I went to Egypt in Easter with my family

[Guns 'n' Roses]

My daughter went on the internet via WiFi in the reception and via a Mac cable in our hotel room. I know she didn't go on the net via her mobile phone. She checked that the WiFi sign was up every time she was on the net.

Still she got an unspeakable mobile phone bill when returning home claiming she'd been on 3G. She is also sure she turned data roaming off.

She's traveled abroad ****loads of times before, using an iPhone 4, and it has never happened before. With her iPhone 5 all sorts of **** seems to happen.

[Brentwood]

I was in London. My boss was not impressed when i got back

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/phones/2012/11/iphone- users-hit-by-data-roaming-charges-after-disabling-function (http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/phones/2012/11/iphone-users-hit-by-data-roaming-charges-after-disabling-function)

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

You can also get hammered if her friends send her MMS type text messages...

Always best to have a "throwaway" pay as you go phone with a locally sourced sim card to avoid those nasty charges..

[Guns 'n' Roses]

110 NOK per mB in Egypt. Modern piracy.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

And use wifi when applicable. Never had a 3G usage charge.

[Guns 'n' Roses]

happens to you if you step into a bar in Soho and agree to buy one of the girls a bottle of Champagne.

"That'll be 5000 punds, Sir."

Same ****, the phone company will rob you.

[Guns 'n' Roses]

I suspect she's wrong, and that the data roaming was on. Still, she never went on the 3G.

Thing was she was in Stockholm the week before and opened the phone to foreign usage. Travelling to Egypt in the same month left her open for massive usage.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

country.

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

I thought the EU were bringing in legislation to stop mobile phone companies from over-charging and that a cap limit was to be applied?

BTW: I worked for a company that did the financial clearing for the middle east mobile phone companies.....the monthly fees they generate is astounding...even for the 2nd and 3rd tier level providers that piggy back onto the 1st tier companies infrastructure.

[Guns 'n' Roses]

which she did in Stockholm. She apparently was notified about the costs as they came along, but she didn't understand what it was, besides, what was she to do, she did as I told her and never went on the net. :shrug:

[Guns 'n' Roses]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

as it syncs all of your emails and data etc. So she may have just flicked it on to check one thing and thought 5 minutes won't hurt too much. But it could be a weeks worth of data rushing into the handset in that 5 minutes.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

:hide:

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Guns 'n' Roses]

;-)

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

I have that on my Samsung Galaxy S2.

Saves me a whole lot of grief and makes my 3g data usage more efficient.

[Maravilloso Marvo]

piece of meat.

[Guns 'n' Roses]

in addition to the one mentioned in Soho - where you can get yourself into serious debt by being a leetle bit careless.

[Guns 'n' Roses]

[Pat Vegas]

http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&th=543121 &mid=3703710&rid=7103&S=c9acea9ba064241a8ad59549 bc2289d3&rev=&reveal= (http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&th=543121&mid=3703710&rid=7103&S=c9acea9ba064241a8ad59549bc2289d3&rev=&reveal=)

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

Were you data streaming for NASA?

:yikes:

[Pat Vegas]

from the previous item. So I have no idea if they have give me a bit more off or not. But after the 65k was removed my account is now -£85 in credit :shrug: