Comments on: MoBro – Mobile Broadband

By: kanabona

kanabona — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:58:24 +0000

each connection is proxied and a real IP is not given
instead the host issues a local 10.x.x.x IP
and dialog’s proxy is blocking dig lookups
it also strips whitespace in html and xhtml content in http responses
so it’s not the same as having an adsl connection from SLT

By: Gini Appu

Gini Appu — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:08:12 +0000

Since Kalu had already digressed from the MoBro discussion, Appu would like to unkindly rub a bit of salt in the wound by pointing to this offer in Oz of $69 (Rs 7000) for 150GB of ADSL 2+ (10 to 20 mbps download and about 1 mbps upload) and excess usage beyond the 150GB is shaped (no cost but speeds drop to about 128 kbps) >> http://www.tpg.com.au/

chuckle, chuckle… Appa wanna quite Rajapakseville and move Down Under!

By: Gini Appu

Gini Appu — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:59:40 +0000

“MoBro” ???

Friggin brilliant!
Appu thinks Indi should be in branding, if he isn’t already…

By: Gini Appu

Gini Appu — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:54:45 +0000

If you want value for money, the Hutch/Three Networks offer (in OZ) of 6GB for $39 or Rs. 4000 is pretty decent >> http://www.three.com.au/threestore/mobilebroadband.xhtml

The killer app, however, is VOIP on your HSDPA mobile phone.

Some ph0nes, like the Nokia 6120, ship with SKYPE pre-installed and mobile providers are offering a data product as an upsell option. Uppity providers like Three have whipped off the blinders and refuse to see VOIP as an assault on their cash cow (regular voice service revenue). Instead, they offer bolt-on plans for mobile data that allow you to use SKYPE, email, web, and new innovative products like ORB (a network tunneling feature that lets you access your home PC froom your mobile phone) that work great if you are at work and you want to fetch a file off your home PC.

For over ten years, Appu has pooh pooh’d the idea of convergence and insisted that voice will be the killer app. For once, Appu is glad to be proven wrong…

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:58:51 +0000

This is a bit of a sore topic for me.

The 3G iPhone was released in New Zealand last week and everyone was expecting appropriate MoBro data plans from Vodafone NZ. They decided to go for “customer rape” instead.

Rs. 1/2 for an MB? That price range would give the MoBro community in NZ a giant collective orgasm. The cheapest data plan here (and you have to sign up for 24 months) is Rs. 4150 for 1GB a month. That works out to over Rs. 4 per MB. Exceed your 1GB data cap and you have to pay Rs. 42 per MB!

If you don’t sign up for a 24 month plan, casual data rates start at Rs. 930 per MB! Yes… that is NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY per MB!

You guys have it good in SL :(

By: Kalusudda

Kalusudda — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:29:41 +0000

I pay $60 a month for unlimited mobile access from AT&T. It is after combining home DSL and cellular phone service. I get about 1.2MB down/500KB upload. But when we are in Japan(about a month a year) at my GF’s place, we get 3.9MB downloads from Japanese network. I can’t remember the upload speed. But at her house 100MB fiber is $60 a month. May be I can move there and start a hosting service for SL.

By: Chaar~Max

Chaar~Max — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:31:47 +0000

The prob with MoBro as u call it is the bandwidth. The operators over here don’t aren’t capable of giving you unlimited bandwidth. Even after busting 15 grand they still insisting on applying a cap. WTF? And I have issues with this fair use policy.