What data will be enough 500MB or 1GB

in_the_Cotswolds

toejumper wrote: »

Just been looking for a contract phone for dd 12th birthday, but im not sure what data will be enough for her. she would like a blackberry curve. its £15 a month for 750mins talk time and 5000 txt, and 500MB or i can pay an extra £2.50 a month for 1GB and everythings capped.
I don't think she will be a big user of the Internet on the phone, mainly wants it for the BBM.

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Thanks

To answer your question 500mb is plenty for a Blackberry. Blackberry data is compressed.

C_Mababejive

I have recently done a deal to get a new BB 3gwith GPS for £11pm with incuded txts,50 mins calls and 100mb data and a free phone on O2 and i am nowhere near using my monthly data allowance.

moneycheck

In answer to headline question 500mb is plenty for a bb.

Ref- mechanic.

toejumper

Thanks everyone for your comments, been talking to my sister and she has just ended a contract with T mobile and she now has a shiny new phone and has given dd her blackberry curve yay what a result for me. just sent for a T mobile blackberry sim, but on there web site its a bit vague on what you get with packages, i no its free internet for six months, if anyone is on any T mobile payg packages any info would be much appreciated.

chanz4

I use 100mb a month , and myn is used for business / email

timberflake

Have you considered GiffGaff? £18 a month will get you unlimited data, unlimited texts and 400 minutes. And all calls to other GiffGaff users are free, plus you get £5 of credit when you sign up.

Cash-Strapped.T32

It's easy to sound like a miserable old bu**er saying "don't trust your kid with a contract phone", and I'm sure the kindly parent feels like strangers are trying to lecture them, but honestly, how many people who give their kids a contract phone actually had a contract phone as a kid?

I did (well, actually a teenager), and even now I think it was a mistake, although luckily I managed to keep out of *too* much trouble.

Luckily, it was back in the early 2K's & mobile insurance companies took a lot more at face value because not to many parents were silly enough to let their children use a contract phone, but I managed to lose about 6 mobiles, and had to have them replaced, and I wasn't particularly irresponsible. (really!)

With the industry as it now, we'd have been investigated for insurance fraud in a flash.
Just going out with friends on busses, hanging about round town, going to school/college, etc.. is asking for it to be lost, and the better the phone, the more your mates all want to crowd round & see what it can do.

No amount of "of course mum I'll keep it in my bag & only use it when I have to" will last more than half an hour when your whole reason for living is to appear cool in your friends' eyes.
It's gonna be out all the time, with a dozen little faces pressed round it until they get bored & wander off to do something else.

And anyone who thinks their child isn't like that, wouldn't say one thing & do another just needs to consider;
The whole point of having a BB like all your friends, the entire reason for wanting to be on BBM, is to be just like your friends.
No other reason exists for anyone under 18 or outside of business wanting a Blackberry over any other kind of mobile.
Not saying it's inherently bad, just a recognition that kids will be kids.


..And we haven't even begun on the temptation to use all that "unlimited credit" that mum won't even notice going out unless she's on internet banking every day.
When your best mate says "go to such & such a page, I saw the best show on TV last night, go to youtube & lets watch it on the bus!", - how likely are you to say - "sorry, that's a full 45 minute TV programme & it'll hammer my inclusive data package, I know it says unlimited data but that only applies to browsing web pages, and not to streaming or downloading" - And how likely are you to say that at 12yrs old, or to even understand/care about the difference when your friends are all crowed round you?

Not very in my personal experience. There's a very good reason in law why as a rule you can't have a contract as a child, why the parent has to put it in their name.

Again, please don't think all these miserable old gits are coming on to try & tell you how to be a parent, but it's really, really not a good idea no matter how well intentioned the child, because real life & human nature just mess up the best laid plans & all that.
Best of luck however you go, I really do mean it.

gfplux

Last month I used mobile data on my iPhone4, sent 143mb recieved 138mb total 281mb. I have a data plan but use wifi at home.
In February I was in Spain so only used Wifi where I could (had data roaming off) and used 2.3MB SENT and 3.8MB RECIEVED TOTAL 6.1MB.