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Iphone and Complete-M in Germany

I have an Iphone with an edge data flat and a 300mb limited HSDPA plan. As a curious guy I want to know how much I have used of those 300mb HSDPA. Calling T-Mobile for 3 times results in three different opinions:

  1. Callcenter person 1: I should wait for the next month, then I will see the usage in my T-Mobile account (One month later I see nothing)
  2. Callcenter person 2: I can’t look online but I should call the call center to ask, they will tell me (and the employee told me my usage, 41mb of 300mb back then)
  3. Callcenter person 3: No one knows how much I’ve used. They can’t see it in their computer (I wonder how the second one could know) and it’s not possible for me to see my usage

Isn’t that funny? I have a limited data plan, but they can’t tell me and I can’t see my usage? They are able to monitor all my calls and monitor all my usage and tell (on demand ;-) the police, but they can’t tell me how much I’ve used? They can limit my flat rate to EDGE after 300mb, but they can’t tell me how much I’ve used already? And I can’t see?

I’ll call tomorrow for a fourth opinion ;-)

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About the author: Stephan Schmidt is head of development at brands4friends. He has more than 15 years of internet technology experience and 10 years experience in agile. He was head of development, consultant and CTO and is a speaker, author and blog writer. He specializes in organizing and optimizing software development helping companies by increasing productivity with lean software development and agile methodologies. Want to know more? All views are only his own.
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Benutzt Du nicht die Statistik im Iphone? Das mach ich immer. Ansonsten kann man doch bei mein.t-mobile.de reinschauen – oder war das im Moment gesperrt, weil sie die Kundendaten verlieren/verkaufen?

stephan

@Carsten: Wo finde ich die HSDPA Statistik? mein.t-mobile.de zeigt mir keinen Datenverbrauch.

Christoph

Einfach die 2000 anrufen und dort Details sagen. Klappt bei mir super :)

stephan

@Christoph: Ich hätte die Info gern im Web oder im Iphone. Anrufen und durch den (nehme ich an) üblichen Roboter quälen liegt mir nicht :-)

(Danke aber, ist besser als erstmal nichts)

Christoph

@Stephan: Auch unter mein.t-mobile.de findest du die Daten — einfach auf die “Im Dezember verbrauchte Minuten:” Grafik klicken. Dann kommt eine Detail Seite.

stephan

@Christoph:

Da kommt bei mir:

bisher genutztes Relax-Budget 1 Minuten

Summe bisher verbuchter Verbindungspreise 0,00 Euro

Details Dezember
bisher genutztes Relax-Budget 1 Minuten

bisher genutztes SMS-Budget 0 Stück

Aber kein Datenverbrauch (?)

Christoph

Bei mir kommt (für einen Relax Tarif der 2. Generation):

Monat Dezember
bisher genutztes Relax-Budget 3 Minuten
Summe bisher verbuchter Verbindungspreise 0,00 Euro
Details Dezember
bisher genutztes Relax-Budget 3 Minuten
bisher genutztes SMS-Budget 7 Stück
bisher genutztes Daten-Volumen-Budget 3 Megabyte und 204 Kilobyte
bisher genutztes WLAN-Budget 0 Stunden und 0 Minuten

Das sollte genug Futter für einen Anruf im Callcenter sein :)

stephan

@Christoph: Sehr sonderbar, die unteren Punkte fehlen bei mir, und sind laut Aussage Callcenter auch gar nicht machbar (für alle ;-)

Hast du Complete-S?

Christoph

Nein, hab einen alten Relax Vertrag + Web&Walk M (nicht mit Iphone).

stephan

Ok, danke für die Info, bespreche ich mit dem Callcenter.

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