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Phone Data

Grays_1890

Grays_1890

Les Howe
Hi All,

Just a quick one, I have a work phone that was blackberry which was transferred to Nokia and I have had a message on the first day about data costs in last 24 hours being over £300. I have not used the phone in any different way so is there a difference in how the phones download and process data which would make it more punchy?
 
I'd be surprised if this was still the case, but back in the day the carriers would charge a basic line rental for a number and you'd have to add a business data plan to that, there was a different between smartphone and blackberry though, you needed the different bolt on for the device being used.

I guess it's possible that the account has the blackberry plan applied but if the sim is in a different device they are charging top whack for "non blackberry" data.
 
Strange, so data to blackberry would have been seen different to one for a smart phone then and therefore charged differently?
 
Thinking about it I’m sure that back in the day data between a blackberry phone and the server was free (email and instant messaging) but anything out side of that was charged at quite a high rate
 
Grays_1890 said:
Strange, so data to blackberry would have been seen different to one for a smart phone then and therefore charged differently?
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yeah

I had someone smash their iPhone, gave them a BB and they didn't get data until I swapped the bolt on with o2
 
I got a text saying I spent £340 on data which when I checked was for about 450mbs.

Does this mean we were on a turd of a tariff?
 
That's about right - 70P a MB is what a lot of networks charge or thereabouts if you do over your data plan. Don't you connect to Wi-Fi when possible, that's a lot of data to use just browsing out and about.
 
P.D. said:
That's about right - 70P a MB is what a lot of networks charge or thereabouts if you do over your data plan. Don't you connect to Wi-Fi when possible, that's a lot of data to use just browsing out and about.
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Or a lot of porn being downloaded
 
Kandi1977 said:
Almost 1£ per Mb??? :eek: What insane world do you guys live in?? I pay about £35 for 10Gb.
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So does everyone but if you go over your contract and don't buy the additional bundles they try and sell you that's roughtly what they charge.
 
Quick one for any phone or tech heads. I had to hand phone back to work as I am leaving, got an old Blackberry again to tie me over but says there is no Blackberry internet service which is stopping me browsing. Any solutions?
 
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