Mobal & Blackberry

adam917 · 09-02-2009, 10:45

Does anyone know if what T-Mobile USA is offering will indeed include data and not just e-mail when abroad, as they seem to have an option that costs 20 USD extra that claims to offer just international e-mail & not other data. AT&T's equivalent offer costs more but includes everything. If T-Mobile USA's offer actually does include e-mail or even all BIS traffic I will get it next time I see myself going outside the US.

snidely · 09-02-2009, 21:11

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Originally Posted by adam917

Does anyone know if what T-Mobile USA is offering will indeed include data and not just e-mail when abroad, as they seem to have an option that costs 20 USD extra that claims to offer just international e-mail & not other data. AT&T's equivalent offer costs more but includes everything. If T-Mobile USA's offer actually does include e-mail or even all BIS traffic I will get it next time I see myself going outside the US.

The $20/mo BB option does include unlimited email. Works just like it does here. Diff. is you would pay for data. With TM, you only pay for the time period you use it. IOW, 10 days would cost about $7. You need to call them to activate it, and call or go online to cancel
it when you get back (unless you gave them a stop date when you turned it on.)

...mike

adam917 · 10-02-2009, 09:45

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Originally Posted by snidely

The $20/mo BB option does include unlimited email. Works just like it does here. Diff. is you would pay for data. With TM, you only pay for the time period you use it. IOW, 10 days would cost about $7. You need to call them to activate it, and call or go online to cancel
it when you get back (unless you gave them a stop date when you turned it on.)

...mike

Well for my needs there is no point in using it, as I won't be saving much by having just e-mail be 'included' as even images within the messages don't count as those aren't pushed. HTML alone is not a whole lot of data unless you have say hundreds of e-mails being pushed to the phone daily. Web surfing and instant messaging take up more bandwidth due to overhead and images with the case of web pages.

CallInEurope offers a BlackBerry option but it's pretty expensive (something like 3$/day) for anything over a week just in the country your SIM is assigned to and I think it doesn't include non-BIS data, so that would be charged extra at the usual high roaming rates.

Stu · 13-02-2009, 04:21

ATT's plan does include on device data, but requires a one year commitment. If you are on a Blackberry enterprise plan on device data is functionally included on many of these plans because the carrier can't see what data is going back to your company server. They can, however, see the megabytes. If you do a little IMing or surfing on the device, it will fly through the system. Tethering the device and downloading your favorite movie from Bit Torrent is a different story.

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adam917 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Fan Posts: 187 Join Date: 14 Sep 2008 Location: North America Country:	09-02-2009, 10:45 Does anyone know if what T-Mobile USA is offering will indeed include data and not just e-mail when abroad, as they seem to have an option that costs 20 USD extra that claims to offer just international e-mail & not other data. AT&T's equivalent offer costs more but includes everything. If T-Mobile USA's offer actually does include e-mail or even all BIS traffic I will get it next time I see myself going outside the US.

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	13-02-2009, 04:21 ATT's plan does include on device data, but requires a one year commitment. If you are on a Blackberry enterprise plan on device data is functionally included on many of these plans because the carrier can't see what data is going back to your company server. They can, however, see the megabytes. If you do a little IMing or surfing on the device, it will fly through the system. Tethering the device and downloading your favorite movie from Bit Torrent is a different story.