CAN USE TEH WIFIZ!!!11!1!1", I feel the need to point out that...if you can use wifi all the time I'd be dubious as to if you needed a mobile plan at all, or a tablet for that matter. The whole point of mobile devices with mobile internet connections is to enable you to be mobile, they are rather pointless if you spend the majority of your time holed up in your house, using your home connection. You may as well just have a laptop or PC, which are far more powerful than a tablet.

 

As for the pricing, a quick review of a price comparison site reveals that all 3 of the giffgaff deals can either be matched or beaten by other provides, so at best giffgaff is simply matching the competition rather than beating it.

 

tl;dr 3GB is /NOT/ enough already, and the situation is only going to get astronomically worse in the near future. As per the thread title the giffgaff goodybags are indeed not that great, and need to be heavily supplemented with wifi usage in order to be usable by even the average user (lets not even touch on heavy users) in todays world. The pricing isn't amazing either, and a tiny amount of extra money will get you far more bang for your buck.

Message 18 of 22
by: jpcjpc
on: 23/08/2012 | 19:45

With giffgaff I can tether my tablet for £20 a year. How can you do that on 3?

 

(Order a sim through my phone referral link, activate with £10 gives me £5 free credit so I can buy three months worth of goodybags, and the £5 referral payback means it's only cost me £5. When the 3 months are up, repeat with a new sim)

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Message 19 of 22
by: azelphur
on: 24/08/2012 | 01:15
Also known as defrauding the referral system, lol
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