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Old Nov 14, 2010 | 4:08 pm
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Originally Posted by dtsm
Maybe I wasn't clear, my bad.
TMO's international email plan gives free email and I know TMO also charges for data [$15 or $19 per mb ]. I was referring to only emails and not surfing internet [downloading data, checking weather, sports, news, etc].

Also, not familar with android but is there way to pull vs push email? With iPhone, you can configure settings to:
1. fetching emails manually.
2. turning off network

If android has similar functions, then I could wait to download emails until i'm connected to wifi.
Well, here is the problem - the Blackberry unlimited international plan is designed for email that passes through the Blackberry servers, which is why they are able to determine just how much data you use for email, and what you use for other services.

This means that the Blackberry email service will most likely not work with an Android phone.

It may, it may not - the risk is too great for me to find out the hard way.
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