HTC Desire Vodafone 500mb Fair Usage Policy

djheath

I posted this on the eforum too. These are my calculations. Rounded up a bit, but generally correct I think.

Well, I just did a quick test. Using 3g watchdog on my HTC desire, I checked what my current usage was. I then went and loaded the BBC news website front page. Just the front page, nothing else. I then checked my usage again.
The results are as follows:

Start:
Total usage: 32.71 mb
Received: 30.32 mb
Transmitted: 2.39 mb

After loading just the BBC news website front page usage had changed to:
Total usage: 33.15 mb
Received: 30.65 mb
Transmitted: 2.5 mb

Difference of:
Total usage: 0.44 mb
Received: 0.33 mb
Transmitted: 0.11 mb

So, going on a total usage that is say roughly rounded up to 500 Kilobytes, or half a meg of data just for one website. Going by there calculations, 8000 bbc news stories:
8000 X 0.5 mb = 4000 mb = 4 GB, not 500 mbs!

Are my calculations wrong!?

DarkConvict

I'm a software engineer too (soon, graduate in July).

But key to websites is they all differ, those like BBC News Mobile use very little data, but a majority of the web is not like that. Mobile pages really are for the good old WAP not the new 3G ways.

Also some phones may cache pages and images other may redownload each time, so it varies so much, VF homepage maybe 1MB each time its loads, or 1MB then only 200KB each time after due to caching.

New phones have a higher resolution screens and are been designed to cope with "proper" webpages accessed by PCs, the only issue with them is they are data heavy to download due to images/adverts over them all.
And sure VF does compress the data but it cant do it enough.

djheath try using BBC News Mobile, not the normal BBC NEWS frontpage, it will be alot less.

danielz000

TheLibertine just had a good one... 500mb = 20minutes of radio a day...

Unlimited Tom says eh?

MattJ_2

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MattJ_2

According to Tom's statement, 500MB is enough to read and reply to 10,000 e-mails, read 8,000 BBC News Stories and download 24 google maps.

http://online.vodafone.co.uk/dispatch/Portal/appmanager/vodafone/wrp?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=template09&pageID=MB_0005

According to the above, if I read 333 e-mails a day (10,000 / 30 for an average month), that would use 599.4MB data. And that is before I do anything else! Such as read the news, use Google Maps, use the radio, general web browsing, social networking, etc.

Add to the above, 1hr web a day, 30 photo uploads (one a day), and ten music track downloads a month, that takes me to 1GB.

Get it sorted.

bym007

Just ran another quick calculation downloading BBC News PDA website (bbc . co . uk / mobile / pda) and thats 3278 pages in 500MB limit.

And that PDA website is so crap that I will never want to go back to it again in my life!

djheath

DarkConvict wrote: »

I'm a software engineer too (soon, graduate in July).

But key to websites is they all differ, those like BBC News Mobile use very little data, but a majority of the web is not like that. Mobile pages really are for the good old WAP not the new 3G ways.

Also some phones may cache pages and images other may redownload each time, so it varies so much, VF homepage maybe 1MB each time its loads, or 1MB then only 200KB each time after due to caching.

New phones have a higher resolution screens and are been designed to cope with "proper" webpages accessed by PCs, the only issue with them is they are data heavy to download due to images/adverts over them all.
And sure VF does compress the data but it cant do it enough.

djheath try using BBC News Mobile, not the normal BBC NEWS frontpage, it will be alot less.

I realise that, but my phone is capable of displaying the full web version of the BBC news website. I dont want to use the mobile version. It's like getting a a Ferrari and only going at 30 mph because it's more fuel efficient. I want the full experience!

devildriven

CaptainD wrote: »

Awesome, thanks to this thread just managed to cancel my Nokia N900 on vf contract 4 months in- (no cancellation charge)

:T

Well done indeed sir but how exactly did you cancel? I've been trying for the last 2 days now!

DarkConvict

I totally agree i dislike mobile websites, the only good thing is they load faster.

bym007

DarkConvict wrote: »

I totally agree i dislike mobile websites, the only good thing is they load faster.

Well, its not really a good thing. Its only 1/10 of the normal news on that page, so you will still be loading 10 more pages to get the whole picture!