O2 fair usage policy and iPhone

Vegeta · 2 Aug 2008 at 17:33

hi, just recently got a iPhone and was wondering what the download limit of the fair usage policy. Also am I right in thinking that if I'm connected to a wifi network then it's free? I'm finding wherever I go I'm always using wifi and not o2's 3g network.

Thank you.

Brain · 2 Aug 2008 at 17:36

it will only be data provided through the O2 network that is taken into acount so therefore wifi is all free my friend

*posted on my iPhone, with full bars 3G signal mwhahaha

TheMagicPirate · 2 Aug 2008 at 17:38

I was told that the data via 3G is capped at 40GB!! :eek:

Brain · 2 Aug 2008 at 17:41

and you think realistically that could be reached in one month on an iPhone?

meghatronic · 2 Aug 2008 at 17:42

TheMagicPirate said:
I was told that the data via 3G is capped at 40GB!!

I thought it was 200Gb, but now it's truly "unlimited".

TheMagicPirate · 2 Aug 2008 at 17:43

Brain said:
and you think realistically that could be reached in one month on an iPhone?

Totally not, even downloading 24/7. the ' :eek:

' was at how high it was.

Brain · 2 Aug 2008 at 17:45

indeed, I think it's of little concern.

Vegeta · 2 Aug 2008 at 18:33

I don't think that's right women at store said 200 meg maybe. I'm using iPhone too Reading this forum feels weird ha.

Beepcake · 2 Aug 2008 at 19:55

says 256mb per month on my paperwork.

Spyhop · 2 Aug 2008 at 20:04

WTF? How is it legal to call that "Unlimited" ?

TheMagicPirate · 2 Aug 2008 at 20:17

The story I'd heard was that it started as about 200mb, but people were going mental about it so they had to up it.

Vegeta · 2 Aug 2008 at 20:51

It's not really a problem everywhere I go it picks up every1's wireless signal lol so i'm just raping them.

Teley · 3 Aug 2008 at 16:01

With the new app store offering access to use your iphone as a gateway for a laptop I'd imagine they would crack down on fair usage limits as it would be much easier to abuse it.

Adrianr · 3 Aug 2008 at 18:03

Teley said:
With the new app store offering access to use your iphone as a gateway for a laptop I'd imagine they would crack down on fair usage limits as it would be much easier to abuse it.

Haven't they pulled that? As you're not techniaclly allowed to use your iPhone for tethering, so an App being available in the App Store was a little funny.

It was 200mb, then they went mental and upped it to supposedly truely 'unlimited', as long as it was only your phone accessing the data. As lets be honest, how much can you realistically download over 3G/Edge using your phone w/out tethering?

Spyhop · 3 Aug 2008 at 19:04

Quite a lot, I imagine.. You could sit on BBC iPlayer all day!

It was 200mb, then they went mental and upped it to supposedly truely 'unlimited'

Is that in writing anywhere? Might be pertinent to save a copy

Adrianr · 4 Aug 2008 at 13:27

wush said:
Quite a lot, I imagine.. You could sit on BBC iPlayer all day!

That's the thing though, you couldn't really.. Phone battery won't last much longer than a few episodes. You could plug it in but then your most likely near a computer anyway, and watching anything on this size screen gets a little tedious! I think for general use most people won't even make a dent.. And there won't be enough people sat on iPlayer or YouTube enough to warrant a 250mb cap being brought back in..

Actually just checked my cellular data useage, and I use this phone for the internet quite a bit, few YouTube videos and a couple of episodes of mock the week, and I'm at 155mb received, with my month to renew on the 12th..

Beepcake · 4 Aug 2008 at 18:14

Adrianr said:
That's the thing though, you couldn't really.. Phone battery won't last much longer than a few episodes. You could plug it in but then your most likely near a computer anyway, and watching anything on this size screen gets a little tedious! I think for general use most people won't even make a dent.. And there won't be enough people sat on iPlayer or YouTube enough to warrant a 250mb cap being brought back in..

Actually just checked my cellular data useage, and I use this phone for the internet quite a bit, few YouTube videos and a couple of episodes of mock the week, and I'm at 155mb received, with my month to renew on the 12th..

187 Meg after a couple of weeks here.. and I haven't been using it as much as my old one.

Adrianr · 4 Aug 2008 at 19:08

Quote from o2

UNLIMITED DATA / WIFI EXCESSIVE USAGE POLICY
Your O2 tariff for iPhone allows you unlimited use of Telefónica O2 UK Limited's Edge / GPRS networks and The Cloud's UK Wireless LAN network, for personal internet use, email and Visual Voicemail (VVM) on your iPhone only. All usage must be for your private, personal and non-commercial purposes.
You may not use your SIM Card in any other device, or use your SIM Card or iPhone to allow the continuous streaming of any audio / video content, enable Voice over Internet (Voip), P2P or file sharing or use them in such a way that adversely impacts the service to other customers of O2 or The Cloud. If O2 reasonably suspect you are not acting in accordance with this policy O2 reserves the right to impose further charges, impose network protection controls which may reduce your speed of transmission or disconnect your tariff at any time, having attempted to contact you first.

Which to me pretty much says aslong as you're not using it for tethering you're ok..

And: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/news/135273/o2-scraps-iphone-data-limit.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/11/03/cniphone103.xml

A couple more to be found... Old articles relating to the old iPhone, so unless they've gone back on their 'truely unlimited' stance I presume the same applies to 3G iPhones as well.