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30 July 2011

How accurate is your mobile data bill?

Calling all iPhone users! Iphone

The iPhone is known to be relatively greedy when it comes to mobile data usage (I've heard some people saying thath iPhone users use as much as twice the data that a Blackberry user does).  I'm sure that you, like me, are delighted to see mobile data charges coming down, but how sure are you that Vodacom, MTN, CellC or 8.ta are billing you correctly?

The other day, I came across Onavo and installed it on my phone.  It appears to be saving my lots of bandwidth, but then I noticed that it reports me using a LOT less 3G bandwdith in total than Vodacom is billing me for.  I proceeded to download a free app called Dataman and to reset the Data Usage counters on the iPhone's Settings (under General>Usage).

Tomorrow night I'll be resetting all three counters on my phone and will be comparing those with Vodacom's bill at the end of August.

 I'd love to have some other data to compare to, so won't you at least reset the iPhone counter and consider installing Dataman for a month?

I'll publicise anonymised results here in a post.

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DaveG

'ullo, 'ullo, 'ullo!
Maybe I should get a bit more proactive about this...
"Class Claims AT&T Rigs Bills for iPhones"
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/01/31/33742.htm

Posted by: DaveG | 01 November 2011 at 08:59 AM

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