Koli, it has been rumoured that the new W7 phones use 30MB-50MB a day... idle!

Also the issue is not whether 500MB is enough, it's the fact you might have signed up for a 3GB plan for two years only for T-Mobile a few weeks later say "well actually we're chaning it to 500MB". It's out of order.

Thankfully they're only applying this now to NEW contracts taken out from February. All current customers will keep their current allowance. I presume they did a swift u-turn as people were up in arms about it - as would I have been if I were on T-Mobile!

Until they come to renew their contracts, then they get dropped to the new limit.

Jon

But at least at this point you are free to leave and go elsewhere e.g. to 3 who have a genuine unlimited data plan. I even get 750MB with Orange!

I would have thought that existing contracts should be honoured. Otherwise this is such a large change in terms that you should be allowed to walk away from the contract.

The thing is though, all the new handsets are using HD and streaming as selling points. And frankly, if it's available, why shouldn't people be able to access it? For me 500mb is ample for the odd bit of Facebook, and navigational/search results. But I don't have a smarthphone. When looking at the ex's iPhone 4 last night, I was amazed to see that 1.1gig of the phone's memory is used by apps. So imagine you're an app whore and you have a phone with a good screen and like to watch video on it - you're screwed.

The fault here isn't with people for using too much, it's with the networks for providing it with one hand and then moaning that they don't have the capacity, on the other.

Only 1gb? You think that's a lot? Think I have about 3gb on mine.

It's ludicrous. You could get a small country into 3gig. On a device that's supposed to be a PMP with a phone, 3gig is potential a lot of media.

+1

3gb is a monster amount of info.

If you're going to promote a phone based on its internet and media capabilities, you can't then complain about what a burden it is on your network.

I seem to remember O2 getting upset about iPhone data usage, WTF did they think was going to happen?

Mobile data is the future, trying to restrict it in this manner is not going to do innovation or the economy any favours. If these networks don't like the cost of the bandwidth, perhaps they should be striking deals with public WiFi providers instead.

For once, I completely agree with you!

p.s. you could fit a Linux OS into 3gig, right??

You can fit linux on to a floppy

But you couldn't fit a lightsaber noise, or a picture of a pint getting drunk onto a floppy! What's the world coming to?!