Note: All information on this page was correct as of 27th July 2007!
The information on this page has been collected to help you understand how much it costs to use the internet from your mobile phone.
The charging rules to browse the internet from your phone will be specific to your operator and your individual calling plan - we have collected the details for each of the top 5 UK operators and provide links to their websites for more information.
If you want to be certain of the charges for your circumstances we would suggest calling your operator on 150.
General Expectations of costs
The costs of accessing the internet from a mobile have been quite expensive - but by June 2007 4 of the 5 biggest operators in the UK had introduced unlimited tariffs to access the internet.
These 4 operators (Orange, 3, Vodafone and T-Mobile) now provide unlimited internet access at a maximum cost of £1 for the entire day. All 4 companies also allow you to subscribe to unlimited monthly internet access - this costs between £4 and £7.50.
The survey we have done of the top 5 UK operators shows that if you do not have an unlimited tariff, the maximum cost you will pay to install uHavePassed is £1. The average cost for installation is 39p and the average cost per synchronisation is 10p.
If you are an Orange pay-as-you-go customer you must pay £1 per day to use the internet no matter how much you use it - there is no monthly access from Orange for pay-as-you-go customers. Think carefully about how you will use the software if you are an Orange pay-as-you-go customer.
Below are specific details for each operator - you can jump to the section for each operator by clicking on the following list:
How many days will I use internet with uHavePassed?
You can use uHavePassed whenever you want. Each time you correctly answer 100 questions you will need to synchronise with the website to upload those questions and download some new questions. It all depends on how often you are using uHavePassed and how many questions you get correct.
We would recommend to upgrade to unlimited monthly internet access while you are using uHavePassed and get all extra benefits of anywhere any time internet access, news, email, msn, myspace, beebo, facebook etc. This can be done for between £4 and £7.50 for both contract and pay-as-you-go customers with Orange, 3, Vodafone and T-Mobile in the UK.
How much data does uHavePassed use?
For those of you to whom Kb and Mb mean something - here are the numbers with regard to uHavePassed usage.
Installation of uhavePassed on your mobile phone will use about 100Kb of data. Each time you synchronise uHavePassed will use between 1Kb and 55Kb depending on how many new questions or game content must be downloaded.
Information specific to Orange
Pay-as-you-go customers:
Internet access is £1 per day for unlimited access
Contract customers:
Without unlimited Orange World access you will pay £3 per Mb. This means that you can install uHavePassed and do all 1000+ questions and synchronise 20 times for an entire month for only £3.
Orange World 4Mb bundle costs £4 per month for 4Mb - this would more than cover using uHavePassed on your mobile phone.
Orange World unlimited costs £5 per month and gives you unlimited evening and weekend internet access. If you use the internet during the day charges are a maximum of £1.50 per day.
For more information on Orange visit http://www.orange.co.uk
Information specific to T-Mobile
Pay-as-you-go customers:
Internet access is a maximum £1 per day for unlimited access but is charged at 0.73 pence per Kb - so installation of uHavePassed will cost approximately 73p. Each time you synchronise uHavePassed will cost between 1p and 40p. There is however a maximum cost of £1 per day - once you have paid more than £1 you can do as much as you want and it will cost you no more.
Contract customers:
There are two options - pay per day (which is identical to pay-as-you go) or pay monthly.
If you choose to pay monthly with T-Mobile you pay £7.50 and can access the internet whenever you want and as much as you want - there is a 1Gb (1000Mb) per month limit.
For more information on T-Mobile visit http://www.t-mobile.co.uk
We collected our data from : http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/mobile-internet/on-your-phone/
Information specific to 3
Pay-as-you-go customers:
Internet access is charged at 50p for the first hour and then £1 for the rest of the day. There is a maximum of 4Mb per day but this is more than enough for using uHavePassed. Installation of uHavePassed using 3 would cost you 50p.
Contract customers:
There are two options: pay per Mb or pay monthly.
If you pay per Mb you pay £2 per Mb - so installation of uhavePassed will cost 20p and each synchronisation between 1p and 12p.
If you choose to pay monthly with 3, you sign up for X-Series and pay £5 and can access the internet whenever you want and as much as you want.
For more information on 3 visit http://www.three.co.uk
We collected our data from :http://www.three.co.uk/personal/help_support_/useful_information_/important_docs.omp (3 Price Guide)
Information specific to Vodafone
Pay-as-you-go customers:
Internet access is charged at 0.2p per Kb but there is a maximum charge of £1 per day (up to 15Mb).
This means it would cost 20p to install uHavePassed and between 1p and 12p each time you synchronise, but once you pass £1 that is the maximum cost for the day.
Contract customers:
There are two options: pay per day (which is identical to pay-as-you go) or pay monthly.
If you choose to pay monthly with Vodafone you pay £7.50 and can access the internet whenever you want and as much as you want with a 120Mb per month limit.
For more information on Vodafone visit http://online.vodafone.co.uk
We collected our data from : http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=template03&pageID=MI_0004
Information specific to o2
If you are an O2 customer you get 1Mb of free internet access per month. This allows you to install uhavePassed and synchronise about 20 times for no extra cost (each month). After this you pay 0.15p per Kb which means that it would cost between 0.15p and 9p per synchronisation. For more information on Vodafone visit http://www.o2.co.uk