Canadian iPhone User - iPhoneUser.ca

No, I wasn't charged for using the $7 plan or or mistakenly charged for overage on my 4 months on unlimited browsing on the $18 value pack from Fido. I posted a little while ago about being careful with edge settings. On my wife's iPhone, I entered the edge settings to test to see if the network was down because I couldn't get edge on my iPhone. I was worried because I had just upgraded to 1.1.4 and re-unlocked with Ziphone. After realizing that it was in fact a network problem and not a Ziphone problem, I manually deleted the edge settings in her iPhone. She only uses wifi to check her email and stuff.

The next day, she went back into her email to read some stuff over again, to her surprise, it downloaded a bunch of new messages. The total amount of data used was 546kb. I hoped that we wouldn't get charged but I figured we probably would. Well the bill came and the charge was there. 546kb X 5 cents/kb = $27.30. Kind of expensive for receiving a few emails.

The iPhone can burn through data pretty fast. Good thing I paid extra towards my bill last month. We were charged for this data because there is no data plan on that iPhone. I reset the network settings on the phone to properly remove the edge settings. Fido collected almost the exact amount of data usuage that the iPhone did. Using an iPhone in Canada can get pretty expensive if you aren't careful. If you use a bit of discretion, using the iPhone will bring you great pleasure.