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Unlocked iPhone Users: How much have you paid for DATA?

Ninja Dom

Ninja Dom

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Hi all,

So I've got an unlocked iPhone here in London. I'm still running 1.0.2 and run it on my Vodafone UK sim card (contract). I bought the iPhone from ebay towards the end of October.

I got in touch with Vodafone just out of curiosity to see how much I had paid so far for data for the month of November. I SHOULD get 100Mb data allowance for free.

Checking the usage on the iPhone reads that I've sent 10Mb and received nearly 50Mb over EDGE. I always stick WiFi on when I'm at home.

Anyway, I've been charged for ALL of my data so far and racked up almost £40 in data charges. I asked why and the advisor told me that he didn't know why as it should be free for me. He went to check and the reply was that my 100Mb allowance DOESN'T include using the Vodafone internet APN. If I had been using the Vodafone WAP APN then I wouldn't have been charged. the iPhone cannot use the Vodafone WAP APN.

They are crediting me back the amount for this month and have asked me to use the Vodafone WAP APN in future (which i can't do).

I mean data is data, right? Regardless of what you use or how you connect, right? Or are Vodafone deliberately discriminating against unlocked iPhones on their network (which they can do as they are fully aware of what IMEI number is being used for a call or data)??

How much has your data charges been with your unlocked iPhones?? Is this right??
 
Data is very expensive in the UK, with many tariffs only giving 100K (not 100Mb) free. For me, this totally killed advanced use of previous phones, as I was too scared of racking up massive data use. Only recently has (limited) data packages been available, and then severely limited except for T-mobile.

This makes the official O2 tariffs rather good. I've racked up over £75 pounds already if I was on my old tariff.

Not what you asked, but the O2 tariff is actually rather good, for a certain subset of customers - me included.
 
O2 now do a £7.50 bolt on for unlimited Internet (strict fair usage policy included!)

With the Vodafone thing, could it be the way you're connecting? Could it be because you're technically connecting either over 3G instead of GPRS or GPRS as opposed to the even more agonizingly slow WAP connection? Just a thought.
 
GilGrissom said:
With the Vodafone thing, could it be the way you're connecting? Could it be because you're technically connecting either over 3G instead of GPRS or GPRS as opposed to the even more agonizingly slow WAP connection? Just a thought.
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With the iPhone there is only one APN profile you can have. You cannot have multiple APN profiles like most phones that may have APN profiles such as "Contract Internet", "Contract WAP", "Pay As You Go WAP", etc...
 
Rogers

I got the 10mb for 10bucks

and the first 3 months is unlimitted

i already have 153 sent and 234recieved


im screwed for when the 3months if over
 
When I got my last phone with Orange I was using data a lot (mostly mail, but some browsing) and my first bill was over £90 on a £30 tariff. So I stopped using it - it was just way to expensive. As Page3 says, this totally killed advanced use of previous phones, and makes the £35 O2 contract worthwhile... until the other networks follow suit and stop ripping us off over data, that is.
 
voltage differences

i have an urgent question. in all the excitement of the iphone i purchased on unlocked from the states last month and am using it in southern Africa. our voltage here is 240 or is it 220v. so i know u can charge it through the wall outlet ok because the charger supports 110 - 240v, but what about through the computer charging and syncing. the voltage of the iphone is 110v and my computer is 240v. what should i do so as not to blow up my iphone when connecting it to the computer??? please help ASAP.....
 
lebo said:
i have an urgent question. in all the excitement of the iphone i purchased on unlocked from the states last month and am using it in southern Africa. our voltage here is 240 or is it 220v. so i know u can charge it through the wall outlet ok because the charger supports 110 - 240v, but what about through the computer charging and syncing. the voltage of the iphone is 110v and my computer is 240v. what should i do so as not to blow up my iphone when connecting it to the computer??? please help ASAP.....
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It works fine because it's USB...

I pay £7.50 a month for 120MB on Vodafone
 
Ninja Dom said:
Or are Vodafone deliberately discriminating against unlocked iPhones on their network (which they can do as they are fully aware of what IMEI number is being used for a call or data)??
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I bought the £7.50 bolt-on and it works a treat...
 
lebo said:
I'm sorry i don't fully understand would u mind elaborating on USB and how they affect voltage pls.
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As far as I am aware, it doesn't matter what your computer uses because the iPhone plugs into any USB2.0 slot and will work/charge.

My iPhone is from America; I am in England. We use different voltages. The iPhone has DC input, from the USB so it isn't like plugging it into the mains.

Even if you plug it into the mains, it comes with a transformer, so you'll be ok.
 
I'm based in Uganda East Africa and I'm currently paying USD 117 monthly for unlimited data on Edge. I think its too high but don't have many options right now.
 
thetonyclifton said:
How did you set this up...what password etc got you on the right vodafone network eg APN? username? password?

How long have you been using this? you havent had any additional charges?

Please reply I need to do this properly.
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For my Vodafone monthly contract network settings I have,

APN: internet
username: web
password: web
 
Just changed mine to internet, wap, wap.

I'll give it a days use and then contact Vodafone again to see if I've been charged the same or if it's come out of my allowance.
 
thetonyclifton said:
How did you set this up...what password etc got you on the right vodafone network eg APN? username? password?

How long have you been using this? you havent had any additional charges?

Please reply I need to do this properly.
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I'm using the £7.50 bolt on as well, can I ask which settings you are using to connect?

Cheers
 
thetonyclifton said:
How did you set this up...what password etc got you on the right vodafone network eg APN? username? password?

How long have you been using this? you havent had any additional charges?

Please reply I need to do this properly.
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These are 100% the settings you need for the Vodafone bolt-on at £7.50, with your Vodafone contract are:

APN: internet
username: wap
password: wap

It's different for PAYG
 
lebo said:
I'm sorry i don't fully understand would u mind elaborating on USB and how they affect voltage pls.
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Regardless of where in the world you are, or what type of power system your wall outlet supplies, every USB host and device in the universe uses the exact same voltages: 5V for the power supply and 3.3V for the data signals. There are no exceptions. When you plug a USB device such as an iPhone into a PC's USB port, you're always going to get the correct voltages. (Unless you're working with a PC whose USB port has suffered physical or electrical damage in the past - then all bets are off.)

The adaptors that you can use to charge your iPhone by plugging it into a wall outlet all work by using special circuitry which converts the mains power supply (typically 110V - 240V AC) into the necessary 5V DC power supply required by the iPhone as imposed by the USB standard.
 
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