Orange 500mb Data and HTC Desire

ruggedtoast

I would first call Orange and see if they can move you up to the Panther plan, which I think, has an FUP on the the 500 meg rather than a hard cap.

Double check what they tell you though. Orange seemed even more confused about their FUP than Vodafone. If you check on your account you'll see a data meter if you're on the limited plan. This wont be there if you're on the fup apparently.

Wh05apk

I work from home using wifi, but when out on appointments use google maps frequently (about 200miles per week) + emails updating every 5 minutes on 2 accounts (upto 100 emails a day) + live stock streaming and at my current usage will only use 136mb this month, so 500mb for me should be enough.

People saying they can use 500mb in an afternoon are why we have all been capped, that's the equivilant of 15gb+ pm.

mwille14

I am beginning to get a grasp on this. Capped data is something that we are beginning to see purely because the networks cant handle the amount of data currently being used. I feel we are moving towards this across all networks.

For general internet (using Opera Mini when on 3G), emails, twitter updates, an occasional look at a map I feel 500mb is fine. Obviously if you want to do more save it for when you can use wireless.

Think about it. Someone could pick your phone up, decide to spend an hour mucking about on Youtube (3 megabytes a minute) and thats cost you £180.

Maybe I am wrong but is this not the equivalent to someone using your phone to call Australia for an hour?

With a bit of responsible use of the HTC Desire i.e. not having apps constantly downloading data and not having autosync on you can still use this phone to its potential.

Be interested to hear from some people who are using the Desire as to their thoughts.

ruggedtoast

mwille14 wrote: »

I am beginning to get a grasp on this. Capped data is something that we are beginning to see purely because the networks cant handle the amount of data currently being used. I feel we are moving towards this across all networks.

For general internet (using Opera Mini when on 3G), emails, twitter updates, an occasional look at a map I feel 500mb is fine. Obviously if you want to do more save it for when you can use wireless.

Maybe I am wrong but is this not the equivalent to someone using your phone to call Australia for an hour?

With a bit of responsible use of the HTC Desire i.e. not having apps constantly downloading data and not having autosync on you can still use this phone to its potential.

Be interested to hear from some people who are using the Desire as to their thoughts.

Calling Australia for an hour isnt the same as having a phone that polls data itself, and can burn through 10 megabytes of data in a matter of seconds.

As for this statement:

"With a bit of responsible use of the HTC Desire i.e. not having apps constantly downloading data and not having autosync on you can still use this phone to its potential."

/facepalm

Notsram

mwille14 wrote: »

With a bit of responsible use of the HTC Desire i.e. not having apps constantly downloading data and not having autosync on you can still use this phone to its potential.

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I have to agree this sentence contradicts itself a bit. What's the point in having a phone that can do all this (and is heavily marketed by all the phone companies as such) if you can't use the features.

mwille14

What I meant to say is that you don't need it to be updating friend feeds and weather every 5 mins. Of course you still have the feature but just not constantly updating.

I am just trying to ascertain if the phone would work on this plan.

lozzaman

Also why use Opera when the built in browser is so good? OK, it uses more data as it's not compressing anything but you're getting a desktop experience, with Flash.
The phone will work with the plan and if you don't tend to browse too much when there isn't WiFi you could even have mail pushed to you (which works excellently) and weather etc updating at a reasonable rate (even every hour)

The thing that worried me was when you mentioned a couple of hours browsing each day. This depends what sort of site you look at (some pages such as Engadget are nearly 3MB to load!) and whether you tend to open loads of links without reading much of the content on the page. I'd estimate that on average each web page load is about 500KB.

I'm with T-Mobile on the 3GB FUP and I do tend to use the data rather liberally, as if it was totally unlimited. Such so that I never usually bother to turn on WiFi to use a premises free WiFi (except at home) unless the connection has dropped down to 2G.

mwille14

Contact Orange immediately and insist they move you up to the Panther bundle which has 500mb with a fair use policy

All animal plans have FUP. Does this change things?

lozzaman

I think Panther's FUP is such that they do not charge for overuse.