I don’t know what’s going on with the internet I got for 6 months, but I’m starting to get text messages like “Your phone may require an internet connection, please activate it at blablabla”. And since September 20, they have also been regularly telling me that I have used up my data limit.
I used to download xxx GB of YouTube videos and they never told me anything – even though, according to the information available to me, there should be a FUP of 500 MB per day. So maybe they really have started enforcing this FUP, but surely not, because I definitely don’t transfer 500MB a day. Who knows how it really is. There are several options I should choose from:
- Use the SIM card from T-Mobile that I got when I bought my new phone. It has the Twist Pratele Extra plan: 👻 The page moved out and left no forwarding address..
But calling for 7 CZK/minute and texting for 3.5 CZK/message is something I wouldn’t want, so I’m probably sweeping this idea off the table for good. Those prices apply outside of 5 selected friends. Internet costs 39 CZK/week/40MB. - Split my current VF SIM card in two (DvojSIMka) – 👻 This URL stopped leading anywhere long ago – the GPS lost its signal for good.. You get SIM card 1 and SIM card 2.
I’d welcome it if it worked, say, so that calls and texts came to SIM card 1 but I could use the internet on both phones at the same time. If only so that I’d have all received texts in one phone.
I know, I have Androids, so it could certainly be backed up somewhere “to the cloud”, so this isn’t such a big problem either. But that’s not how it works – you must have only one phone switched on at a time, otherwise you can get stuck in a loop of turning both devices off and on before one of them finally catches a signal. - Get a “fair” VF plan. But the cheapest plan with 50 free minutes disappointed me with its price – 399 CZK. I “can’t” talk that much in my life! I’m not saying never in the future, but definitely not now. And when I want a higher plan in the future, I can always activate Plan 2 on my InKarta: 👻 This link is now just a fossil from the days when people still trusted the internet..
I know, it includes free texts within the VF network, but I can also send those via Oskarek or VF Park, plus mobile internet with a 150MB FUP. And VF even boasts that the “original price” was 677 CZK. So I’d better hurry up so that I don’t end up paying those 677 CZK.
So what will I decide? I definitely wouldn’t want to leave VF, so I’ll probably get the DvojSIMka. Being able to have only one phone switched on is something I’ll survive somehow; at least both won’t run out of battery at once, since those Androids are pretty poor on battery life, even though the Galaxy Y has great battery life.
Browsing the web and some apps on the small 3” display won’t be much fun, but what can you do. Apps like Draw Something could be a problem, because I’d like to use the small Galaxy Y as my main phone and turn on the S+ only when I need some app that the “Y” doesn’t support. But there are quite a few of them and I keep discovering new ones, so it would rather be the other way around – having the Galaxy S+ as my main phone and turning on the Y only when the S+ runs out of battery. Some people on DS keep pestering me to play, and I don’t want to let them down.
THAT’s IT! 2 phones are worth it, an “economical” phone has saved me once before. I read online that they should be able to do it while I wait at a VF store too, so I’ll call them and ask whether I could come in today and whether it would be possible.
Then again, they most likely won’t be there at all today, since it’s a public holiday. Someone will surely say I should only start dealing with it on October 17… but I just want to make sure it will work as it should and that the switch after October 17 will go smoothly.