I don't really understand how this £1.50 per megabyte thing works for using mobile internet abroad.

Please can someone explain it to me in terms of if I am flitting about the web how many pages would 1 megabyte allow?

Confused!!! x

A typical webpage (if you can have such a thing) could be about 50kb. This wouldn't include a page with lots of picture, more something like the Sheffield Forum home page including the banner adds. There are approximately 1000kb in megabyte so that would be 20 pages the size of SF homepage.

that's exactly the sort of information I needed thanks!

Does it make any difference to the page size if I have pictures turned off on my mobile internet?

that's exactly the sort of information I needed thanks!

Does it make any difference to the page size if I have pictures turned off on my mobile internet?

If that stops it downloading the pictures at all is should reduce the size of each page. It should be more like 20kb per page.

50k? Maybe 5 years ago. Take the example of the sheffield Forum home page - it's actually 150k, not 50k. I just checked the document size of the 6 pages I currently have open in tabs in Firefox, and only a Google search result page was under 50k, all the others range from 150k to 500k.

£1.50 may only get you 5 or 6 pages, it depends whether the sites in question present a special low bandwidth mobile version. It also depends on whether your browser is caching images and scripts.