Broadband anyone?
Last weekend I set off with my friend Anny (monsteranny) to MBK to check out Hutch wireless broadband. I was pretty well-prepared since I had already checked out the details available at the Hutch web site (http://www.hutch.co.th). So in short, I signed the contract.
Hutch changes promotions about as often as a baby?s diapers but when I signed up (one year contract, month-to-month thereafter) the cost of unlimited broadband was 890 baht/month BUT for real unlimited, you must also sign up for the 299 baht call plan which is okay because I?ll call some of my friends from my Hutch phone. Under this plan the first minute is 3 baht, then 25 satang per minute thereafter. And a bonus ? using 1-2-Call I can almost never reach my friends who use Orange during evenings. But if I call them on Hutch, no problem!
I did NOT buy the needed mobile handset from Hutch (Sanyo SCP-588 or SCP-550) which would have cost 5,900/6,900 baht respectively. Instead, I bought the mobile handset secondhand (easy to find), and here?s what you need and how it breaks down:
Sanyo SCP-550 (secondhand) 2,200
Desktop holder (charger) 200
USB cable 400
TOTAL 2,800
In short, I am basically paying 80 baht per month more for broadband than I was for dialup, and needed to invest 2,800 as a one-time cost for the hardware.
Is it worth it? To be fair, browsing web pages isn?t that much different than dialup. For example, if you?re browsing journal entries in TF, you won?t notice a lot of difference. But suppose you open a journal with photos. Wow! The pics load faster than you can look at them! So yes, in my opinion it?s worth it, and I think Hutch gives you a very simple alternative for fast internet access.
Thanks to May (filurina) for suggesting it!
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