Can you use streaming services (ie Orb) on the new Data Bolt ons?

[theuniboy]

Yes I know the T&Cs forbid it but does it actually work? Or have they blocked it? And the same for Messenger Apps?

I am a student and cannot afford to waste money finding out that it doesn't work.

Quite why they have created T&Cs which so roundly prohibit all the exciting and new things you can do with the internet I do not know! Its so annoying when the others are embracing what the web has become. I shall be moving when my contract is up I fear.

[old bill]

With T-Mobiles W&W you should not use it for streaming but I know for a fact that you can. With the Orange data tarrif I have ,I should not use it for streaming but it works fine. The only way to find out for sure is try it. If you are looking at starting a new contract (or I think with O2 you get the same time with a upgrade) you get 14 days to try the phone. If does not do what you want return it. The only thing you will have paid for is the few days that the phone has been active.

[pctech]

If you want to use all of the decent stuff the web has to offer like messenger and streaming video, stick to a PC for a good few years yet uniboy as no matter what the ads say, mobile networks are still in the 56k era, and they don't like you using stuff they cant charge for.
Until net access from mobiles becomes a truly competitive area (which I reckon will happen when HSPA takes off) they will wring as much cash out of subscribers as they can as they did in the early days of GSM.

Bear in mind though that for technical reasons, the operator of any kind of network has to impose a usage cap as if everyone did exactly as they liked, networks would simply grind to a halt, the core infrastructure of the net is already starting to creak under the strain.

The way to force them to reduce prices and increase usage limits is for everyone not to use data services and watch the marketing departments go into overdrive, sadly however that is unlikely to happen as we are happy to be ripped off in the UK.

Anyway if you are at uni, you have access to JANET which is an extremely fast network so why get ripped off for the privilege of doing stuff on your phone that you can do on your PC.

[sillybilly]

To my knowledge although it's in their T's & C's, at the moment they tend not to notice/ care unless you are quite a frequent/ high user.