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Originally Posted by Paragon
Are you guys not aware that for several months now Bell and Telus have had unlimited web browsing for $7/$15 a month? Technically it's not supposed to include tethering...although some folks do. I'm not sure if the limited feature set of the iPhone allows it to tether, does it? 
Dave |
Not sure I could tether my O2 Atom to a Telus or Bell phone... nor that I'd want to incur all the other charges associated with another full account. And I kind of like sticking with GSM, for the SIM portability between devices and for potential use in other countries. Telus at least is sticking with CDMA, aren't they?
But that's not really what jumps out for me the most here. Wasn't there quite a bit of discussion not long ago about Bell's 'unlimited' package, to the effect that unlimited meant 100MB or something absurd like that? I seem to recall a lawsuit in Ontario somewhere, some guy getting a multi-thousands of dollars bill from Bell for using his tethered 'unlimited' cellphone for p2p movie sharing, used something like 50GB+ of data in a month and they whacked him with this ridiculous bill. $70,000 wasn't it? And he talked them down to 'only' a few thousand?
Anyway, if these companies truly are offering even a 1GB/month 'unlimited' data plan at those rates, times are definitely changing. I've just been dismissing the possibility of using anything but Wi-Fi for data with my O2 because of this very thing. My business really can't justify data-anywhere when it costs so much as it has in the past, but it would be nice, if not too outrageous.