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[quote][i]Originally posted by Dom[/i] [quote][i]Originally posted by bubble[/i] of course the bandwith is there, or we would have had network crashes like o2 did. its simply a tool to stop people abusing and taking advantage of a free service! how is 500mb pathetic? for mobile browsing its a huge amount. your asuming everyone is going to go over 500mb, but what are you basing this on? our retention department would notice people leaving us due to a fair use policy being applied. fact is, people arent using over 500mb, and if they are, then its through tethering. its just another example of people moaning because they think they are bein hard done by! the reality is, that since 2008 it has been 500mb, prior to that it was 120mb. its just now, we are saying that if it is abused, you will get charged. by using the devices correctly, people wont get charged, so not really an issue. we just live in a nanny state where people like to moan and complain. personally, getting even 500mb on a contract is good. look at the states, they get charged something ridiculous like $35 for 100mb. [/quote] 500MB is pathetic! I listen to a fair amount of podcasts, if i grab one of the Radio 1 podcasts it's 19MB and if i did that every day i'd be over the limit without any other data usage. Another example is using something like Google Maps. I've worked out it's roughly 1MB (nearer 2MB at street level) per mile. If i do a few trips up north then i can easily burn 500MB. You also have apps like Spotify and Youtube which will happily eat data as well. And i'm not assuming anything, you clearly haven't read the forums (even your own forum is full of posts about this, although Voda staff are doing wonders of deleting a lot of it). Yes there are a few people just pissed because they can be but a majority of the backlash is from genuine customers who don't take the piss downloading Gigs upon Gigs or tether, but do go over the 500mb limit by 10/20mb on a monthly basis just from normal use. You also don't seem to understand the difference between a FUP limit, which Voda have been running for the last few years, and a hard-limit, which Voda is putting in place. FUPs have leeway, a hard-limit doesn't. And if Vodafone have the network and backend bandwidth to deal with it, then why haven't they set it to something more reasonable, like 1GB? If anyone is tethering then it'll be GBs not MBs! And although bandwidth isn't cheap (roughly £1 per GB, i imagine it's a few pennies more for networks though) in the UK, i can't see an extra 500mb making much difference to the grand scale of things. Also at the moment only a tiny portion of your Vodafone's customer base know about this, it'll be different when Vodafone text (texting seems to be Vodafones normal method of contact) everyone to let them know this is taking place from the 1st June. To be honest, i'm not sure why i'm giving a shit about this as i'm not a Vodafone customer :lol: I'm happy as larry on my FUP with O2 :cool: [/quote]
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