ICloud Storage question:  why do I have 25GB

Everything I read says you get 5GB of storage free and pay for extra
When I go to Settings/icloud/storage & backup, my total storage is shown as 25GB
Any idea why that would be?
A couple of possibilities I have thought of is that I had mobileme family pack and although I did not purchase extra space, maybe that's why they gave me more?
or
I have now updated a total of 5 devices:  1 iphone; 1 ipad; 1 macbook air; 1 mac mini; and 1 mac mini server
Is it possible that we get a allocation of 5 GB per device??
Not a big deal, I guess but, I'd like to know if I have it permanently or might have some of it taken away down the road
thanks

I think you'll find it a very sneaky marketing ploy. Everybody gets 5GB for free as advertised, but they've allocated you 25GB to start with. You then start using the facility. Then once you've got it firmly embedded in your work practices with all your documents uploaded they'll tell you that you need to pay for the extra storage you're using (at £28 per year) or lose it. Hope I'm wrong, but I think that's Apple's new way of screwing customers........

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