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blackberry data plan on SG2

Paramazon

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okay guys so you might this is one of those same questions "will blackberry data plan work on a smartphone?!?!" haha no, but anyways here is the problem. I do have a bb data plan with 500mb(kinda low but whateves) and everything works perfectly fine on the SG2 except the actual internet. The internet does not work, it only works on my wifi but not the actual data. now ive tried my mother's sim card(which is also has blackberry plan and has almost identical plan with 500mb) and the SG2 data internet works completely fine on her sim card. any suggestions? BTW im with rogers. thank you and if anyone have an answer please do so reply.
 
Not sure completely what is the reason unless there are something different with both your plans.

My daughter ran on a Blackberry 9700 Bold, then got tired of if even though she still had a contract. I gave her my Samsung Galaxy S, which by then was updated to Froyo. The phone worked including mobile internet.

Note, a Blackberry data plan consists of two things: the mobile internet and within it, the Blackberry Internet Service that pushes email and social networking notifications (BBM, Facebook, Twitter) to the phone. The same plan should work on any other smartphone using mobile data, and in fact, it would not affect separate systems of push notifications, like GMail, Hotmail, Facebook or Twitter, because all these go through this regular internet.

In some countries, there are BIS only plans that are so cheap because they are BIS only but don't have regular mobile Internet. This plan lets you have push email, Twitter, BBM and Facebook notifications, but does not have mobile browsing or access to the other web using apps. For many people, these plans are more than enough, and its a reason why Blackberry is doing so well in emerging countries.

Now if you have such a plan and you put the SIM on an Android smartphone, you get voice and text only but no regular mobile internet. You can still use wifi though.
 
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