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Does using IM+ add to your data usage ?
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Posted by: thahookup

I gotta question for u guys. Does using your IM+ add extra data to your data plan. Like if your not sending someone pictures over it, just talking to someone, does it count towards your data cap ?

Posted by: hopetindall

yes it counts towards your data usage

I dont know what you mean 'add extra data to your data plan'?

Posted by: thahookup

neither do i...sorry..hehe

but roughly...can you eyeball for me...how many MB in like 10 sent and recieved msg's ?

Posted by: Mr Pink57

To give an idea if you did not use IM+ all day and it sat idle it would use around 1 to 2 mb's easily. Chat programs are massive data hogs even when idle so keep that in mind.

pink

Posted by: Synncere

I found QuickIM to be somewhat data friendly well at least for me compared to a few other IM clients I have used in the past.

Posted by: hopetindall

Do you have a sense of how friendly? How fast does it burn data?

Posted by: Synncere

I don't know exactly how much but my bills sky rocketed when I started using verichat and a couple other IM clients but using the same amount of emailing, web browsing and QuickIM my overages are considerably smaller now than before. IM clients do eat alot of data but w/ Rogers having a 25Mb cap on their so called unltd data plan... I definately prefer having my overages as low as possible.

Posted by: Timsta

thats true. but u can kind of hope for something like a tmobile plan.. 30 bucks unlimited or something? i was watchin tv the other day.. they had commerciali. 9.99 for unlimited sms.. argh.. i want that.

Posted by: Synncere

It's too bad in Canada data rates aren't cheaper especially w/ Rogers. I wish the 25Mb cap was lifted and that we had an unlimited sms plan but that's another story.

Posted by: Timsta

well. i went to a couple of hockey games locally where i am, from invites from the westcoast vp of rogers and such. they were mentioning they realize their data rates were high but not much they could do due the fact, we don't have enough ppl like the states. but.. pressure from bell and telus for lower rate plans are getting their attention as alot of ppl are jumping over to bell and telus. ... bring back the $40 unlimited data that was on fido.

Posted by: GregGebhardt

I never understood why Rogers calls it an unlimited plan and it caps at 25mb. Everyone here need to email Rogers and or join the petition to help our Canadian users out and get Rogers to stop this cr^p!

Posted by: blackberrycat

Rogers does what it does because it knows it can get away with it. No mystery here! lol... As consumers we need to do same by punishing Ted and the shareholders sending the msg their marketing strategy will fail. Alas! let's all switch to Bell.

Posted by: Synncere

Rogers now shows it as 25MB on their website. It doesn't say unlimited anymore.