För ditt användande som inte gäller webbläsaren så behåller du samma maxtaxa som för rörig avgift
The above quote is from Telia Sonera’s price
information page regarding mobile data traffic. In English it roughly translates to “For usage not including web browsing you will keep the same maximum fee as the messy fee.” It’s an obvious spelling error, but nevertheless fairly well summarizes my thoughts of the different iPhone 3G data subscription plans in Sweden.
In the Nordic countries the iPhone 3G is being sold by Telia. Yesterday the
different subscription levels were announced and they are far from easy to understand.
There will be three basic subscriptions introduced with the iPhone 3G in the Nordic countries: iMini, iMidi and iMaxi. Each subscription has a monthly call, SMS and bandwidth limit, where iMini only allows up to 100Mb of data traffic each month before it begins to cost some serious money. With typical web sites exceeding 2Mb in size, 100Mb is definitely not much.
Once those 100 Mb are depleted, each additional Mb will cost 20 SEK (~$3.3). And now it gets interesting.
- There’s a daily max cost of 9 SEK ($1.5) each day for surfing. This means that even if you surf the web for several hours and hundreds of Mb, you will still pay at most 9 SEK for that day.
- However,
there’s
another
daily max cost of data traffic that is not web related of 69 SEK each day ($11.5. This includes all data traffic that’s not web surfing, such as games, email, podcasts, streaming video etc.
What does this mean? It basically means that if you accidentally “burn” your 100 Mb the first day by surfing around a bit, you will have to pay 9 SEK per day even if you just surf 500kb of data. This means that your monthly cost will increase by approximately 279 SEK (~$46.5) if you surf the web daily on the iPhone and have the iMini subscription.
Also, if you plan to view some movies over the Internet with the iPhone you could very easily end up with costs exceeding 2000 SEK (~$333) for a month, even if you purchased the phone with one of the above three subscriptions.
To complicate things even further, it’s possible to purchase the iPhone with another subscription that is not iMini, iMidi, and iMaxi, that does not include any data traffic at all. And you can then couple the subscription with a mobile data subscription for the usual 199 SEK per month (~$33).
I will do my best to be first in queue on July 11, because I have a strong feeling that trying to explain all these subscription options to the typical customer will take time. Lots of it.
