Comments on: How to get free iPhone data on a Vodafone plan

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:21:53 +0000

http://store.vodafone.com.au/mobile-phones-apple-iphone-3g-8gb-iphone-plans-69-vodafone-cap-contract-for-apple-iphone-3g.aspx

head to the link, click on “full detail” on the right hand side and scroll down to where it says “Great services included in $69 Vodafone Cap for Apple® iPhone™ 3G 24 month Contract:”

under this heading it states – “Excess Data Charges 12c per MB, billed per KB with minimum session of 50kb”

now if voda arent gonna honour the excess being billed to your cap, they might wanna think bout changing their website.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:14:45 +0000

"The question to Vodafone, therefore, should be why they're charging significantly more for data usage when the device on the end of the pipe happens to be an iPhone"

And the answer is, because people who can afford to waste money on an iPhone can also afford to pay Vodafone a stackload of money for using it, so that's what Vodafone will charge them

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:52:43 +0000

The question to Vodafone, therefore, should be why they're charging significantly more for data usage when the device on the end of the pipe happens to be an iPhone (or any other kind of phone), as opposed to a laptop computer. The only explanation that comes to my mind is "price gouging".

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:12:11 +0000

Unfortunately, the terms and conditions state that excess data is excluded from the cap amount – and therefore charged extra.

By: David

David — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:08:42 +0000

Went to my local Vodafone store, asked the guys about this. They all shook their heads. iPhone plans are different to all the others and you can't use call credits to pay for excess data charges.

Pity, would have signed up on the spot. I told them when they fix their plans I'll sign up and then promptly walked out.

By: stu

stu — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:40:29 +0000

I really wish this was true

By: Angus Kidman

Angus Kidman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:15:47 +0000

Here’s the full terms and conditions document:
http://www.vodafone.com.au/stelprd/groups/webcontent/documents/webcontent/dev_005861.pdf

By: John

John — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:05:04 +0000

So if this is true, am I calculating correctly that you can get over 2.5GB of data on a $69 cap? ($310 “voice credit per month” / 0.12 per MB = 2583MB?

If this is true, I’m going Vodafone. But I’m not convinced and I would like to get this nailed before I go in to a shop.

Here are some Vodafone terms and conditions on the web:

http://www.vodafone.com.au/personal/plans/termsandconditions/index.htm

I can’t see where it says you can convert your voice credit to data credit?

I’ll be checking back here regularly…