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Flashing decline

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:00:00 PM

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I was in a hospital a while back and decided I wanted to order a limitless 3G internet connection. I heard Ice offered one for an acceptable price, but since I was locked to the hospital bed, I had to visit their page using Opera Mini. It looked pretty much like this:

Yes, thank you... irked

However, my current employer kindly lent me a Netcom subscription to use for free. Too bad for Ice, lucky me bigsmile

RTFMSMS phonebook is stupid

Comments

Øyvind ØstlundNoteMe Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:04:14 AM

his was all over the web while you where there. Good to see you back.

A few questions about that subscription if you don't mind. Are you talking about surfing on your phone now? Or connecting the phone to your laptop or what ever? I didn't think ICE was for phones at all?!? I have been thinking about something similar since I soon browse more pages on my phone than at home these days. But looking at Netcoms prices seems to be 20kr/Mb all over the board. What am I missing? Are you talking about EDGE or HSDPA or what?

Really interested in an answer from a user while I keep procrastinating reading up on it myself.
- ØØ -

Robert GræsdalRobbieGee Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1:59:30 AM

Yeah, I noticed! I also see a lot of people have tracked me down to this blog right The power of Reddit, I believe.

Have a look at https://netcom.no/abonnement/connect.html for detailed descriptions. I don't know how the situation is outside Norway, except Australians should come back in 15 years, if they are lucky.

The subscription covers all connection types, HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE and GPRS in decreasing maximum capacity. There is no difference on which device you are transferring data, they just count the kilobytes.

Basically, you can subscribe for NOK 99,- a month for unlimited traffic between 17:00 and 08:00 and all weekend, or you can pay NOK 499,- for unlimited all the time.

If you subscribe and connect through your phone, there is no minimum subscription time. If you want a modem, the minimum is 12 months. Using the modem is really easy to set up. When you connect the modem to your USB ports (and you need two available!), the device shows up as a removable drive and contains the drivers (beware: only for windows when I tried!). Install the drivers and you should be ready!

Øyvind ØstlundNoteMe Thursday, November 22, 2007 5:13:37 PM

Yeah, incredible what Reddit and Slashdot can do. 15min of fame I guess smile

Thanks for the info on the subscriptions. Only windows might be a small problem, but I am not surprised. Although with no minimum subscription time it sounds like it is worth a try. Windows with internet beats Linux without internet in the end I guess. And would be a much better option than GPRS with the price I currently pay.

As a side note, I stumbled over an article called "Gratis surfing i Oslo" [Norwegian] on my way home yesterday. Wondering how companies like ICE can survive with ideas like that. They have not operated that long in Oslo.

Thanks again,
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Robert GræsdalRobbieGee Thursday, November 22, 2007 7:10:57 PM

Yeah, no longer are women chasing me on the street. It's sad p

The free surfing in Oslo is basically "free surfing at specific points of interest within Oslo". I don't think ICE is afraid just yet.

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