Mobile Monday - Check your data plan
2009-05-04, 12:00:00

Mobile Monday - Check your data plan

Today we look at a small but growing trend of cell phone customers being affected by cell phone data plan misunderstandings...

I was checking out BlackBerry Forums-as I sometimes do, and I ran across a great question about BlackBerry data plans from a user. This user effectively was asking about potential problems with cell phone providers claiming they have provided the customer with one of their unlimited data plans. Moreover, the user wanted to know how a cell phone customer can get into trouble with bandwidth overages.

I responded to user in the following way:

...Some service providers claim they have "unlimited data plans" but in reality they are actually monitoring your bandwidth very closely (I call these pseudo-unlimited data plans). Moreover, if you go past a certain threshold (say 5 GB of bandwidth) with the
service provider offering one of these "pseudo-unlimited data plans", then you
will get charged based on how much you go over that amount.

See this article -- Link --> Oops! 6 Crazy Mobile and Expensive Cell Phone Charges - ABC News

-mmuras



Although this kind of activity may shock some people, to me it is just another form of cell phone and Internet Service Providers looking for a way to get more money into their pockets.

The point is if you are not sure if you have a truly unlimited data plan, then check with your service provider before going crazy with downloads.

-mmuras