'Unlimited' data comes from the same kind of people who sell you 500 gigabyte hard drives with only 460 gigabytes of usable space. Someone needs a successful lawsuit against this stuff as an example to other marketing idiots.
Having said that, you'd know the data limit if you had read the terms and conditions of the contract, which is always a good thing to do really. So both parties are to blame.
Blame the Microsoft NTFS file system. There's a reason we techies have dubbed it "Never The Fooking Same" To calculate what you will end up with you need to take away 7%. So 250, becomes 232, etc etc.
On topic, yes this pisses me off to no end. 500mb on our phone is a drop in the ocean. I'm not halfway through the month and I've just over 100mb left of usage. Orange are charging 60p per DAY with a "fair use" of 25mb. That's is absolutely pathetic. I don't think they should be able to decide what's fair. We should. And on a very internet aware phone anything short of 5GB isn't fair.
But, then again. You'd never go over. So you'd never pay extortionate prices for your data. This is why some phone companies discourage you from using WiFi, because you're not paying them for data. Which, again, shouldn't be in their hands.
How about we all write to Ofcom?
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