How will this data bill?
I had a customer who hacked his E815 and enabled the phone for full OBEX. He used this to connect to the internet with his laptop. He was acheiving speeds of about 120k. I pulled up his account and didn't see any kilobytes being used yet. Will this use kilobytes or will it use airtime? If he had a data plan would it enable for unlimited use? I contacted data tech support and they said that since this feature is disabled by VZW that they have no idea how it will bill out. I am sure someone that reads on here has experienced this situation. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
In the mean time I advised the customer to just wait and see how that time would be billed and not to go happy with that feature.
Thanks again.
In the mean time I advised the customer to just wait and see how that time would be billed and not to go happy with that feature.
Thanks again.
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One, he might lose his service for doing that to his phone. Two, it probably used his minutes on the phone, depending what time he used the phone as a modem. I wouldn't be surprised if his bill looks horrible, but then again you never really know till you see it.
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this is just hearsay, but I overheard it will use minutes, not data (treats the connection like a dial-up phone call)
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That's what I'm assuming as well. It'd be like using mobile web without a data plan.
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Correct. The data plan or at least the pay as you go option for $.015/KBU would have to be on the account as a feature to be able to bill KBU for that usage. Without those features, you are correct, it will be treated just like a regular dialup call, just like the mobile web. I would be wary of using too much, though.
I know some people in here have called BS on it, but VZW is very serious about people exploiting the EVDO service for something other than its intended purpose. Their nascent tracking methods may not catch any but the really dumb users, but this system will be greatly improved and more rapidly as EVDO service expands.
You may be getting away with it now, but I would watch it if I were you, because the last thing y...
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I know some people in here have called BS on it, but VZW is very serious about people exploiting the EVDO service for something other than its intended purpose. Their nascent tracking methods may not catch any but the really dumb users, but this system will be greatly improved and more rapidly as EVDO service expands.
You may be getting away with it now, but I would watch it if I were you, because the last thing y...
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crazyeaglefan236 said:...
I had a customer who hacked his E815 and enabled the phone for full OBEX. He used this to connect to the internet with his laptop. He was acheiving speeds of about 120k. I pulled up his account and didn't see any kilobytes being used yet. Will this use kilobytes or will it use airtime? If he had a data plan would it enable for unlimited use? I contacted data tech support and they said that since this feature is disabled by VZW that they have no idea how it will bill out. I am sure someone that reads on here has experienced this situation. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
In the mean time I advised the customer to just wait and see how that time would be billed and not to go happy wi
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If the phones hacked then it uses minutes. The actual hack is changing what is set-up by default. [email protected] to [email protected]. The "DUN" is data usage to the billing system. w/out that your home free. The billing system will just think it's mobile web.
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toolfreek said:
If the phones hacked then it uses minutes. The actual hack is changing what is set-up by default. [email protected] to [email protected]. The "DUN" is data usage to the billing system. w/out that your home free. The billing system will just think it's mobile web.
What do you mean??? If one dials into [email protected], VZW has no idea you are using DUN? Even with the excessive data usage? Somehow, I think they would figure it out eventually.
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