Hi Mike, I just added a $10.00 200mb data plan to my $30.00 per month
mobile plan with Telstra - I didn't want to switch to another service.
The iphone goes for wifi whenever it possibly can - its the first
choice. So, if you are at home and it is choosing the 3g network
first, that does seem odd.
Resetting the APN each time you go out would be a pain!
cheers, Susan.
On 22/07/2009, at 3:03 PM, Craig Bruce wrote:
Same happened with my other half to be honest, I got her an unlocked
iphone and she put her voda sim in which i didnt know did not have a
data plan (i've had a data plan for years.. didnt even know they
came without them!) and she got charged somewhere in the order of
$180 for mobile data usage over a few weeks.. She's on a $10 data
plan now i believe :)
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On 22/07/2009, at 1:56 PM, Mike Murray wrote:
Hi muggers
All you iPhone-savvy people can switch off here, but for those who
are still thinking about getting an iPhone, here's some feedback on
my experience...
I'm new to smartphones, and I got my unlocked 32Gb 3GS iphone from
Apple online store on July 11, opened it up, put in the SIM card
from my 6310 Nokia, synced it through iTunes and away it went. The
phone battery was even charged, which I didn't expect.
Played around over the next few days, downloaded some apps, made
some calls, tried out the GPS, looked at websites, etc. Most of
that was through the Wifi network at home, but some through the
Telstra network and other Wifi networks that the phone found
readily. The overall experience was superb, highly recommended.
Went away for the weekend with a bunch of friends to Banksia
Springs near Dwellingup which is a mobile dead zone, and showed it
off...I think I've sold three more now. Went for a walk in the bush
and came within a weak signal range so used the GPS (which is
excellent, although slow downloading).
Yesterday I got curious (and a little nervous) about the costs I
was incurring so I went to the Telstra website, worked out how to
access my account, found the page called 'my data' which has a neat
little table showing every time the phone had accessed data. The
table listed one line item where I'd spent $23.32 and about a dozen
others between 50 cents and 2 dollars. Total, about $30. I thought,
a well I can live with that. Then I noticed it was page 1, with a
next button beside it. In fact there were 4 pages, totalling $116!!!
I searched the website and finally found that the mobile plan I was
on ($30 a month) did not have a data component so I was being
charged the GSM casual rate, which is 22c flagfall plus 2.2c/Kb.
That's $22 a Mb!!! The phone says I've dowloaded 6.2Mb and uploaded
550Kb, so there's a rough correlation.
So today I raced into Booragoon and bought a vodaphone SIM with a
200Mb data package on a 6 month contract for $30/month, ported the
number across and hopefully have stopped the bleeding. It works
fine so far, so I'll see what the experience is like over the next
little while
A key issue here is the number of times when the phone accessed the
Telstra network while I was at home close to, but obviously just
out of Wifi range. Is there a way to safeguard against
inadvertently accessing the phone network if you don't want to?
And the moral of the story? Keep an eye on your useage, know what
you're being charged and I can now understand those horrifying
stories of people racking up hundreds of dollars without realising
it. At $22/Mb it's not hard to do!
Cheers
Mike
Mike Murray and Lesley Silvester
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