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#211938 3-May-2009 21:10

scottjpalmer:
ahmad: Not liking my chances of getting decent data on XT though - their "test drive" campaign involves given x number of customers a new phone and 240MB (!!!) of monthly data to use. Reading in between the lines I don't believe their data plans will offer a lot more data than VF's current plans.

I'm a reasonably heavy user of data on my E71 and struggle to use much more than about 100MB / month - 240MB is a decent amount unless you are tethering or downloading a lot of songs/videos.

Have wanted to ask this for some time, and now is as good a time as any.

I have used my iPhone on about 3-5 occasions on $1 casual data for 10Mb in a day while on holidays.

The only thing I've used the iPhone for has been email, and VERY light websurfing - usually to get a little bit of information via a Google search.

Almost inevitably I've had to turn my data tap OFF during the day in order to prevent going over. I've always received the 8Mb warning TXT, and even overshot by 200kb once.

My apps are not updating in the background as far as I know. The apps don't update unless I access them.

I am not sure how geeks like scott and the rest of us could keep under 100Mb a month to be completely honest. Opening a non-mobile enhanced page full of flashy ads (sorry Geekzone but your site was not at all helpful in keeping me under the 10Mb) could alone cost me a significant chunk in images alone!

So what am I doing wrong or different to you guys??

P.S. Is there a site on the internet which you can ask it to load a url (eg. www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp) and get it to give you an idea of how much data it would cost to load that page?

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#211946 3-May-2009 21:19

ahmad: P.S. Is there a site on the internet which you can ask it to load a url (eg. www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp) and get it to give you an idea of how much data it would cost to load that page?

If you used a real phone

it would tell you in the header of the browser how much data that page load used - your example uses ~600kB

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#212101 4-May-2009 13:52

See - how do you keep under 100Mb per month when a single load of Geekzone eats up 600kb?

That's 1/16 (th) of my daily allocation of 10Mb.

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#212104 4-May-2009 14:19

You dont request that full 600kb on every request though, I would say the majority of it would be js and css etc that could be cached

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#212105 4-May-2009 14:21

I can never tell. GPRS is so slow.

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#212106 4-May-2009 14:28

haha yeh GPRS is rubbish, 3G all the way!

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#212108 4-May-2009 14:42

Still - I don't see how people are easily keeping under these artificial caps without varying their usage.

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#212112 4-May-2009 14:52

ahmad: Still - I don't see how people are easily keeping under these artificial caps without varying their usage.

Really depends on how you use it... I'm normally in WIFI... so do most traffic over wifi. I'm also not browsing YouTube... so at the moment I've only used 40MB and only have a 10 days to go.

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#212115 4-May-2009 15:05

No youtube for me.

As I said, just email (from Yahoo! and Gmail) and very light web browsing (sometimes non-mobile enhanced sites) always pushes me to the 8Mb daily TXT.

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#212120 4-May-2009 15:17

ahmad: No youtube for me.

As I said, just email (from Yahoo! and Gmail) and very light web browsing (sometimes non-mobile enhanced sites) always pushes me to the 8Mb daily TXT.

Sounds strange... doesn't sound like much. When I used 10MB a day i stayed under it pretty easily... and this was for when I went away... so there would be using the GPS from Auckland for 4 hours and then checking all my email... 50-60 including HTML email and also checking RSS feeds and viewing any decent articles. Should be easy to stay under.

Though it sounds like you might need the surfer pack $40 for 512MB.

It is easy... but seriously... $10 for 100MB... if people in other countries knew we were exited about that they would pee their pants. It's nothing at all.

It just means that we are falling further behind. It changes the way that we can use data enabled devices.

For e.g. even on adsl a service like netflix (online) or hulu or sling wouldn't survive in New Zealand. We are all too used to counting how much data we are using to just hose through it on a few movies. Oh... that is a bit OT so I'm going to stop that rant.

Let's surf the Internets like it's 1999!

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#212121 4-May-2009 15:27

As I said I'm not hopeful (though wanting to be surprised) about XT's offering...

240Mb/month to "test drive" their services.

It's like being driven around the block to decide if you want to buy a new car.

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#212330 5-May-2009 00:25

ahmad: As I said I'm not hopeful (though wanting to be surprised) about XT's offering...
240Mb/month to "test drive" their services.
It's like being driven around the block to decide if you want to buy a new car.

I hope you haven't entered then, leave the comp for those that do want it.

This is now OT, back to the "Vodafone New Data Pack" . . .

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#212561 5-May-2009 16:21

scottjpalmer:
ahmad: As I said I'm not hopeful (though wanting to be surprised) about XT's offering...
240Mb/month to "test drive" their services.
It's like being driven around the block to decide if you want to buy a new car.

I hope you haven't entered then, leave the comp for those that do want it.

This is now OT, back to the "Vodafone New Data Pack" . . .

Why wouldn't I want 240Mb over the 0Mb I currently have?

And speculation/discussion about the other side of the duopoly's offering isn't entirely off topic.

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#213191 7-May-2009 14:58

Further to my belief that Vodafone is misleading in its advertising of $10/100Mb/month for "Prepay", here is a Google ad appearing on Geekzone:

Prepay Mobile Broadband
Now you can get Mobile Broadband on Prepay from $10/month for 100MB
www.vodafone.co.nz

Again, no reference to "only available on SUPA Prepay"

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#213197 7-May-2009 15:06

ahmad: Further to my belief that Vodafone is misleading in its advertising of $10/100Mb/month for "Prepay", here is a Google ad appearing on Geekzone:

Prepay Mobile Broadband

Now you can get Mobile Broadband on Prepay from $10/month for 100MB

www.vodafone.co.nz

Again, no reference to "only available on SUPA Prepay"

I'd be the first to jump on VF for doing something wrong, but...

You'll see that they don't actually offer those plans anymore. How far back should the disclaimer go? Should it say not available on Prepay plans offered by Bell South too?

Would be nice if they didn't make us give away our still expensive calling prices to get addons... I feel your pain. But maybe it's time to make the switch??? Who uses a phone to call people anyway ;)

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