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Interesting artice as I'm a big audio book listener. I may give it a go just out of curiosity but I'll proabably stick with Audible books and AudibleAir for listening on my phone as it gives me direct access to all previous purchases at a choice of file size/quality. It is nice to see someone else venturing into the mobile audiobook market but I'll save my judgment until after I've tried it.

I see your point. I know a few mobile power user and average users, of those averave users the ones that would consider paying for email too expensive are the ones that would also find setting up an email account on a phone too difficult or would have no need for it so wouldn't use it if even if it was free. I can only speak from experience of the people I know. I did set email up on a friends phone once and as they were already paying for data it wouldn't have cost them anything but they never used it because they couldnt find a need for it.

A free add funded service is fine if it's replacing something thats expensive (for Ewan this seems to be the case) but as I currently pay £5 per month for "unlimited" mobile data and within this I also have exchange email pushed to my phone, receiving adds would be a huge price to pay to save a few quid each month.

If you can get a decent amount of calls and texts on a different network I'd do that and leave Voda. I left orange after 8 years because they couldn't sort me out with a text package big enough to fit my needs, then I gave them another chance 12 months later only to be screwed for a £25 phonecall that should have been free. Reward the networks with your business that have good service and plans, ditch those that don't. I've been with 3 the last 3.5 years and this would have never happened with them, even with their x-series 1gig fair use policy you can go upto 2gig on occasion without being charged extra.