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Mike Rofone wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Mike Rofone wrote

>>> Are there any mobile providers which may have mobile plans which are all inclusive?

>> Yes.

> Such as?

Dunno, just noticed that in some of their ads.

I still get my mobile calls for free so dont bother to keep track of whose ads they were.

>>> I'd like one where for say, $60 a month covers the cost of calls,
>>> SMS and MMS'ing.

>> They cant cover unlimited numbers of those for that price.

> It needn't be a capped plan. I'd like to see the $60 (or whatever
> your budget may be) cover a set number of minutes or calls, with
> each message reducing that by 25/50 cents or whatever the
> providers charge for SMS and MMS messages.

Thats what any post paid plan does. Or maybe you mean that
it wont let you make any more calls once the $60 is gone. Thats
what prepaid does.

> So, if $60 gives me say, 100 minutes (more like 70 mins with
> Telstra) then as I spend money on messaging, then the available
> number of minutes or calls are reduced accordingly.

>>> My current plan $60, covers calls only.
>>> Messaging and data are charged separately

>> There is no alternative with data.

> Yes, I know. And Quota (the Android app) handles that. It's just that
> it doesn't handle charges for SMS/MMS in conjunction with mobile calls.

Then get a better app which does. Its unlikely to be a unique requirement.

>>> which makes it difficult to track using mobile phone apps such as
>>> "Quota", which I've recently installed onto my phone. It only looks
>>> at my calls and registers a running total. Any messages are billed
>>> separately which it doesn't track.

>> Then get a better usage tracker.

> There really isn't much out there.

Thats what you get with android.

> Quota is the best that I've seen, so far. There may be better
> ones, perhaps in the iPhone market, but I've not seen them.

> I was using a different Usage Meter app, but it takes a fair bit of
> configuring to set up. But then it doesn't look at your actual billing.
> Rather, it monitors the phone's call logs and presents that data
> gleaned that way.