Hey Gang,
After dealing with a moron Fido operater for a good chunk of the day wondering how my first bill (with an iPhone) was bigger than expected, I was hoping someone can enlighten me with some Tips on keeping your bill manageble.
I thought I could just keep an eye on my "data Sent" and keep it under the 25Meg plan I currently have, but somehow found out by Mr. Moron that I went over my 25meg (when my 'end of month' usage was around 15 meg according to my Edge "data Sent").
So, Could someone answer:
Do incoming emails count against your data? with or without attachments?
what if you re-open an email or attachment?
When you're on a WiFi network, can you do emails, attachments, surf, etc without ANY usage toward your data plan?
I thought I knew alot of these things, but dealing with the Fido operater today, I'm terrified!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please, feel free to add any other Tips...life was so easy for me havng a sidekick for so long.
data is all incoming and outgoing (sent and received) information. so emails (unless you have an email plan) as well as browsing the web (this is both outgoing and incoming data) counts towards your 25mbs
wifi does not count because it is not passing through the providers network so they cant keep track of it for billing
I've been keeping track of my data usuage with the 'EDGE Network Data' stats reseting after each billing cycle...this month, i was under my 25megs (sent 1.9MB/Received 21.1MB) ....problem is, when I get my bill, it's got me at almost 31megs!? besides staying on Wifi as much as possible because I'm pretty much a homebody, how is this happening!!!????
I've been keeping track of my data usuage with the 'EDGE Network Data' stats reseting after each billing cycle...this month, i was under my 25megs (sent 1.9MB/Received 21.1MB) ....problem is, when I get my bill, it's got me at almost 31megs!? besides staying on Wifi as much as possible because I'm pretty much a homebody, how is this happening!!!????
What's going on!!!!
help.
I had the exact same thing! The iPhone said 6mb and Fido said 16! Cancel your data plan and sign up for the new $18 value pack which includes 12mb of data, is free for the first month and allows unlimited data for the first four months... And then hope that Fido sort out a reasonable unlimited plan between now and then!!!
CAUTION!!!! Another user on these boards signed up to the $18/unlimited plan and just got stuffed with a $245 bill. It only counts for mobile browsing to specific sites/areas. watch the smallprint!
One of the big reasons for the bills being higher than the should be is that Fido bills data per KB AFAIK. And by that I mean that if you perform a transfer that is under 1KB (such as a 30 byte instant nessage or email, for example) they may bill you for the whole KB anyway. Basically, it's the data plan equivalent of "per minute" billing on voice plans. As I said in the other Fido data thread, I'm interested I'm seeing what my bill will be at the end of this month, as I&ve already used 12.9MB on my so called "unlimited" plan.
My solution was to call Rogers and ask that they disable EDGE from my phone. That way, I've eliminated the possibility of paying their king's ransom for data.
Downtown, I rarely have much trouble finding an open wifi source to check my email.
With your iPhone you can get an application using Installer.app called "Services" which will allow you to disable the Edge network. Oddly, I found that even if I had nothing set for my Edge settings, I mean blank, that my iPhone still connected to Fido Edge Data and I was building up data charges. (Is there an active pList file someplace that contains these settings?)
Sadly, in Canada today the best approach is to shun any wireless data service as the charges are simply insane. WiFi is getting to be ubiquitous and is relatively easy to find with the iPhone interface.
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