Blackberry Monthly Sim Only Plans

[banier]

I have an unlocked Blackberry 9700 and initially bought a PAYG 2G sim from '3' when arriving in HK. Now I wish to use some data and thought it would be best to sign up to a sim only contract. However when visiting a 3 Shop they showed me their Blackberry Monthly Plans which are extortionately expensive in comparison to other sim-only plans (e.g. £398 for unlimited email data plan). The guy said it was because Blackberrys used different data formats or something and that why it's expensive.

Am I being thrown a curve ball here?

[wtbhotia]

Smartone is the same, if you want to use Blackberry you need to get a separate package, I have an unlimited data sim card from smartone and assumed it would work if I get a blackberry and just inserted it in, tried and failed, could only dial in and out, walked to the smartone shop across from the fortress that I bought the blackberry, they said need to buy different package, went back to fortress and exchanged the phone for a SII

3 is not throwing you a curve ball.

[pin]

No.

10 characters, etc.

[S20121130]

one2free offers a weekly, or month Blackberry Tariff on Pay as you go. Get a one2free sim card, costs 460HKD a month for BIS SERVICE... they are the ONLY carrier to offer NON CONTRACT BB BIS in HK.

its either them or nothing...

[blueagle]

If you're going to use your Blackberry just for emails, BBM and browsing, Facebook etc.. then you don't need unlimited data. Remember Blackberry's network compresses all the data traffic by at least 5 times, so if you'll upload a 5MB sized image on Facebook it'll only use 1MB from your data plan. You need Blackberry specific data plan and that's the reason a lot of service providers take Blackberry users for a ride.

[virago]

Yes PCCW was the same and similar prices.

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