Virgin Mobile - I'm a bit worried!

gavvallance

Hi,
I am a mobile phone novice who usually sticks with pay as you go on horrible old phones but as a virgin media customer, decided to go for the 10.21 p/m blackberry contract as I will be working away a lot and it will make it possible to call the wife everyday (aah ) and I have a phone that people won't take the mick out of!
so what I have is:

Virgin BlackBerry £10.21
1GB Mobile Web
Unlimited minutes to other virgin mobiles
250 texts
50 minutes

What worries me is the phone turns up, asks me for an email address, next thing I know its getting emails for me, looks brill - but I don't really understand what I am likely to get charged for?!?
I mean, every time I open one of those emails or every time the blackberry go checking for an email is it eating into my bill?
If I browse the web will it start on virgin mobile web or will it connect to a wireless network if there was one ie in mcdonalds.

also I tried to connect to my home virgin wireless broadband with the blackberry, and it gave me a number to put in to the router - how do you put numbers into a router - it hasn't got a key board!:D

sorry for the lack of info/knowledge.....help!

Jon_01

The whole point of Blackberry is it get your email right away, no waiting (isn't tech great!).

The internet addon you have on your acc (should be listed as BIS) will carry all your data with room to spare. The Blackberry and its server compress everything, you'd have to be sending telephone books worth of data every day to get anywhere near its limit...

So, don't worry, you'll be fine

hansi

gavvallance wrote: »

Hi,
I am a mobile phone novice who usually sticks with pay as you go on horrible old phones but as a virgin media customer, decided to go for the 10.21 p/m blackberry contract as I will be working away a lot and it will make it possible to call the wife everyday (aah ) and I have a phone that people won't take the mick out of!
so what I have is:

Virgin BlackBerry £10.21
1GB Mobile Web
Unlimited minutes to other virgin mobiles
250 texts
50 minutes

What worries me is the phone turns up, asks me for an email address, next thing I know its getting emails for me, looks brill - but I don't really understand what I am likely to get charged for?!?
I mean, every time I open one of those emails or every time the blackberry go checking for an email is it eating into my bill?
If I browse the web will it start on virgin mobile web or will it connect to a wireless network if there was one ie in mcdonalds.

also I tried to connect to my home virgin wireless broadband with the blackberry, and it gave me a number to put in to the router - how do you put numbers into a router - it hasn't got a key board!:D

sorry for the lack of info/knowledge.....help!

I have almost exactly the same deal as you as a replacement for my PAYG phone except that the guy in the Virgin shop put me off the Blackberry and offered me the Sony Ericsson X8 and I have the same deal as you except I get 500mb Web use. However, it has some great free apps including a really good battery saver which switches between mobile internet and wireless automatically, and shuts down background programmes to save the battery, as it drains quite quickly.