[Closed] Blackeberry Messenger advice needed

I have just recieved a Blackberry 8520 with 100 mins calls, 500 texts and 5mb of data per month.

I had a Blackberry 8 years ago and often used the BM service as this leaves your SMS quota intact, just using a small amount of your monthly data allowance.

When trying to use this feature on my new handset, i get a message saying the service is not supported. A call to my service provider reveals that I have to pay an additional £5/month to get this feature to work!?

Am I being mugged off here? Is there a way of getting this working? Does your provider charge you £5/month. Seems like a con given that I have 5mb of data included in the contract.

The salesman who sold me this had a bit of an attitude when I cancelled another number on my account. I am switching to another provider for reasons of cost. He banged on about how his company, unlike all the others, was completely transparent about the monthly charges. I don't call that transparency! Omissions such as this are as bad as lying!

When will the government make it law, forcing Telcos to get a clear signed agreement before entering into an agreement with users?

Maybe I should just cancel all together as I hate being mugged off by these greedy Telcos!

Any adivce from Blackberry users who have their own contracts would be most welcome!