Comments on: iPhone data roaming bills nightmare

By: mificlub

mificlub — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:12:49 +0000

Have you heard of mificlub? It’s something I started so you’ll never never have to search for wifi hotspots again. Never pay for data roaming again. But have the convenience of wifi where ever you are in the UK.

http://mificlub.com

By: Michelle111

Michelle111 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:39:13 +0000

If you are travelling to the UK or Europe http://www.fonmigo.com rents local smartphone and mobile wi-fi modems. If you are an iPhone user and want to take you iPhone, a mobile wifi is the solution to your roaming problems. Mobile wifi gives you wifi anywhere in the UK at amazing rates.

By: Nchurmdaz

Nchurmdaz — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:31:32 +0000

2Kelz

Wow, what would such a rich guy be doing here, reading an article on traffic bills? Aren’t you SO RICH, that you don’t really mind paying 5000$ and never paying attention to costs?

2 Article Author – Don’t tell me you are a web developer, if you don’t even know the average size of a 2000×1500 .jpg image! In addition, you’ve failed to figure that 0.005$ per KB equals 5.12$ per MB.

You somehow managed to leech ~600 mb with that sucky piece of plastic!!! Doesn’t it have a built-in GPRS/EDGE traffic counter or something??? It’s a wildly standard cellphone function for over 5 years.

I send my cheers to AT&T – nice job in emptying the lazy-minded people’s pockets! Keep up the good work!

By: David

David — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:58:10 +0000

I think I can top that… my bill was 4000$, currently I negotiated the bill to be 550$ and all interest waved. I am still thinking maybe I can do better.

By: Kelz

Kelz — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:07:03 +0000

Yo, I don’t realy give a damn. I have 3 iphones that I use daily and get like 5,000 in bills. Well Im rich and rich guys like me don’t give a damn. You can’t imagine how much money I have. So, its coo with me ya know what Im sayin’. All I can say is KEEP IT COMIN’ and remember that I, Kelz, get money. Im RICH B*TCH!

By: Ty

Ty — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:34:02 +0000

Wow, that sucks big time.

IT is really good that they waived the bill though, I would hope they waived my bill.

By: Sherry I

Sherry I — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:29:51 +0000

I have made 4 international trips since getting my iphone. On the first, I used wifi and was spared any significant charges. On the second I got what I thought was a whopping bill – $300, but figured a young person traveling with me had gone wild and it was my own fault. On the third trip, EDGE wasn’t available, so again a smallish bill. On this most recent trip, I got a text message from AT&T a few days in telling me my data usage was high and to call. I will probably save any argument with them by signing up for the data plan for the first 50 MB of use, but may still have up to $1000 to argue about. I think two things are needed: (1) apple and AT&T know who we all are and should send an urgent alert about this situation. (The way I see it, it is not AT&Ts fault that the phone is designed to have such high data usage without real awareness on the part of the user since most of it is happening in the background – that’s a design flaw that Apple should own.) (2) AT&T should offer a blackberry-type plan. Like others, I decided to get an iphone because I did view is as a computer substitute for some international trips. However given the current situation, actually using it in this fashion is cost prohibitive.

By: geraint owen

geraint owen — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:48:40 +0000

i’m afraid i can top that. just had a call from att this afternoon telling me i have data charges of $3444.48 for my 3 weeks in england and france. I knew that the google maps thing was way too much fun…..

Anyway, I didn’t do as well as you. I did sign up for the international data plan as i travel a lot and then the bill was cut to about $700. But its a very expensive laptop replacement for a vacation. Obviously that blackberry plan should be available for the iPhone. Someone is being very greedy..

By: Billy

Billy — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:43:30 +0000

Wow $3000 bucks. ATT sucks. I had something similiar happen to me using roaming to another state with Cingular, which is now ATT. My bill was $700, no where near your $3000.

ATT should forgive the mistake as you are a good customer.

Cell phone companies suck in general as they can do many things to help consumers such as maybe give you a call or email saying, “Wait a minute you have exceeded your monthly plan or something to that effect.” They sure love customers like you and I.

Billy.

By: iPhoneros.com

iPhoneros.com — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

redes wifi libres disponibles. Al señor Dave Stolt, no debieron decirle nada, porque salió de Viaje unas dos semanas a Inglaterra y Irlanda, cuando volvió se encontró con una hermosa factura de AT&T de unos 2500€ esperando a ser pagada. Visto enSlashGear