International BB plan

[trimiton]

I talked to T Mobile today and they have changed the pricing for the International BB plan. Now you can't get the 19.99 int plan for data unless you use a tmo.blackberry.net address. If you want to use your own email address you will pay normal roaming charges of $15 per MB.

has anybody come across this?
i travel alot to europe and other countries and in my mind this defeats the purpose of owning the blackberry device.

[Artemis68]

I believe you can still use your other email addresses provided that they are set up for your BB through BIS.

You're right though, it's still BS. T-Mobile needs to come up with an international data plan. On the current plan, it's email only (no attachments) and NO other sorts of data. It stinks.

I have no idea why T-Mobile doesn't offer a plan like this to its customers.

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[Splitz]

The emails do NOT INCLUDE ATTACHMENTS. If you get an attachment it is $15/MB

You can use either address...insure that you turn OFF HTML email, and receive it as text only.

Ask me how I know.....

[cdicesare2002]

Thats really stupid. I mean what would be the point of having an international plan then? Think wifi would still work?

[Splitz]

Originally Posted by cdicesare2002

Thats really stupid. I mean what would be the point of having an international plan then? Think wifi would still work?

Yes, WiFi will always work, but in my experience in traveling internationally, WiFi is hit or miss if you can find a "free" hotspot or open connection.

[cdicesare2002]

When I was in Germany (my Pre-Berry days) I used my laptop at every tea or coffee shop haha but your right it is hit or miss.

T-Mobile needs to fix the international plan then.

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[trimiton]

you are correct in saying it is hit or miss with the wifi.
most hotels offer wifi, for a price!! most signals when walking around are secured and open wifi will direct you to a swiss comm or other internet provider login service for a price!!
i have been in some hotels and they charge 15 euros for an hour of internet connectivity.
to beat the wifi connectivity i would tether. i suppose this will now be a costly thing to do since this would be considered data correct?

[wolfiea]

When did they make this change?

[eluth]

Originally Posted by trimiton

I talked to T Mobile today and they have changed the pricing for the International BB plan. Now you can't get the 19.99 int plan for data unless you use a tmo.blackberry.net address. If you want to use your own email address you will pay normal roaming charges of $15 per MB.

has anybody come across this?
i travel alot to europe and other countries and in my mind this defeats the purpose of owning the blackberry device.

This sound somewhat inexact to me. Here is my experience last December while travelling internationally, with the Blackberry Unlimited International Email plan:

1. set my default Blackberry Browser to the Hotspot browser,
2. turned on the firewall on the BB and asked all 3rd parties applications to prompt me before accessing Internet (it's in the Options / Applications / Edit Permission section),
3. unfortunately this does not work for RIM applications (add-on or core), so I removed the logging credentials for Facebook and disabled auto-logon for Yahoo, MSN, AOL messengers.
4. The only application I did uninstall was Blackberry Messenger (just to be safe),
5. I made sure I did not have an application running in the background that could consume data and ran MiniMoni just to be aware of what was going on.

While roaming on foreign networks (this was NOT on Wifi),

1. I used email on all accounts setup on BIS, not just the xxx (at) tmo.blackberry.net.
2. I used HTML email and sometimes did a "Get Images".
3. I did download some attachments to these emails (like 700 Kb PDF).
4. I did send some email from my BIS managed account with attachments (pictures)
5. I was very carefully NOT to click on any link in these emails, so I don't browse the internet

This was from mid-Dec 2009 to mid-Jan 2010 and I got my bill for this.
All the tasks above did get metered as RIM Blackberr (I consumed around 7MB) did not get charged.

In addition, I did a small test using the WAP browser. This got effectively charged as Internet Acce and I got billed for it at $15/MB rate, which was normal.

I hope this helps.
Has anyone an experience of been changed for the RIM Blackberr category? Outside of email, how can I know for sure which application are using the RIM Blackberr service instead of the carrier's internet access?