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Edited by author 04-24-2007 09:35 AM

Big Bills

I've re-posted this on the main NewsWireless pages. Hope people get in touch! - drop me a note if you get anything, please, Sonia!

Hi, I'm writing from The Big Issue. We're thinking of looking into the Vodafone connect card problem. Can those who have had problems with huge bills which they didn't expect or just problems with this card, please get in touch? Either phone 020 7526 3325 or email soniajam@hotmail.com with 'Vodafone connect card' in the subject line. Many thanks. Sonia Zhuravlyova, The Big Issue, Newsdesk.

Edited by author 01-27-2007 12:05 PM
 Try to connect to Free Unlimitted GPRS.Unless u have to pay a lot of charge for using internet.Also i can help u to send Free SMS.U can Send Free SMS from website http://www.freesms.c-o.in

DO NOT, DO NOT! Purchase the Vodafone connect card. It is the biggest rip-off I have ever come across. I've just gotten a bill for more than 250 euros. I used it 4/5 times a week for a maximum of 2 hours a go. The price is impossible to reconcile with useage.

Edited by author 01-24-2005 09:23 PM
Hi Folks,

My boss used his Canadian GPRS in London and came back with a whopping $3500 bill trying to synchronize his email which has a filter of stripping out attachments larger than 300KB. What is the cheapest way for him to get his email and attachments on his laptop while is visiting the UK monthly?

In Canada, we pay $100 per month for unlimited usage, so it did not ocuur to him that it would be that expensive in England...

BTW, why is it so expensive in the UK? It seems that this is a real racket, n'est pas?

:(
Dev

Hi Folks ...

I have just bought a Vodafone 3G connect card after using an 02 Aircard and costing quite a bit. I have noticed that where on the Aircard I would have used say 100K for going to a few regular sites, on the Connect card I am using more like 500K ... .it seems that the Vodafone card is downloading much more data than the aircard. Even though i have 300mb/month on the connect card I am going to use it as quick as the aircard :(

Has anybody else noticed large download volumes ?

Cheers,
Dave.

Steve, that's terrible, and I'll look into it right away. Can you mail me with details, and I'll chase T-Mobile? The usual address will be best.

But it's no surprise. If you want GPRS cheaply, buy in bulk. I'm seriously thinking of switching over to the Vodafone 3G service...

T-Mobile charge £7.50 per megabyte transmitted via GPRS, the same for international. After testing with a Laptop in the UK I visited the EU for a week. I received a bill for over £200, and the charges keep coming in. Only retrospectively was I told that the online billing system can take 3 months to update, I have no idea what the final cost will be. Even though costs are supposed to be the same, charges overseas seem to me much more for similar usage in UK. I read somewhere that this is due to the foreign telecom companies re-transmitting data packages when a timely reply is not received. Does anyone have any information on this? If true, it means that the information given to me by T-mobile may have been misleading, and I may have some means of redress. Overall, the cost of the data usage was more than double the cost of the holiday - heartbreaking. Had I known these astronomical costs in advance, I would have used an Internet Cafe for €1.20 an hour. I have now disconnected the GPRS service.

Hopefully with the "all you can eat" offer, they will have the capacity to back it up.. Since Or*nge improved my GPRS allocation I frequently have trouble connecting with it, and now have to use the (paid for) GSM diallup option instead..

Hopefully with the "all you can eat" offer, they will have the capacity to back it up.. Since Or*nge improved my GPRS allocation I freq

It would seem to be important to make sure you select the right carrier, then. I found that I had to use Movistar when I was working in Andalucia, in the Granada district, a couple of months back - and the bill made my eyes water.

As far as I can remember, I couldn't get Vodafone in that region (a town called Orgiva)?

Guy

Guy,

Here's the countries I promised where the current Vodafone UK GPRS roaming promotion is available.

The promotion is a 60 percent discount on standard
roaming rates, meaning you pay 3.50 pounds per Mb, as opposed to 8.75 pounds per Mb. The countries are:

Vodafone D2 - Germany
Vodafone Airtel - Spain
SFR - France
Vodafone Ireland
Vodafone Libertel - Netherlands
Vodafone Omnitel - Italy
Vodafone Panafon - Greece
Vodafone Hungary
Vodafone Telecel - Portugal
Europolitan - Sweden
Radiolinja - Finland & Estonia

Steven, PR consultant to Vodafone

Edited by author 07-01-2003 09:41 AM
How much does it cost to shift a megabyte of data from London to Madrid?

If you do it via the Internet, you won't even notice it amongst your normal charges. Even if you dial up, rather than using broadeband, you won't be able to spot the charge. The most predatory dialup "free" ISP will charge something like 50 cents a minute, and a meg shifts in less than five minutes.

But if you ask a phone company to shift it, somehow, they can't do it for less than around $12 a megabyte. A ripoff.