David in Spain

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Chopping trees with my axe

Yes it is one of those days when I have to spend time in the garden. Still mare more trees to chop up after the snow storm that felled them a month or so back. The Electric chainsaw broke and is not fixable, the motor saw is still being fixed under guarantee in Girona. So that has cut back on what I could get done. Still did a bit of sweating though.

I am on the search for a decent and cheap mobile phone provider. Yoigo seems to be winning that war at the moment and I am so pissed off with Telefonica that I will get away from them as soon as possible. They annoyed me even more the other day with refusing to un lock my iPhone. They as so bad with the way they treat their customers. Any other company will be better. I might go with Orange if it works out that my wife can get a better deal and so we will be both on the same network. But their tariffs are very difficult to understand, I think they nearly all make them as confusing as possible.

I still think that the prices in Spain show contempt for the people here and it is a rip off.

Rip Off Spain

It is high time that the Spanish people and the rest of us that live in Spain get together and complain about the prices of some things here. In particular I am thinking about the high cost of internet and mobile phone tariffs. Have to get totally jealous of the services and the prices that the people in the UK are getting. I have seen where they are paying only ten pounds or maybe 12 pounds to get 20MB download speeds.

Here in Spain the stupid thing is that the slower the internet speed the more you pay….. No honestly it is true. Here I can only get 1mb and it is more expensive than the price that I could get 6MB for if I was living in an area that had that speed available.

I don’t know what it is that make the Spanish not complain about the high cost of the internet because they are not shy with complaining about other things. I have seen that when I have been working in the camping site

Orange MiFi

Today I am looking at the prices of the mobile phone plans, and they all seem to make it as complicated as possible. Most have this thing where you pay a certain amount per month and get x number of calls or x number of minutes. Then there is the different prices per minute of the calls depending on where you are calling. What is confusing me most is whether I will be able to get my iPhone unlocked so I can use it on another network. I really don’t like Telefonica and I would have stayed with Vodafone except for the fact that the iPhone was only possible with Movistar/Telfonica

Does anyone out there have any experience of getting a phone unlocked at the end of a contract. It would be great to be able to continue using it and preferably without a contract. That way I will be able to think about the possibility of the next version of the iPhone which may be available in June or July this year.

For me another consideration would be the idea of just having a cheap old phone because I don’t make many phone calls and then get an iPad. That would be nice. I would get the iPad without the 3G and then get a MiFi device that will give me a wifi bubble wherever I am. The deal that Orange have with one of those now is €19 per month an with a 1GB limit per month. That is much better than the €15 per month with Telfonica that only gives 200mb per month. How bad is that then?