Originally Posted by
GadgetFreak
That isn't my experience nor what they told me with the BB. I have had it for a while and am only billed the monthly charge. They told me it was all data. I think there are others here with the same experience.
I had a TMO Blackberry for a couple of years with many int'l trips. I was never charged for data beyond the base unlimited package. I believe, but don't know for sure, that the key is having your Blackberry setup with a BES. My understanding is that a normal BES setup has all data flowing through the BES, so probably the carrier can't identify what is data vs email. Of course any data that flows otherwise would be easy to tag/count.
This is really just my educated guess at what happened and why some people have different experiences...