Comments on: Australia’s iPhone plans are bad, but not horrible

By: Symphonious » Content In The Mobile World

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By: iPhone adventures « Andy’s blog

iPhone adventures « Andy’s blog — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:01:40 +0000

[...] the Optus $39/month plan. About the same price as my existing plan, with 500mb of data per month; AJ convinced me that I didn’t even need the 700mb I had originally planned for. As I mentioned in my last [...]

By: Adrian Sutton

Adrian Sutton — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:41:42 +0000

Yes I imagine that applications will increase the amount of data I use but again only when I don’t have wifi. O2 are great in the uk because you get access to the cloud wifi zones for free and they have partnerships with BTOpenZone and a heap of others so your iPhone gets wifi all over the place.

Apple’s app connection will probably switch since wifi is so much more reliable. The persistent connection they keep won’t be a single persistent connection just a connection that’s open whenever pissble so when you change networks it switches. Otherwise it couldn’t handle wifi but no phone reception or ibternational roaming etc.

By: Spyder

Spyder — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:53:50 +0000

hehe.

Considering I also have wifi at home and at work, I was actually considering a $39 500mb plan – adds $100 to the overall phone cost, but better matches my call usage and drops the TCO to $1220.

I couldn’t find any decent indicators of how much data you really use on the phone, so thanks for that. I can see myself easily using more than 50mb once I have a few apps installed, I somehow doubt their app connection from the apple servers will switch to wifi. Still, 500mb is a lot considering how little I’m generally out of wifi range.

In fact the more I think about it, $51 a month total sounds like a great idea. If I ever start going over quota regularly, I’m sure Optus would love me to upgrade to the higher cost plan with 700mb

By: Adrian Sutton

Adrian Sutton — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:59:31 +0000

Sach le blur! 700mb! (why yes, I am waiting for my flight home from Paris… they have iMacs in the business lounge…) If you can use more than 700mb of data on an *iPhone*, you need a life. My grand total iPhone data usage last month was 50Mb. You have 650Mb to go.

The only way you’re going to use serious amounts of data on an iPhone is if you spend your life on the train and don’t have a wifi network at work or home (thus you use edge/3G everywhere). I have wifi nearly everywhere I go (including half the train ride) and thus hardly touch the edge network.