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2009-10-17 , 23:25
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#109
Originally Posted by dwould View Post
'erm, there is a 500MB fair usage policy'
'what happens after that'
he consulted with someone else
'after 500mb it's £2.50 per MB, but it's fine because ona mobile it's all compressed so you won't use that much data'
This is not what I've been told by the Vodafone 'eForum' folks, who are usually a lot more reliable than the shop drones when it comes to details of data plans. In short, according to them it's 500Mb FUP, but they'll send warnings as you get close, and you won't get charged unless you go over by a lot, or as a matter of routine. In other words, 500Mb is a guideline, but don't take the mickey.

'yes I will, I'd be putting it in an N900'
'what and using it as a modem?'
'No, the n900 is closer to a mobile computer than a phone, i'll blow througha few hundred MB in podcasts alone.
don't you have any other plans with larger data deals?'
'no'
And that's just plain wrong. Vodafone also do deals at 3Gb for £15 and 5Gb for £25 (on top of a voice contract) that they call 'Mobile Broadband via the Phone' - the idea is that they're similar deals as on the broadband dongles, but for people that want to use the phone as a modem, but really, they're just higher usage limits. I've asked my local shop people about them and they simply told me that they didn't deal with those, didn't know anything about them, and I'd have to go to the website people.