Thread: Apple vs Nokia
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2007-11-01 , 12:23
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
So if you normally use your cell phone for voice calls only and have a "normal" contract for this, and then after 2 years for the first time you decide to use your phones built-in browser to get online because you need to check for the next train home... You cant do this because you would have to add a "data plan" to your package before?
No, you can do it - but you will normally be charged per MB unless you have signed up for a data plan. For example, I don't currently have a "data plan" for my mobile phone but for the last month (October) I've been having to check email on my N800 while away from home and I received my bill yesterday - £60 for data calls, ouch!

My service provider - O2 - has a £7.50/month data plan which provides 200MB/month data usage, but I can't add it to my current voice plan - that's just dumb, and it's also not a very good data plan (I can get 1GB for £5 elsewhere!) but it's still cheaper than £60! Right now I'm waiting for the N95 8GB to appear on either T-Mobile or 3 in the UK and then I'm switching as these two networks have competitive data plans... or I might switch sooner and buy the phone SIM free.

To sum up - unless you have a data plan in place you'll get slammed when you use your voice plan for data calls.