Another quick question, If the MY5 $35 + $40 plans include 500 overtime minutes, couldn't they just market that as added daytime minutes to the plan?
So it'll be 250 daytime minutes + 500 overtime minutes = 750 daytime minutes for the MY5 $35 plan. (BTW I'm just throwing a number out there for the daytime minutes, not sure if the $35 plan is 250 minutes)
i currently have free caller id. could i add the bb plan for an extra 10 bucks or something?
Phones used since the start of my contract: Samsung E316, Motorola V180, SE W800c, SE K800i, Motorola Rizr, Nokia 3220 =), Samsung U600, SE W810i, Apple Iphone, Nokia E65, Nokia 3220, Blackberry 8310, SE W880i
Rogers should really re-think their greed. It's going to cost them...but then again, Canadian consumers tend to be lazy and uneducated on these retail/cost issues.
Agree with the first bit, don't know if Americans are any better about being lazy and uneducated though. Canadian consumers tend to be quite well-informed about mobile service, but the difference is they're more likely to just accept being screwed over. Considering there's really one provider in the country, there's not much choice...
Just out of curiosity (and amazement) how do the heavy BB data users on here rack up 100's of megs of BB data/month? I have the 50mb/$65 deal and it is mainly for peace of mind as a previous poster pointed out re: UL data plans. I use it for
~200 emails/day over BES
~25 emails/day ober BIS
IM+ logged into MSN when out of office
Facebook app
Google maps whenever I need it, once a week avg
Multiple short Opera 4.1 sessions / day and long sessions a few times / week (img quality low for speed)
Frequent BBM traffic (50 in / 50 out per day)
I open email attachments frequently. With all of that I am having a banner month if I can actually burn 25megs in a month. Usually it is under 25 although I pay the extra $5 to get 50 as overage protection.
Are they tracking me wrong? Is it because of BES compression and if I were BIS all the way I would be usuing way more? How do you pull down a gig in a month on a BB??
I don't have a BB, but I'm a heavy N95-3 user. Here's my breakdown:
I have the $65 flex rate PC plan.
I rack up about 200MB/month in total data use. This includes checking email about 20x per day (IMAP4 server), some minor image-enabled browsing and a fair bit of picture/video uploading via tethered use on my laptop for work.
$65 is a ripoff, but I can live with it since it's a writeoff. If they want $100/month for 1GB, I'll be cancelling data all together. I'd rather just find a wifi or file my stuff from an ethernet connection wherever I can find one.
People racking up gigs and gigs are probably YouTube freeks. Get a cable modem and stop saturating the network
On Windows Mobile and Symbian there is Slingplayer. Some people may stream other media such as music or go on Youtube. To get over 100 mb, its mostly media.
On Windows Mobile and Symbian there is Slingplayer. Some people may stream other media such as music or go on Youtube. To get over 100 mb, its mostly media.
not really. if you use a browser like pie or opera mobile, some webpages are 1MB just to load. If you browse 3 of those webpages per day thats your 100MB a month. i once loaded a myspace page,and it was over 8megs with no video or audio on the page,just from the pictures.
Another quick question, If the MY5 $35 + $40 plans include 500 overtime minutes, couldn't they just market that as added daytime minutes to the plan?
So it'll be 250 daytime minutes + 500 overtime minutes = 750 daytime minutes for the MY5 $35 plan. (BTW I'm just throwing a number out there for the daytime minutes, not sure if the $35 plan is 250 minutes)
for this i dont think its 750 daytime minutes.... i think the 500 overtime minutes works like it does for the student plans... you have a bucket of 500 min so if the monthly is 250 and you use 300 then you don't get charged you have 450 left in your bucket...the bucket lasts the length of the contract? (slash i dont know how long the bucket lasts)
Dude I have a serious feeling you're going to make a LOT of money because you have a stable US address if TMobile doesn't prevent you to go back to the US borders while roaming endlessly in Canada.
We'll see how those rates in the infamous data thread fair when the Auction is all said and done this May ... and the winners of the largest spectrum are NOT any Canadian provider and IF foreigners have discrete intention to get their OWN network setup!
My dad lives in the US so my address used is his addres...they ran the credit check on my Canadian info. My girlfriend lives in Michigan. I am there every week, 45-50 hours / week with usage there. My data / voice usage is high enough they will never say anything...I've used gigs / month here since August and haven't heard anything from them.
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