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Friday 10 October 2008, 1:41 PM

Data roaming hell - what can we do ?

Posted by utzy

This is just a friday snippit about what can we do with data roaming charges on smart phones. A recent Euro business trip ended with a heft roaming data charge of over £65 for Vodafone, just for checking email and not downloading any attachments. I even made sure to check tariffs for travel before leaving and was given a 75p per MB tariff within the EU. Now in the tedious dispute stage with the provider continues.

Can anyone offer guidance here? Is there any hope that this will change?

Utz

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roger andre

Oh dear, not to up on the roaming pricing arangements, but wouldn't it be handy to have a net book or some other device that can make use of free wi fi hotspots for checking mail etc? Hell...it would even be cheaper to pop into a local internet cafe.

The only thing one can really do when unfair pricing is involved is to boycott the service.

Let's face it a few more bills like that and you could get yourself a net book of somekind. Did I hear about a mac version of a net book somewhere or am I imagining things?

Updated by roger andre on Oct 10, 2008 3:30 PM

utzy

Yeah you can do that but wifi is few and far between outside big urban areas hardly ever free, and boycotting yeah but surely like all this roaming sms and calls business should be brought to useable tariff for better or worse we are in the EU. Mac netbook hmm I doubt it just yet

Posted by utzy on Oct 10, 2008 3:44 PM

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