Hi guys...I'm a Maxis iValue 100 subscriber and my contract will end this weekend and I'm happy enough to jump ship to DIGI when the time arrived. I'm desperately need to jump because for the past year I'd paid the RM100++ for nothing but some RM20++ worth of phone calls because there is no 3G coverage at my house / residential area. (I'm not from kampung tho but I stay in Taman Sri Nibong which is a stone throw away from QBM which is the biggest shopping mall in Penang!!! The situation never change even after complaints).

So I try to find a suitable plan for my future iphone usage; as u know I'll only spend around 20++ only on phone call every month so I can easily get any prepaid other than Maxis which after some surfing around the net I decided that digi prepaid will be the best choice. I bought a prepaid to try out the 3g coverage and it's good and quite wide coverage with only the cons is the speed can't match the maxis one. I don't mind at all coz what I need is coverage not speed. The digi even come in RM5 maximum per day charge on data usage which is sweet coz I can even do a tether on my pc when the ever unreliable P1 Wimax (which is next on my list to get rid of!!!) failed.

After 3 days of testing my nightmare begins : you know why?
Because I got charge RM5 for the last 3 days and only the 1st day I really use the data that much and after some finding I discovered that it's not Digi's fault....it's because iPhone will consume data even in standby mode when you are not launching any apps...as you may know the mail and safari apps are not kill able. In 5 to 6 hours time it's enough to consume 500KB which had let to RM5 charges on the data...and that means by doing nothing you'll have o pay RM 150 for a prepaid plan which don't even include the voice call!!! I'd try to turn off the data and even try to plug in the power (then the wifi will always ON) but it will still consume data on the iphone. The turn off data work out to be the best bet but by turning off the data you lost all the Push capability which will render your iPhone useless anyway...

Does it meant if you want to use iPhone you have to subscribe to those expensive data plan even in reality you don't even wanna use them that much coz wifi is ubiquitous nowadays. I'm puzzled and confused now coz there is no telco offering you mid range data plan in any kind of form. It's either 100KB or 3GB for u!
Hope that somebody with greater knowledge can give me some advice.

Thanks....will check om the package later and seems like this is the best bet for now....
Problem is RM68 is still out of my desired spending for monthly telco fees..



Thanks bro I actually using a jb iphone and sbsetting to turn off the data d but somehow while I'd scarifiedthe push capabilities I still got charged on the data....

Actually I do need data but on an amount of around 100MB per month and the problem is no telco offering this data package that suite me...it's either on RM50-RM100 unlimited package or I have to pay those insanely expensive pay per use data at 10sen/10kb.
Anyway just found out that maxis hotlink do provide this package till June so I'll just use it first and see what other telco will offer in the future.

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This post has been edited by muman7: Apr 29 2010, 01:16 AM

I have similar problems and at last I realize that iPhone is like a "high class pet"...if u wanna use it to the fullest you gotta spent on the "food" (chain costs)...what's the point that if turning data off is worked but you lost those push capability and the luxurious of internet on your finger tips? I myself after wasting some hard earned money on those ridiculously expensive pay per used data....manage to find 2 solutions:
1. If you're on hotlink : there is a bi-week data package 100MB on RM18 which will cost you RM36 monthly. (Offers end on June....hope they'll extend it or come out wit better one then)
2. If you're on DIGI : go for the smart plan which will cost you RM58 monthly on unlimited data.
My 2 cents...

This post has been edited by muman7: Apr 29 2010, 10:59 PM