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iPhone 3G: My home network wifi is costing me..?

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NewIphone

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Jan 20, 2009
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Hi,

So I have a new iPhone 3G. Im in the UK and I bought a pay as you go iPhone and have put a contract sim card in the phone (the phone is NOT unlocked or jailbroken). I have already disabled 3G and data roaming in the settings.

I do not have free internet on my contract so whenever I go to the net it charges me.

I have been using my home and university network wifi and this is supposed to be free right? But I am still being charged from what I can see is most if not all of the time when I go online on my iPhone 3G.

Please help.

Thanks.
 
NewIphone said:
Hi,

So I have a new iPhone 3G. Im in the UK and I bought a pay as you go iPhone and have put a contract sim card in the phone (the phone is NOT unlocked or jailbroken). I have already disabled 3G and data roaming in the settings.

I do not have free internet on my contract so whenever I go to the net it charges me.

I have been using my home and university network wifi and this is supposed to be free right? But I am still being charged from what I can see is most if not all of the time when I go online on my iPhone 3G.

Please help.

Thanks.
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Why buy a PAYG iPhone 3G and then use an O2 contract SIM? Surely you'd have saved money by buying it on contract/upgrading to it on your existing contract? :confused:

Anyway, you need to disable cellular data: Settings - General - Network - Cellular Data Network - then change the APN. Easiest just to add a couple of dots after it, then it's easy to set it back if you need to in the future.

PS you don't need to disable 3G.
 
drlunanerd said:
Why buy a PAYG iPhone 3G and then use an O2 contract SIM? Surely you'd have saved money by buying it on contract/upgrading to it on your existing contract? :confused:

Anyway, you need to disable cellular data: Settings - General - Network - Cellular Data Network - then change the APN. Easiest just to add a couple of dots after it, then it's easy to set it back if you need to in the future.

PS you don't need to disable 3G.
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Thanks for the info.

As for why I didn't get the iPhone on contract is because I just got the HTC Touch HD on contract for £30 a month. I then sold the HTC Touch HD on eBay for £490. The total cost of the 18month contract I just took out is 30*18 = 540 - 490 = £50.

So I get 1200mins and 500texts for £50 i.e. 50/18 = £2.70 a month.

Then I just an iPhone 3G for £340 from Apple. So total cost of iPhone + contract = £390.

That is at least £300-£400 cheaper then the cheapest iPhone contract :)

Thanks again for the info ill try it out now :)
 
NewIphone said:
Thanks again for the info ill try it out now :)
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No problem :cool:
It's really handy having mobile internet access, certainly one of the selling points of having an iPhone. However if you can live without it then great. I think you can always add it as a bolt-on.
 
drlunanerd said:
No problem :cool:
It's really handy having mobile internet access, certainly one of the selling points of having an iPhone. However if you can live without it then great. I think you can always add it as a bolt-on.
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Well I tried it and it works :D

As for mobile internet access, most of the time I will either be at home or at uni and both places have wifi access so mobile net isnt a must for me. As you mentioned there is a bolt on for unlimited mobile net access and thats an extra £7.50 a month.

As for now im happy with my free wifi being free :cool:
 
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