O2 scrapping unlimited data

I guess anyone who would have thought this would have lasted was a bit idealistic!

Look at the other networks, they were obviously gonna pull it in line with them sooner or later :)
 
The future is pretty bleak really, smartphone (I'm talking proper smartphones like Android and iPhone) data use is going to keep increasing exponentially ... they need to build a hell of a lot more masts to stand a chance of providing acceptable service in the future.

We need a universal FTTH infrastructure so we can shift freeview onto it and make that spectrum available to Mobile operators.
 
500mb wow how will i ever live......

this is a non-news story really, no one in their right mind should be using that much a month and if they are then their using there phones for something dodgy.


anyway it seems it only applies to the iphone , which is similar to what AT&T are doing.
 
I've just worked this out as their top 3% of users are consuming an average of around 3750GB. In a month that's not such an obscene amount of data considering that Smartphones full fat websites.

That 500MB limit translates to about 3 minutes of video streaming a day if you don't use the web for anything else.
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"this is a non-news story really, no one in their right mind should be using that much a month and if they are then their using there phones for something dodgy."
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Those top 3% of users are only doing the equivalent of 25minutes streaming video a day ... thats not even a single tv ep on iplayer a day.

Throw in google maps streaming for your GPS, Spotify, and full fat browsing (Just opening the BBC front page of news runs you almost 0.4MB) and i'm not surprised that people are finding it easy to go over.

Their stats are a bit dodgy, I'd like the numbers on the breakdown of phone model ownership. I bet that the 97% people with low usage is largely made up of people with phones that provide a terrible internet experience, whilst the 3% is almost entirely their iPhone owners.
 
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iamtheoneneo said:
this is a non-news story really, no one in their right mind should be using that much a month and if they are then their using there phones for something dodgy.
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That must be it, anyone going over 500mb MUST be doing something dodgy and not doing anything legit :rolleyes:

500mb is easily doable on a smartphone without doing anything 'dodgy', although it was always inevitable that networks would start clamping down especially after Vodafone piped up about capping.
 
500mb is ok for me, granted I think I've only used about 10mb this month but that's mainly because 3G on O2 is pathetic anyway so I don't even bother with audio/video streaming with my phone. 9months to go....:(
 
iamtheoneneo said:
500mb wow how will i ever live......

this is a non-news story really, no one in their right mind should be using that much a month and if they are then their using there phones for something dodgy.


anyway it seems it only applies to the iphone , which is similar to what AT&T are doing.
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No - they are bringing it into play at the same time the new iPhone launches.
The 500mb limit is accross the board.

This is exactly the same as what Vodafone introduced a couple of weeks ago.
The difference is that Vodafone have attempted to retrospectively apply it to existing contracts - hence the massive forum threads.
O2 are just doint it to new customers and upgrades.
 
iamtheoneneo said:
500mb wow how will i ever live......

this is a non-news story really, no one in their right mind should be using that much a month and if they are then their using there phones for something dodgy.

anyway it seems it only applies to the iphone , which is similar to what AT&T are doing.
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Bit of a silly comment really fella. If they have an issue with people hammering their bandwidth then they shouldn't push their 'unlimited' data packages as they do.

Lets not forget that just about every single smartphone now on the market comes pre-installed with You-Tube apps, music streaming, full e-mail sync and social networking stuff.

Guess what happens when people are given access to these services...they use em.
 
Hm. If your on a non iphone contract and paying for the unlimited data bolton (£7.50 a month) i guess this isnt changing as per their own words?
 
Awww man this is one of the reason I just went over to O2 for unlimited data. Well guess I will have it for 12 months and then it will be capped.
 
Alpherah said:
Hm. If your on a non iphone contract and paying for the unlimited data bolton (£7.50 a month) i guess this isnt changing as per their own words?
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Hope not, that's what I have ;(
Don't mind a fair usage policy/cap but 500mb seems very low for todays smartphones
 
500MB isn't a lot at all. I've had my Desire 6 days and have used about 170MB and that's without watching any YouTube at all.

Facebook, Twitter, news apps, email, a bit of browsing and the marketplace. They are all small Kb's but they all add up. Happy with T-Mobile's 1GB cap which I still need to get put up to 3GB when I get around to calling them.
 
I've used less than 500mb in the 4 months I've had the iphone:p I seem to use the internet on it quite a bit but it's mainly forums etc so it's tiny amounts of data most of the time.
 
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why annoyingliny? they're doing a vodafone and trying to change existing customers T&Cs
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Having not read through anything yet, is it like Vodafone? What do the terms and conditions say regarding it?

Could be another interesting case.
 
GeX said:
why annoyingliny? they're doing a vodafone and trying to change existing customers T&Cs
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think you mean new customers not existing customers(unless they're coming upto renewal).

I'm only like 3months into my simplicity for smart phones 12month contract, so this wouldn't effect me for now. wonder if I leave it as a rolling contract rather than upgrading, will it stay unlim data or convert to the new 'system'.
 
What is really annoying for me is the inclusion of unlimited texts in all tarrifs (at least smartphone ones). I never use more than a couple of hundred a month so that affects me not a jot... What does affect me however is the removal of inclusive mms and (more importantly) international texts... :(
 
Texts hardly cost operators anything to send though, since they use a tiny amount of data. They can afford to give you unlimited.
Internet on the other hand uses a lot of wireless spectrum capacity, which is finite and overcongested and expensive for them to improve.
 
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Maybe so, but it still means im now going to be paying a fortune for mmms and texting from abroad when it used to just come out of my text bundle!
 
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