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02-23-2009, 09:20 PM
| | CrackBerry User Device Model: 8900 Carrier: Tmobile | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Avon Lake, OH
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| |  BlackBerry Unlimited Web + 400 Messages Get unlimited Web access,
So I have been looking at Tmobile thinking about switching from Verizon for the 8900. I see they have two different blackberry plans...
BlackBerry Unlimited Web + 400 Messages
Get unlimited Web access, bundled with any 400 domestic messages.
Includes:
• Unlimited Web access
• 400 domestic text, picture, e-mail, or instant messages
and the unlimited everything (data wise).
Does the 400 message limit really count towards your BIS email? Thats kinda weird. I can see txt and picture, etc. but not email
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02-24-2009, 12:23 AM
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It does not count against email. Email is the data plan. Text plan is texting only and some instant messaging. I know that you are not charged text if you use ICQ,Yahoo and some others. There is one or two that you are charged for if you use them but I do not know what they are.
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02-24-2009, 12:28 AM
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Doesn't count against email. The 400 messages is for texts and MMS only. AIM and email doesn't use the messages.
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02-24-2009, 10:05 AM
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Cool thanks! Might have to drop Verizon for Tmobile (I could save about $20 a month!!!!)
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03-04-2009, 06:48 AM
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On the T-mobile website it states that the 400 msgs counts e-mails, IM , text , picture...it clearly says that...r u all sure that it doesnt....Iam confused...it makes sense that emails r data but read the t-mobile website
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03-04-2009, 12:37 PM
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Positive on that. Email doesn't count toward the messages.
If you want to be sure that you don't charged texts for IMing, then I suggest you get a better IM program for your berry, like BeeJive. It's much better than the built-in programs and it doesn't use text messages - data only. It works when you're on Wi-Fi too!
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03-04-2009, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Artemis68  Positive on that. Email doesn't count toward the messages. | Definitely correct. Email does not count against SMS or MMS with T-Mo. Had that exact plan until recently.
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03-18-2009, 11:35 PM
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So what is the best way to use only the Blackberry Unlimited Web ($24.99) and still be able to email & IM w/out counting against our text messaging?
Last edited by DT44; 03-18-2009 at 11:57 PM.
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03-18-2009, 11:58 PM
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IM does count against your text messages unless you use a program like BeeJive.
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03-19-2009, 12:00 AM
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I'm on that exact plan and my blackberry emails and my gmail pushed emails are not counting as texts. I haven't checked into beejive but people seem to like it.
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03-19-2009, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by BuddaBelly I'm on that exact plan and my blackberry emails and my gmail pushed emails are not counting as texts. I haven't checked into beejive but people seem to like it. | I personally use BeeJive for IM and love it.
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03-20-2009, 03:12 AM
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BlackBerry Unlimited Web + Unlimited Messages
Get unlimited communication capabilities, with unlimited Web access and domestic messages. Includes Unlimited Web access, Unlimited domestic text, picture, and instant messages, and Unlimited personal e-mail
$34.99
That is the plan I have and recommended if your use a lot of data / messages. Also with t-mobile you don't have an extra fee to use your berry as a tethered modem. Also you don't have a 5gig monthly cap to use your berry as a tethered modem.
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03-22-2009, 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by dolphinguy IM does count against your text messages unless you use a program like BeeJive. | You're incorrect. IM, which includes BBM, AIM, and Yahoo, does NOT count against your allotted text messages because it uses the unlimited data plan. I have confirmed this with TMo. In addition, my last bill did NOT reflect the THOUSANDS of IM msgs I had sent and received. Read this post: Do instant messages use data or text messages for a blackberry 8900?
Okay, I'm exaggerating with the "thousands" but I must have sent close to a thousand last month and not the 50 texts that TMo billed me for. I'm on the 400 plan.
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03-25-2009, 07:57 AM
| | CrackBerry Addict Device Model: 9700 (Bold) Carrier: T-Mobile PIN: 20F7C737 | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Everett, WA & San Antonio, TX
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I'm on a family plan with unlimited texting and I pay 20.00 for my bb plan, and yes IMing does count as texting. Emailing is through the data plan.
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03-25-2009, 10:54 PM
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If you use the im messengers that come installed on the 8900 they use data only not text . I've had tmobile and the 400 plan for years and I know for a fact that they are data only. I send and receive around 500 ims a day and only use around 30 txts a month .
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