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The UK's latest mobile operator Samba won't charge punters for its wireless broadband. Instead it will ask customers to watch adverts in exchange for network access. Samba is camping on Three's network and offering almost 7MB of data for every minute of advertising viewed. That's enough for the company to claim 2.5 minutes of …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    500MB mobile broadband add on on O2 costs around £3 a month

    2.5 mins a day watching ads x 30 days = 75 mins.

    So they think 1.25 hours of my time is worth £3? How insulting.

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  2. ed2020
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    Hmmm... It seems you can open multiple browser tabs and play all your adverts simultaneously.

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  3. Encorespod
    FAIL

    X-Stream

    Remember the X-Stream network? They offered dialup internet on 0800 numbers in return for an ad banner across the top of the screen, of course everyone soon worked out you could kill the banner and the dialup continued, then they changed it... so everyone just took to hiding the banner.

    They'd do 'free weekends' where for 48hrs you could get online for nothing and quickly realised that everyone would jump onto their modems bang on midnight and stay there, so they then switched to kicking people every couple of hours.

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