Can o2 Do this?

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HecFam

HecFam

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Hey guys,

I have a PAYG sim with o2, its a genie sim card so i top up £15 and get unlimited texts and unlimited internet.

lately ive been getting messages saying that ive used my 500mbs worth of internet this month and i will be charged per day to use it...

since ive got a galaxy, i keep the internet on most days just to install updates and whatever, but no its left on it just charges me £1 a day to use the internet.

When i top up it does say i am entitled to unlimited texts and internet. yet it still only gives me 500mb...?

two things, has anyone else had anything like this done to them?

also, would i be able to get anything back from it, since they did not tell me they had moved my internet down to 500mb.

Thanks for the help.
 
Give them a call, I know some companies have a fair usage thing, but if you argue your case they pay drop the charge, hence why I'm with 3, I used 15GB last month on my iPhone and it only cost me £25 a month
 
Many companies claim to offer "unlimited" internet, but actually have a 500MB, 1GB, or 2GB monthly limit. The regulator has allowed them to do this, saying that for phone usage, that is effectively unlimited. Shocking.

I'm on giffgaff, which uses the o2 network - with £10 topups it does give genuinely unlimited internet. It was handy last night, when my ISP was doing maintenance and I lost my landline broadband. I tethered my pc to my phone's connection.
 
O2 do not do Unlimited Internet. It's stupid how they word it.. And realy you should have doubled checked. Go on thier website to have a look.

O2 allowence is 500mb. For them thats, unlimited. Most network provide 500mb to 1Gb.

Three and T-mobile are the only network atm provide Unlimited Internet on certain packages.

If you can use WiFi at home or freinds. I suggest you start using Wifi a lot more for your updates/downloads.
 
15GB, pffft he isn't even trying. Tethering, lots of games, testing stuff, who knows but 15GB is honestly probably not even close to the high rollers on the 3G all in deal I suspect :)
 
T-mobile do unlimited internet for £5 a month or £20 for 6 months on PAYG.

If you have an iphone 4/4S, you can also buy a sim for £10 and get 12 months unlimited internet free.
 
There's a fair use, but if you go over it, there are no run on charges at all. Only download restrictions from 4pm til midnight until the end of the 30 days.

Browsing is completely unlimited.

But on Pay as you go, that's really the best you're gunna get.

It's only contract which has higher fair use/completely unlimited.

Bottom line is - T-mobile don't have run on charges at all.
 
MeMeMeMe said:
I'm on giffgaff, which uses the o2 network - with £10 topups it does give genuinely unlimited internet. It was handy last night, when my ISP was doing maintenance and I lost my landline broadband. I tethered my pc to my phone's connection.
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Except tethering on a goddybag is a breach of giffgaffs abuse policy and can get you a data and MMS ban if your caught.
 
demonix said:
Except tethering on a goddybag is a breach of giffgaffs abuse policy and can get you a data and MMS ban if your caught.
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True enough, but I was only using it for exactly what i'd have been doing without the pc - browsing and email. They are pretty understanding, and only come down on the heavy users - people who tether laptops to keep their torrents running, and the like.
 
uv said:
If you're streaming music - 100MB per album, 5 albums a day - that's 15GB straight off the bat.
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Here's a thought, if you're planning on being out of wifi range for a whole day with nothing else to do and enough time on your hands to listen to 5 albums then how about copying them to your phone the night before. Or even better, he's got a Galaxy, for about 7 quid he could buy a 16gb microSD card and fill it up with enough music to last that whole month of listening to 5 albums a day without hearing a single song twice.
 
Then again, since he has a data plan that allows 15GB, why not just stream whatever he wants whenever he wants, and not have to prepare ahead of time?
 
MeMeMeMe said:
Then again, since he has a data plan that allows 15GB, why not just stream whatever he wants whenever he wants, and not have to prepare ahead of time?
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Because if everyone does that it becomes unsustainable for the provider and fair usage caps have to be implemented. Have you seen that episode of The Simpsons where Homer goes to the all you can eat buffet? If you start getting a high percentage of Homers that tends to ruin it for everyone else.
 
InertProtocol said:
Just out of curiousity...how?.
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I tether to my iPad, and my PC has a weird problem where Windows Update doesn't work on my network so I have to do updates through my phones 3G, not to mention I stream live TV to my PC when playing on the PS3.

Em3bbs said:
Here's a thought, if you're planning on being out of wifi range for a whole day with nothing else to do and enough time on your hands to listen to 5 albums then how about copying them to your phone the night before. Or even better, he's got a Galaxy, for about 7 quid he could buy a 16gb microSD card and fill it up with enough music to last that whole month of listening to 5 albums a day without hearing a single song twice.
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I have an iPod Classic with all my music, I don't stream anything to my iPhone, except TV and I use VNC to control my PC. Thats easily 15GB
 
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