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Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

smstextnews — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:23:03 -0000

Yes I've begun letting go, Bvlad -- I'm now uploading and using data
properly, now!

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

bvlad — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:10:40 -0000

I've honestly not heard of 'fair usage policy' meaning anything else than 'if you go over this limit, you will be charged extra', but here's hoping...that your next bill won't be even worse ("we reserve the right to charge you for the excessive element of your usage at the standard out of bundle rate for your price plan" - quote is from Vodafone's Mobile Internet TOS).
And it's a bit funny how you asked (or so I gathered) Jakub why ONLY 500MB, and his reply was as if you asked something like 'wow, isn't that too much?'.
Anyway, perhaps you'll be able to get one of those plans that launch June 2nd and all will be well. I die a little bit inside each time you mention having to refrain from uploading stuff.

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

smstextnews — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:08:05 -0000

Oh come now Ben, I've blown, what, nearly a grand on them already this year!

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

bensmith — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:01:45 -0000

A stay of execution, then, before they're warmly welcomed back in from the doghouse?

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

smstextnews — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:26:05 -0000

How so? 500mb is good -- the fair use policy works for me. At the
moment...

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

whatleydude — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:23:23 -0000

Honestly - and this is coming from me, the long time lover of Vodafone - I think you're being a bit *too* kind to them...

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

SteveRowlands — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:52:50 -0000

Ok, I've got a question Re this fair use thingy.

I bought a VF internet dongle today (after much plucking about due to VF's incompentancies, but thats another story) and have got the 3GB plan. However, it says in the small print of the brochure that a fair use policy applies. This contradicts what I got told both from VF CS and in store that if I go over the 3GB limit, then I will be charged extra......

Is the fair use on the dongles actually unfair?

Hmm....

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

Mike42 — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:11:15 -0000

Result!

Welcome to last year's news, Vodafone subscribers. So that's potentially another 11M UK users who maybe won't be quite so terrified of te mobile nets.

Good news for alI I say.

/m

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

andrewgrill — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:47:48 -0000

Woohoo! Can't wait until June 2. Thanks for listening Vodafone.

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

TerenceEden — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:44:32 -0000

From a recent news report
"Vodafone Total Business plans will be launched on 2 June targeting small to medium-sized enterprises, reports Mobile Today. They will replace the existing Sharetime Plus and Small Business price plans. The new plans include individual SMS packs, mobile internet and email packs which can be added to specific users within a company. Standard usage bundles offer 500 MB while high usage bundles offer 5 GB. "

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

smstextnews — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:32:05 -0000

Good luck!

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

smstextnews — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:32:04 -0000

Alfie, the video I did with Adam of Esendex was about 10 minutes long and
32mb in size when I downloaded the flash encoded version. That's where I
got the figure!

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

andrewgrill — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:27:09 -0000

Great, I'll give the people at Vodafone a call and see if I can get the 500MB deal on my Small Business 300 account. Stay tuned...

Re: Vodafone UK and data: Setting the record straight

alfie — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:22:39 -0000

One thing. Earlier you mentioned that your Qik posts were probably at 3mb per minute. This seems about 3x too large. Have you actually checked the file sizes? One of the Directors at Moblog was in the states a while back and she didnt turn Shozu off. What happened was that Shozu tried to upload images in the background her whole trip, never quite making it off the phone, at which point the upload was attempted again. This created something like a £500 data bill. Did you have something like this set on the handset through April?

All in all, I've never understood why anyone who is really data intensive would ever use anything other than one of 3's Xseries packages; it boggles my brain since as far as I can tell its the most reliable, robust and varied package out there.