The iPhone and the fair use cap caper
By Chris Green in Reader
Posted in Smartphones, Mac OS, iPhone, Apple on November 5, 2007 at 5:06 pm
O2 has had a rethink about its iPhone fair use cap, and not a moment too soon as the iPhone goes on sale here this Friday. However, is the revised fair use policy really any better?
The reason I ask is that the new policy announced by the phone operator appears to be a mixture of very clear and definite no-nos (such as taking the SIM out of the iPhone for use in a data-intensive device like a GPRS modem card), sitting alongside new guidelines on acceptable use that no longer feature the ridiculously low cap of 200MB, but which confirm the ongoing existence of a fair use limit, only with no guidance at all on what it is, let alone whether and when a legitimate end user can expect to have their service cut-off, curtailed or otherwise limited for heavy use.
200MB was just plain stupid
Rated: 100% (5 votes)
Loading ...Comment by - November 20, 2007 on 1:04 pm
It is worth adding that after prolonged use of the iPhone, you start to realise how reliant it is on a Wi-Fi connection over and above O2’s Edge/GPRA service, mainly because the latter is so slow compared to rival GPRS services.
Comment by - June 16, 2009 on 3:22 pm
can u by me an iphone please!
Make a comment
Tag cloud
Most commented posts
- Microsoft planning a Zune-based smartphone
16 comments
- Microsoft's move on Yahoo won't succeed
- Amazon bolts from DVD rentals as digital competition takes hold
- In-flight broadband ready for take-off
- Now the dust has settled....A considered look at Apple's announcements
- IT PRO unaffected by earthquake
- Facebook for BlackBerry - a licence to print money?
- Leaked pics of the Skypephone 2
- The iPhone and the fair use cap caper
- Motorola boss had to fall on his sword
Highest Rated Blog Posts
- The iPhone and the fair use cap caper (100%)
- In-flight broadband ready for take-off (100%)
- Predictions for 2008 (100%)
- Live blogging the Apple Keynote from Macworld (100%)
- Now the dust has settled....A considered look at Apple's announcements (100%)
- Amazon bolts from DVD rentals as digital competition takes hold (100%)
- When is a free laptop not actually free? When it comes with a dongle! (100%)
- Love your SysAdmin (100%)
- Facebook for BlackBerry - a licence to print money? (100%)
- PDC Day One begins (100%)