FC ([info]florence_chan) wrote,
@ 2008-10-03 17:30:00
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Roaming data charges for cell phones are *criminal*.

I just got back from a work trip to NYC that spanned all of 4.5 days.  This afternoon, Bell Mobility  just texted me to say that I owe them over $250.  Astounded, I phoned them up to see what the heck was going on, and it turns out they want $300+ for 11MB of transfer.

For a bit of comparison here, our household last month had a slight overage on bandwidth and we paid CDN $1 for each 1G over our limit.

So... really... wtf?  What a scam!

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[info]cguy
2008-10-05 02:29 am UTC (link)
Yeah, they really need to get their heads out of their asses. Cell companies are still stuck in the dark ages, and assume that it's mostly businesses that need/want this kind of service, and that therefore they can charge an arm and a leg for it. And for business customers they're right, unfortunately. I think this is going to be a bigger deal now that more capable phones are really becoming mainstream here, though.

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[info]gally99
2008-10-05 03:51 am UTC (link)
woah o__o

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