[3GScottishUser]

From 31st March the 3 Mobile TV package (4 X 1 hour looped channels, Details below) will increase in price from £5 a month to £10 a month.

From 3's UK Website Price Guide:

Add TV Channels

Get access to selected TV channels - Vidzone, MTV shows, Paramount comedy, and Nickelodeon for £5 a month promotional offer until 31st March 2006. Thereafter, it will be £10 a month. Handset dependent.

http://www.three.co.uk/BlobServer.srv?blobdir=ImportantDoc&blobfile=Feb06+price+guide+vII.pdf

[Ben]

This is separate to their MobiTV offering, I take it?

I wonder if they'll be bostering their offering... I mean, £10 on Vodafone buys access to over 20 channels.

[3GScottishUser]

The above is what they offer in their own Mobile TV package. They also offer clips of ITV programmes and you can get Playboy TV for the bargain price of £5 for 15 minutes (£20 an hour) although perhaps for those into soft porn erotica 15 minutes is all that's needed!!!

Not exactly market leading content offers from what has recently been renamed a 'mobile media company'.

[getti]

They stll have the best value for contract customers and are the only network to pay customers for recieving calls.

Yes the WePay costs have gone up but no other network pays customers to take calls and their basic pricing is the same as other networks now. They cant exactly offer to pay customers and still offer unbeatable value.

Mobile TV is no big thing i think, at least as it is now. I have had a 903 for about 2 weeks now and watching Vodafone TV was not exactly an enjoyment most of the time.

The screens are too small, the sound was very quiet on all phones i have used so far and it breaks up most of the time. The same can be said for 3 and Orange.

Mobile TV will take off when it done like O2 have been testing

[3GScottishUser]

They stll have the best value for contract customers and are the only network to pay customers for recieving calls.

Yes the WePay costs have gone up but no other network pays customers to take calls and their basic pricing is the same as other networks now. They cant exactly offer to pay customers and still offer unbeatable value.

Not quite..... 02 offer 1000 X/Net minutes and 150 texts or 750 X/Net Mins and 750 texts with a free Samsung Z320i (i-mode) with BT Headset and free e-mail and picture messaging until June 2006 plus videocalls are charged as voice!!! 3 have nothing in that ball park!! T-Mobile Flext tariffs now offer more minutes and texts than 3.

On pre-pay £10 buys 150 inclusive X/Net mins on 02 = 6.6p/min - far cheaper than the 30p/min on WePay and you only get credit to the value of your top-up amount. Vodafone's Stop the Clock and Smartplus will also beat WePay for most users. Dont forget Tesco Value too at 15p/min for X/net and if you spend an average £40 on pre-pay monthly T-Mobile charge just 5p/min X/Net.

It could well have been the case that 3 used to offer more than others but that is a very dangerous assumption now.

Things have moved on! (Orange will revamp their tariffs in March 2006)

[Ben]

Mobile TV is no big thing i think, at least as it is now. I have had a 903 for about 2 weeks now and watching Vodafone TV was not exactly an enjoyment most of the time.

The screens are too small, the sound was very quiet on all phones i have used so far and it breaks up most of the time. The same can be said for 3 and Orange.

Mobile TV will take off when it done like O2 have been testing
See I think Mobile TV is a big thing. I think it has been a big hit for Vodafone, and I'd imagine it's easily their most used 3G feature now.

I can sit for a good hour comfortably watching channels like HBO Mobile on both my W900i and 6680 - the sound quality is further improved if you use headphones, particularly on the W900i for obvious reasons (I swear, it's ear buds are better quality than the Sony equiv costing £35).

Sure, DVB-H will make Mobile TV more mainstream, but meanwhile if operators want to get users hooked and create a long term market then they need to keep their prices reasonable. £10 for less than a dozen channels is pretty poor in my book, and I still don't understand why Three are operating two different Mobile TV delivery systems in parallel.

I still believe Three are pretty good value at the end of the day though. However, Flext from T-Mobile is a seriously good offering, for voice and text it'll be king. Just as well Three is a media company now ;)