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Technology Stocks : Nokia (NOK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (16701)	11/20/2001 6:27:32 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Problems with the 8310....from Bizkiffer on the TMF board. boards.fool.com Below is the german message from D2-Vodafone in germany. Taken from handykult.de. You can try babelfish.altavista.com for a translation. In short, whenever you activate GPRS with the Nokia 8310 it activates the feature PDP-Context (whatever that exactly is). What this means is that the Nokia phone goes online over GPRS and gets an IP address. The big problem is that with the default system D2-Vodafone charges about 2 euro cents per hour for GPRS access. The rest of the costs are bandwidth based. But you get that default charge. With my provider, T-Mobile, I would get charged 0.24 euro cents per day. You can get around that charge by going with pro GPRS accounts which do not do these daily/hourly/whatever charges. All in all. If you have an 8310 for 1 month and have GPRS enabled you will have a charge of 2 cents x 24 hours x 30 days = 1440 cents = 14.40 EUR on your account, no matter what you did. Not too much but very annoying. Is that the fault of the service provider or of Nokia? Probably a bit of both. The bad thing is that you have to bring in your phone to a Nokia service center and Vodafone has pulled all 8310 from their product line until the error is taken care of by Nokia.