With the latter, if I use Google Maps to help me get around when I go to the city, use the internet to look a few things up, and check my IP Cam's while I'm away, it seems like I can I can burn up my SO Data in an afternoon. $.10/MB

My employer, on the same network, pays $.01/MB to Rogers.

If you use a satellite, you pay $6.90/GB (Xplornet residential rates). On the SO network, I think that same data equates to $100.00/GB. One would think that it costs the provider a lot more to send data via a satellite than a cell tower, so why is does it cost almost 15 times more to use your phone for data than a satellite?

Of course not all Sat Data is so economical. I just acquired and InReach device. On that it costs about $.80 cents to send or receive a 160 character text message.

If your data use goes up, then Koodoo's plan is the way to go as their data charge is one third that of Speakout's.

For my useage, data and voice calls end up being cheaper by just a few bucks each month to go with Koodo compared to SpeakOut, but not amazingly so. We still have our "extra" family cell phone set up on SO.

Update: The pattern continues: Fido has detailed usage tracking down to the Kbyte, and it shows about 90% of what Android usage tracking shows on the phone. This is just for typical casual usage: walking around with with background data enabled on the phone, receiving and sending emails, browsing a few web pages. For the same pattern of use, Speakout shows about 30% of what Android usage tracking shows.

MegaSilver said:

Well, my billed data usage is increasing recently. Used to be massivley under recorded, now only slightly.

Running out of funds, but can't find a cheaper alternative. I'll probobly top up next month.

Only thing I wish SO had was short codes.

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I too came to the forums looking to see if others experiences the same increased data billing. I did not have a reason to consider Wind before but i'm afraid its come to that now.

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Same here.

Well, my billed data usage is increasing recently. Used to be massivley under recorded, now only slightly.

Running out of funds, but can't find a cheaper alternative. I'll probobly top up next month.

Only thing I wish SO had was short codes.

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I too came to the forums looking to see if others experiences the same increased data billing. I did not have a reason to consider Wind before but i'm afraid its come to that now.

Apparently, they just stopped offering what I really wanted - pay-as-I-go data, about 3-4 months ago.

I have it now. It's awsome. The coverage is not, the call quality is so so, but I can't complain with unlimited incoming and data priced at 1c/10kb. Using opera mini, if I need to check something small like movie times, it only costs me 10-15c which is well worth the expense and if you go over $2 in usage in a day of anything, EVERYTHING is unlimited till 12am. This includes data.

So theoretically, I could use 5gb (of the allotted 'fair usage policy' data allowed per month) in a day for only $2 ( but the rest of the month would have really throttled data)

It's the best plan ever. With SO I would spend about $50/year, and on Wind I only spend $30, but use it 10x as much.

So if I was stuck with SO still, but using it like I do with Wind now, I would be spending $500/year.

My only regret is not buying a ton of the Prepaid plans and auctioning them off.

Running out of funds, but can't find a cheaper alternative. I'll probobly top up next month.

Only thing I wish SO had was short codes.

That $100.00 data plan sounds attractive. Hopefully more providers will start to roll out similar plans as incentives to attract a user base.

You all wrong. with tbaytel, we only use data+fongo. it is $100 for one year. I'm very satisfied with fongo.

Just so you know, the SIM card is $25. There may also be a disconnect fee, but I don't remember if that was for Wind or Rogers.

http://www.tbaytel.net/persona.....leinternet

I am not sure of any dis/advantage yet, other than being out of their local area and struggling to find a way to do their credit check. It doesn't look cheap and they want you to go into their dealer locations.

1¢/200KB is their standard "no plan" rate, which is 200MB for $10, but it looks like this is billed in chunks of 200kB - making it a pay-as-you-go data system. For those months when I have only used 20MB, I would only be paying $1 .

They only have "one-time" data add-ons with capacity of up to 20GB for $100, which if I am reading things correct, would expire after 365 days for "pay-by-the-minute" people, which comes out to 2GB for $10, and their data seems to be available throughout the Rogers network nationally.

All is not perfect though - calls outside of Thunder Bay Ontario seem to be non-local and are charged double the $0.20/min of local calls, and when "roaming" away from Thunder Bay all incoming calls are also at $0.40/min.

If I were living in TBay, it does look like good competition to SO.

http://forums.redflagdeals.com.....y-1397855/

http://windmobile.ca/plans-and.....et-Plan-15