Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - Windows Phone 7.5/8 - missing feature or just hidden? http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 Forums - Coffeehouse - Windows Phone 7.5/8 - missing feature or just hidden? http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums en Tue, 21 May 2013 17:32:51 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 17:32:51 GMT Rev9 7 -7 -1 Coffeehouse - Windows Phone 7.5/8 - missing feature or just hidden? Hi,

 

I've bough my daughters a Windows Phone each, just before Christmas, both on a cheap contract (in the UK). The phone contract allows upto 100Mb of data download per month. On their older Android phones it was possible to download an app that would monitor and limit their download's every month to just 100Mb, ensuring they didn't go over their limit and be charged for it.

You guessed it! Is there anything similar for Windows Phone (7.5)?

Thanks for your help

Graham

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that sounds perfect. Now, if only some UK providers supported it (and it was going to be in WP 7.8).

 

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(p.s. have you considered whether Pay and Go may be a better option - at that level of data usage it would be competitively priced to a contract with the added benefit that you can't get a nasty surprise on the bill at the end of the month. It's a low tech solution but very effective (plus if they want more data they can easily just pay for more). Also some networks (Tesco, for instance) will cap contracts. ie. they cut services at their end once the monthly bill reaches a certain level.)

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They are both on contracts as it was cheeper to do that as they get unlimited (or 500) text per month - and you know how many txt's these 'young uns' send Smiley

 

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