Can someone please explain data allowances

HurdyGurdy

Due to Orange (or EE) and their incompetence, my daughter has had to buy a cheap PAYG phone until EE send yet another SIM card for her iphone.

We got the cheapest that our local Tesco had in stock.

They are doing a deal where you can opt for extras when you top up £15, and she wants to go for the 500mb data. However, looking at this table
http://phone-shop.tesco.com/tesco-mobile/help-and-support/data-allowance.aspx

it doesn't make sense.

Under the 500mb column, if you visit sites such as the BBC, the 500mb plan allows 1,500.

1,500 what? Visits? Hours? Clicks?

What a stupid non-information table! Can anyone explain it please?

Timalay

HurdyGurdy wrote: »

Due to Orange (or EE) and their incompetence, my daughter has had to buy a cheap PAYG phone until EE send yet another SIM card for her iphone.

We got the cheapest that our local Tesco had in stock.

They are doing a deal where you can opt for extras when you top up £15, and she wants to go for the 500mb data. However, looking at this table
http://phone-shop.tesco.com/tesco-mobile/help-and-support/data-allowance.aspx

it doesn't make sense.

Under the 500mb column, if you visit sites such as the BBC, the 500mb plan allows 1,500.

1,500 what? Visits? Hours? Clicks?

What a stupid non-information table! Can anyone explain it please?

1,500 different web pages. Say you go to the main bbc homepage, that would count as a web page. You click a link on the page, then that counts as another page.

If your daughter wants to keep track of how much data she is using. She should download a data monitor, it tells you how much data you are using (and can reset itself at the end of the billing period.)

grumbler

My guess is 1500 web pages.

horsepills

1500 visits (or page loads to be more precise). Not that ambiguous, imho

T_T_2

Just to be clear, that table is only a reference as to how that data could be consumed. They won't actually be recording how many times a new page is visited. It's a finger in the air guide.

HurdyGurdy

Thank you.

One of those "obvious once it's pointed out to you" things

[Deleted User]

If it is an android phone then you can get apps to monitor data usage.

500mb is quite a lot if you avoid streaming video

macman

It's to assist people who don't understand MB's and how different uses consume different amounts of data.