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Old 15 May 2010, 05:12 PM
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Default Mobile phones and internet usage, how do you know ?

Ive just changed my mobile phone plan to include unlimited internet usage, Vodafone said it has a limit of i think 512mb per day.

What i want to know is the following.

1. How do you know how much data you are using when your connected to the internet ? As an example, lets say i was listening to some sports commentary on my phone via an internet website for an 80 mins game, roughly how much date would that count as ?

2. Is 512mb per day enough ? It says unlimited internet access but they say your limit is 512mb per day.

Obviously you don`t want to be downloading music files straight to your phone and stuff like that, any info you can give us on internet usage would be appreciated. As i said above, i`m with Vodafone.

Its just i`m not familiar with this as ive never really used the internet much via my mobile but i plan to use it a lot more from now on.
Old 15 May 2010, 05:31 PM
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Depends what station you listen to and the kbps, bbc radio is 64kbs so an hour is around 22.5 mb but a lot of stations are 128 kbs so 80 minutes of that and you are looking at around 60mb.
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To give an idea and although i'm on 02, recieved data on my iphone since bought 3 months ago is 319mb and i'm on the internet all the time.

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Just to say 512 mb is 8+ albums of music.
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Originally Posted by kingofturds
Depends what station you listen to and the kbps, bbc radio is 64kbs so an hour is around 22.5 mb but a lot of stations are 128 kbs so 80 minutes of that and you are looking at around 60mb.
The one i was listening to yesterday was 320kbs
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I doubt it will be 512mb a day as that is something like 20gig a month and they aren't gonna let you have that? Unless your on youtube all the time or use your phone as a modem I doubt you will use 512mb a month never mind a day.
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I'm nervously waiting a bill from O2. Took phone to USA. Checked usage and it says 153MB sent and 1GB received.
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Originally Posted by jods
I'm nervously waiting a bill from O2. Took phone to USA. Checked usage and it says 153MB sent and 1GB received.
That was one very posh **** !
Old 15 May 2010, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by jods
I'm nervously waiting a bill from O2. Took phone to USA. Checked usage and it says 153MB sent and 1GB received.
that bill is gonna be huge
Old 15 May 2010, 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by jods
I'm nervously waiting a bill from O2. Took phone to USA. Checked usage and it says 153MB sent and 1GB received.
I can only guess that you are joking?

1153mb would cost you about £7000
Old 15 May 2010, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by jods
I'm nervously waiting a bill from O2. Took phone to USA. Checked usage and it says 153MB sent and 1GB received.

I hope that was over wifi??? its £6 per mb outside of Europe so do the math

Unless you switched the data roaming on it must of all been done thru wifi???

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the voda tarriff is 500mb per month
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Originally Posted by bigsinky
the voda tarriff is 500mb per month
If that was on O2 though it would not be part of your unlimited data as it is within the UK only (unless you have international roaming add ons).

As said above, the out of bundle/bolt on charges for data in the USA are £6 per MB, and is £7000 for jods usage.
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Originally Posted by bigsinky
the voda tarriff is 500mb per month
The indian chap i was speaking too must have got his lines fluffed, i asked him what does unlimited internet usage mean. He said its unlimited but they have a fair usage policy which means its restricted to 512mb but you probably wouldn`t be charged if you went over that.

With being fairly new to this i asked him is that 512mb a day, he said yes. lol
Old 15 May 2010, 08:27 PM
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500MB a day is 15GB a month. some adsl home broadbands dont even get that much usage. thats a helluva a lot of mobile porno
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Originally Posted by jods
I'm nervously waiting a bill from O2. Took phone to USA. Checked usage and it says 153MB sent and 1GB received.
All together now. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkkkk !

Old 15 May 2010, 10:46 PM
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I have my fingers crossed for you lol.

As for measuring usage, I have data monitors on both phones to register network, wifi and roaming
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So... Vodafone iPhone deal;

75 mins, 250 texts, 1GB + wi-fi - 24 month, £25
(love that... free wi-fi...FFS!)

Anyways... 1 Gig download per month, and then the website states;

Browsing the Mobile internet and data usage.... 50p per day
http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/pric...37&serverName=

So like the OP. What's up? After 1gig does it stop the browsing, or does it charge without letting me know?
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Originally Posted by JPL

So like the OP. What's up? After 1gig does it stop the browsing, or does it charge without letting me know?

It will keep charging you till you can't pay the bill. Your never gonna use 1gig a month with a mobile phone browsing the web. I reckon reading the paper everyday at work on my phone plus all my emails and general browsing of the web will probs use 200mb a month. To go over this you haver to download stuff, use your phone as a modem or browse data intensive sites such as youtube etc. I'm with t mobile and it has a fair useage of 3gig and I doubt I could ever come close to that on a mobile phone, as for my home network I can do 100gig in a day
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Originally Posted by stevebt
It will keep charging you till you can't pay the bill. Your never gonna use 1gig a month with a mobile phone browsing the web. I reckon reading the paper everyday at work on my phone plus all my emails and general browsing of the web will probs use 200mb a month. To go over this you haver to download stuff, use your phone as a modem or browse data intensive sites such as youtube etc. I'm with t mobile and it has a fair useage of 3gig and I doubt I could ever come close to that on a mobile phone, as for my home network I can do 100gig in a day
I use mine the same as you, sky sports every morning and sky news plus scoobynet and my emails and various other things, and as i said above my phone says i've received 319MB of data in the 3 months i've had the phone.

Aaron
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At that gigerage of download, prepare to be ermmmmm


shafted

these should give you a taster of what you could receive

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/18/s...s-30-000-bill/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22262994/

http://it.moldova.org/news/smartphon...07439-eng.html


Now youve got to post what your bill is when when it arrives


Mart
Old 16 May 2010, 01:39 PM
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I bet that's your phones usage since you got it, not just in america..?

To download a gigabyte you would have had to be on line constantly, watching mobile iplayer etcetc.
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