Don’t subscribe to the cloud in London
April 13th, 2008 by xavier
I used to rely on GPRS with my O2 pay and go card on my iPhone. It’s
£7.5 a month for unlimited data but the speed is not that great. Just
enough for basic uses like twitter, google reader and alike. Even
Google Maps is usable but nothing outstanding.
Well, for April I wanted to try the service of The Cloud. £6.99 for
one month of unlimited data if you appear to be lucky enough to catch
one of their hotspot.
I work in the city. Probably one of the highest concentration of
potential customer for them. Here there are more blackberries than
trees.
Most of the time though my iPhone can’t connect to the hotspot. When
it does it eventually won’t get a proper ip address from their dhcp
server.
Let’s say that at the end of the week I could manage to check my
emails once.
Today I’m in Waterloo station. Good signal here and I can connect. But
oh surprise it is now asking me or my username and password.
I enter it and it keeps on saying my credentials are incorrect (I’ve
double checked with the confirmation email I received whe subscribing
to the service on the 27th of March 2008).
All in all, it is definitely not worth it. For £3 pounds more you
should better go for a USB dongle on 3G (btw can’t wait for a 3G
iPhone).
Or if you still need to rely on wifi hotspots I would suggest you to
have a loot at open bt.
T mobile looks to be great only if you happen to spend a lot of time
in starbucks coffees 
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