Amen brother

Conor O’Neill wrote a post before Christmas that I’ve been meaning to write for about six months. I have a Nokia N70 with Vodafone, and cannot get the package that I want: high-bandwidth internet access for both the handset and as a bluetooth modem to my laptop, with a decent download limit (~3-5 GB/month).

The technology is all there, but the telcos can’t seem to get their act together. Vodafone, and most of the others, I’m sure, still act like CompuServe circa 1990. The sooner that they realise that their business is in providing fat pipes at a reasonable price, and let us build & deploy our own applications (VoIP anyone?) at the edges, the better.

Three’s packages seem to be the closest to what I want, but any time I’ve called them and tried to confirm that I could use the handset as a laptop modem, I’ve been greeted with a big fat “Huh? – that’s not possible”. Maybe, with their new internet packages, it might be worth giving them another call.

Or maybe just wait for a 3G iPhone to become available.

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