BIS Price global comparison

[calvincoetzee]

Was looking at the price of BIS overseas and I noted that they all have fixed data bundles ranging from as small as 10Mb to 1Gb.

Hence my question being, are we lucky enough to be on Vodacom/MTN where they offer unlimited data usage through BIS?

 

[syntax]

Was looking at the price of BIS overseas and I noted that they all have fixed data bundles ranging from as small as 10Mb to 1Gb.

Hence my question being, are we lucky enough to be on Vodacom/MTN where they offer unlimited data usage through BIS?

No, because vodacoms BIS doesnt work...

 

[CranialBlaze]

No, because vodacoms BIS doesnt work...

Speak for yourself, i have a dozens friends on Vodacom all with BIS and other than that big drop a little while back its been problem free. We slowly but surely getting all our friends to change with thier upgrades, would nto be doing that if it was ****, maybe BIS just works better in the cape.

 

[syntax]

Speak for yourself, i have a dozens friends on Vodacom all with BIS and other than that big drop a little while back its been problem free. We slowly but surely getting all our friends to change with thier upgrades, would nto be doing that if it was ****, maybe BIS just works better in the cape.

Maybe its just jozi then, there are threads on here with a decent amount of ppl who are having issues with BIS.

Myself and all my friends have issues daily. I am talking like an hour or two a day it doesnt work

 

[Gamer]

Can't we keep the whining about BIS not working (for some users) to all those other threads please?

On topic:
Yeah, it looks like we are lucky to get unlimited, let's hope it stays that way!

 

[CranialBlaze]

Can't we keep the whining about BIS not working (for some users) to all those other threads please?

On topic:
Yeah, it looks like we are lucky to get unlimited, let's hope it stays that way!

Its not actualyl truely unlimited, vodacom does have a 1GB soft-cap on BIS, not sure what happens after then but i would be impressed to see anyone hit that threshold on his handset. The most i have done was about 150mb and that was the month i got my new phone had to download a lot of the apps again.

 

[TFTC]

Its not actualyl truely unlimited, vodacom does have a 1GB soft-cap on BIS, not sure what happens after then but i would be impressed to see anyone hit that threshold on his handset. The most i have done was about 150mb and that was the month i got my new phone had to download a lot of the apps again.

I have a BB 8520 without 3G but when I was downloading some music from my SkyDrive account I had an average speed of 25kb/s and I managed to hit the 180MB mark in one day (I have the Mobile Data Alert app which tells me my daily BIS data usage). Since I use an average of 30mb per day im sure that the 1GB capcan be easily breached, especially with 3G handsets that can stream via tunewiki

 

[CranialBlaze]

I have a BB 8520 without 3G but when I was downloading some music from my SkyDrive account I had an average speed of 25kb/s and I managed to hit the 180MB mark in one day (I have the Mobile Data Alert app which tells me my daily BIS data usage). Since I use an average of 30mb per day im sure that the 1GB capcan be easily breached, especially with 3G handsets that can stream via tunewiki

Read the T&C all streaming media will be charged for @ standard data rates, you may be easily be able to easily hit 1GB but your going to be paying for much of it you sit streaming. The BIS service itself does not support streaming so all streaming media jumps onto internet. I tested it myself i was on Talk 120 and had them remove the internet apn and tunewiki as well as youtube site and another youtube player for BB would not work, gave an error a few seconds into attempting to buffer.

When i upgraded to a storm2 i went topup 315 and had them put internet back on and now it all works but i am paying for it.

 

[Dolby]

I'd go with taulz on this one I'm not going to whine - but state facts.

They probably have a near 100 percent HSDPA signal while we have a GPRS signal 50% of the time, a 3G signal 30% of the time and its dead the rest of the time

I think maybe Vodacom is cutting corners by offering unlimited - but I'd gladly pay for fixed data if meant a stable, reasonably quick line

I'd love to have the Blackbery experience!.

 

[FHTheron]

I've been on MTN BIS for a month now and no issues so far, works quite well really.

I noticed in Jersey Island (Channel Islands) you have a 6MB limit. I hope that was a typo on the carrier's site - it's mainly a business oriented island so I would think a few Blackberries are in use.

After thought: I have a 3G capable Blackberry but set it to EDGE only since we don't really get proper 3G in Pretoria or Centurion. At least not my home and office.

 

[CranialBlaze]

I've been on MTN BIS for a month now and no issues so far, works quite well really.

I noticed in Jersey Island (Channel Islands) you have a 6MB limit. I hope that was a typo on the carrier's site - it's mainly a business oriented island so I would think a few Blackberries are in use.

After thought: I have a 3G capable Blackberry but set it to EDGE only since we don't really get proper 3G in Pretoria or Centurion. At least not my home and office.

Thats also a good point, i leave mine set to 2G more to save battery as 3G does really damage battery life especially if you do not really need it.

 

[calvincoetzee]

I've only had my BlackBerry for two days now, and I'm really impressed. For a phone that cost R1999 from vodacom, it is much much much better than my top end Nokia phone from 18 months ago.
Anyway, BIS seems relatively stable for me (PTA). Service has not gone down for longer than a couple minutes at most so far, but I guess I'll have to see how it fares in the days to come.

As for soft caps, 1Gb is more than enough, it may not suite a very heavy user but we are paying R59 for the service.

Thanks for all the replies