I’ve just upgraded my mobile contract with carphone warehouse. They have just given me a free bolt on promotion with unlimited internet with a 200MB fair usage policy.

I need to know if I can have GMAIL setup on my N96 to send and receive emails on the go without going over the 200MB as I don’t have an idea of how much i will use in a month.

Also I use fring some times so can I also use that without going over 200MB. Please advise.

I don’t think it is unreasonable to say that the vast majority of internet users or 100% of users I have spoken to feel conned by companies using these unethical tactics.

You see, here in the UK, what business wants business gets.

Throttling communication can only lead to slower economic growth.

Internet service providers have abused the term “unlimited” for quite some time.

I’m with BT Broadband, with their “unlimited” option 3, however if I use the Internet too much, the first thing they do is slow my connection down from 4Mb to 256kb (and I’m advertised 8Mb but I can’t get that due to signal noise), and a stern letter if I fall out of their ambiguous, and imaginary fair usage policy. 20GB of data in a month should set the major throttling off for the following month. BT are yet to give an quantitative figures for their usage policy.

To me it is quite simple, UNLIMITED means UNLIMITED.

To use any small print or T&C’s to subvert the meaning of UNLIMITED is an insult to peoples intelligence, and the law should not allow it.

In additon the power of Twitter (thank you – you know who you are!) has resulted in me obtaining the contact details of a senior chap in O2. I will get in touch with him in the next few days and ask him about O2’s policy on web mobile.

Has anyone got any questions for him?

O2’s G3 network is probably cracking under the strain of all those shinny new iphones, Its already reported that there data network is running much slower that other UK carriers. At a guess there probably pissed at the level of upstream data your using as apposed to actual downloads.

Your probably going to have to ration your qik’s sessions or risk getting charged..

The technologies Jo wants to use her phone for are no passive consuming ones. She’s engaging with the world and relaying that TO the internet, not merely absorbing content from it. She’s creating her own media based on her personal experiences in the world. It arguably makes one more aware of their surroundings, rather like walking around with a camera actively looking for things to photograph and, in doing so, becoming more aware of the details.

To your “Enjoy the world around you” I’d add “and share its wonder with others.”

Well I hope that they don’t give you trouble. Fight them. Or tell them you will take your business elsewhere.
They should really just offer a truly unlimited package for a bit more money.

Unfortunately, however wrong it is that “unlimited” is actually limited – 02’s little get-out clause isn’t really that buried. I’ve just been to their online shop, clicked “SIM Only” and there’s a clear link to “terms apply” – which says just what is quoted in the post.

However wrong it is – its there. Getting angry with them (or other people calling them names) is unlikely to change anything. 02 are owned by a £multi-billion international company – “computer says no”.

Unless you want to take up the “advertising standards” torch on the general “unlimited” con trick of all companies……..there’s only one solution……and it may not be popular:

“USE THE PHONE LESS”

Honestly – if you’re not in the office, or at home, enjoy and absorb the world around you – engage in that world – the here and the now of where you are and who you’re with. There is nothing that 02 or anyone could possibly stream to your phone than is more amazing than just looking up at the sky.

Seriously……bin the phone. Buy one to make calls if needs must occasionally – but you really really really really don’t need to be blasting your head with ucky phone waves on the move. Enjoy the world around you instead.

Off my hippy soapbox now.