In the wake of Apple’s WWDC 2010 conference, it appears that network providers around the globe are now dropping their unlimited data packages (and not just for the iPhone). It seamed that only minutes after Steve Jobs sat down, AT&T dropped their package, and the next day @O2 did the same in the UK.
This instantly angered me and my fellow O2 iPhone friends, being limited to 500MB a month seamed painful. It got me thinking about how I use my phone, as I see myself as a relatively heavy user. I use my phone regularly to check Twitter, The Register, SlashDot, Google Blogs, Twitter Blogs, the BBC and much much more. And of course the odd bit of YouTube and WeRule (sad I know). I thought that this would surely mount up to a lot of data usage.
To my surprise I have only used 2.1GB of data since I got my iPhone (in October 2009), however the surprise was short lived. When I am at home, I have WiFi, when I am at work/the cafe/my Girlfriends/etc I have WiFi, so it all comes down the pipes rather than over the air!
So yes O2 are about to limit us, but as they say most of us won’t even notice!! My only concern is that with the incoming iPhone 4 (and iOS4 for the 3GS) some of us will start having streaming programs running in the background as we walk from A to B (listening to spotify or similar), so perhaps O2 should use a different model than just limiting us all! They say that the problem is the 1% that use crazy amounts of data, perhaps just put it in the fair use, and charge them rather than limiting us all!
