I've just started an 18-month contract with t-mobile on their Flext-35 (£30 and you get £180 of credit allowance).
They push their "Web'n'Walk" Service alot for an extra £7.50 and I'm wondering if the allowance covers the mobile internet data if I don't get the service, or not.
Internet costs are capped to £1 a day, I don't mind spending £31 of the allowance, but I don't want to end up with a £61 bill at the end of the month if it's not. Does anyone know if it is/isn't covered by the allowance?
Flext (http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/price-plans/pay-monthly/flext/plans/)
Web'n'Walk (http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/price-plans/pay-monthly/webnwalk/plans/)
(When I text for a balance request after testing the internet it says "Unbilled is £0.40" I'm not sure how they handle this if it's taken care of by the allowance each month etc...but I fear it's going to arrive as an extra bill)
I don't think internet access comes with the standard Flext plan and without it most operators will cane you for data charges. If you're going to do e-mail and web surfing from your phone I strongly suggest you pick the web'n'walk plan.
Personally I do e-mail everyday and around half an hours internet access plus a bit of google maps from time to time. Music and video downlaods etc are done via my phones built in wifi. I guess I use about 15 - 20 meg a month. If you are going to do anything like that get the web plan as well.
I can get maps through the satnav thats built in, and get plenty of mins and texts, I don't think I do enough websurfing to justify the extra £7.50. It would have been nice if a token amount was included (a couple of meg a month or something) to cover the little data transfers some programs use.
If youre downloading the maps that would count as downloading from the internet on your handset, and therefore be charged... or at least thats the case with O2 :blink:
I agree the maps are a huge download. If you have a Nokia then go to their web site and grab the free map down-loader. Also go through the phones settings and check for what is trying to auto update from the web especially if it is a smartphone. You'd be amazed at what sort of stuff will try to connect to the net and download things. I know a few friends who didn't set their phones up (i.e. one mistakenly let a built in weather application grab weather updates from the web). They all got a few nasty bills they were not expecting. One complete fool got a £700 bill, although they were downloading music and films etc. How they thought it was all going to be free amazes me :eyebrow:
i think the best one ive had is a customer bought a usb data card, and asked me whether they could use it abroad, i said yes.. but dont, its too expensive (at the time i think it was like £6.05/mb).
three weeks later she returned with it not working, i call up for her and find out shes used it abroad and rung up a £1500+ bill :roflmao:
Quote from: chrisje;225441If youre downloading the maps that would count as downloading from the internet on your handset, and therefore be charged... or at least thats the case with O2 :blink:
It's not downloaded, it's the mobile phone version of TomTom or whatever, it all comes on a MicroSD card. I know some phones use GPS and don't include maps (Like the N95), because of it being stored I won't use too much data time. Still it's a shame if there is absolutely no data included on a contract package and it's very hard to find out if it is or isn't included by reading their website.
It still uses an internet connection to grab updates etc.
More about web'n'walk (javascript:;) Web'n'walk is very similar to using the internet on a PC, meaning:
- You can visit any site you want
- You can do all the same things - search, read, shop and interact
- Normal-sized web pages load in a few seconds
But unlike surfing on a PC,
you can access the internet in any location where you have mobile coverage. And because web'n'walk is unlimited* you can browse as much as you want and
never worry about cost.
from the t-mobile site however the unlimited has an asterix implying there are certain conditions but it doesn't say what they are. I'd contact their customer service and ask.