Haha. Yeah. I just made my iPhone my official phone. Although my Motorola has not reached it’s “end” yet, but due to a change in my Broadband on Mobile (BBOM) plan, I had to “retire” it earlier than what I thought.
As I mentioned before in my earlier post, I was using my iPhone only as an on-the-go web browser due to my initial BBOM plan. I had a one year BBOM contract with Singtel starting last June, but this plan comes with a data sim card which cannot be used for the iPhone. The data sim card only allows me to surf on my laptop or iPhone, but it cannot be tied to my phone sim card.
Apparently, I need to sign up another BBOM plan and get a voice & data sim card in order for me to surf and make calls at the same time. It just didn’t make sense for me to have two simultaneous BBOM contracts and paying double, so I decided to wait it out till my first BBOM contract expires!
Well, just last week, my contract was up, so I took up a new BBOM plan which can allow me to use the same sim card to make calls and surf the internet. It didn’t cost much different from what I was paying earlier, but I also subscribed to a second sim card for another S$5 a month for my laptop surfing.
So just two days ago, I finally got my iPhone to ring for the first time! A bit slow huh, but better late than never lah…LOL…
Tip: For those with two BBOM sim cards, you can only make one your primary card where it can receive incoming and outgoing calls. The other will just be able to make outgoing calls. The code to activate your primary card is to send a dial *431# from your phone, if I didn’t remember wrongly. Hehe.
by Khairul Neezam, on July 2 2009 @ 1:36 am
Hello! Good to know you can finally use your iPhone for calls. Hehehe.
Btw, how much of data did you utilise on your iPhone when it was on BBOM?
by Miss iPhone, on July 2 2009 @ 7:39 am
Hi Khairul,
I think the most I used was 10gb.
Well, I am still on BBOM, just that I signed up for two sim cards so that I can use it with the laptop as well.
by Khairul Neezam, on July 2 2009 @ 8:05 am
Ouh 10gb. Were you tethering then? Or just surfing/downloading on the iPhone?
by Miss iPhone, on July 15 2009 @ 2:48 am
I think I was using the same sim card on both laptop and iphone then. Got to interchange between the two at that time as I only had one sim card. But now I have one for each (had to pay $5 extra though every month)
30 gb is quite sufficient unless you download very intensive stuff.