New BlackBerry plans actually strip away more features than first thought

IMHO Blackberry Protect should be a standard feature on all their plans and this sends out a bad message that they don't want users to be protected. It would've made more sense if the BP service was an an additional premium service that all users had to pay however that is not the case.

What do you guys think?
 
I'm disappointed by those limitations. I actually was going to go for the Blackberry on a lower-priced plan, but it's a little too restrictive. As soon as one departs from the 'all you can eat' benefit, the handset options are much wider than just BB.
 
One of the beauties of the Blackberry environ was... one product, one tariff. In our market R60/month is nothing. They should have left it like that!
 
My understanding was that chat forms part of social forums. Why are they excluded? This is just a gimmic to hook customers into buying packages that they do not need.
 
Yuu said:
IMHO Blackberry Protect should be a standard feature on all their plans and this sends out a bad message that they don't want users to be protected. It would've made more sense if the BP service was an an additional premium service that all users had to pay however that is not the case.

What do you guys think?
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BGE said:
One of the beauties of the Blackberry environ was... one product, one tariff. In our market R60/month is nothing. They should have left it like that!
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that option is still available... the other options are for people that are not interested in paying for the full service.

I can sort of see those features working if they ever allow other devices. I bet a lot of people will go for BBM + email on their data hungry smart phones.

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Yuu said:
IMHO Blackberry Protect should be a standard feature on all their plans and this sends out a bad message that they don't want users to be protected. It would've made more sense if the BP service was an an additional premium service that all users had to pay however that is not the case.

What do you guys think?
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I do agree.. but if you consider my comment above that they could eventually offer these packages on non BB devices then BB protect would be too complicated to implement for all devices.
 
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BGE said:
One of the beauties of the Blackberry environ was... one product, one tariff. In our market R60/month is nothing. They should have left it like that!
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Yes, and if you're still willing to pay R60 you still get the full BIS package. Right? How does it bother anyone if people want to pay less and lose features they don't need or want? What am I missing? What's the problem?
 
I have the 8ta social and email plan and I still get my 500MB additional data bundle every month. That I can use whenever 8ta decides not to have a shitty network.
 
Yuu said:
IMHO Blackberry Protect should be a standard feature on all their plans and this sends out a bad message that they don't want users to be protected. It would've made more sense if the BP service was an an additional premium service that all users had to pay however that is not the case.

What do you guys think?
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I agree BB protect should be available on all plans, but i guess you get what you pay for.
 
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