Fido Roaming Rates

[seal_clubber]

I am back from my cruise of the eastern seaboard now. While I was in the States I had my iPhone pretty much in "Airplane Mode" because I didn't want it latch onto any other carrier and sock me with roaming charges

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[seal_clubber]

While you're abroad, Fido charges a staggering $0.30 (thirty cents) per kilobyte. That means you're paying $30 per megabyte, which further translates to $30,000 per gigabyte. The correct answer to the poll, then, horrifyingly enough, is that Fido would charge me sixty thousand dollars to stream a two gigabyte movie to my phone while abroad. I wonder how many people have failed to check the rates before travelling and then had to remortgage their homes.

Just turning off data roaming on your iPhone is not enough. If you do that, it will simply switch over to 3G and try to connect that way (your iPhone wants to be connected). Before I realized it was doing this, it hooked itself up to AT&T in Maine and managed to transfer 1.5mb of data (doing what, I don't know -- handshaking, perhaps) so I can expect a $45 jump in my next bill

[chixxor]

Yikes! I guessed $6,000.

On a somewhat related phonebill note, I read an article in the newspaper a little while ago where an iPhone had started connecting to the net while it was charging, and the woman had left it charging overnight, so she got a 10,000 NOK phonebill. Which she had to pay, 'cause her carrier said it was Apple's fault, and Apple said it was her carriers fault. I don't know what the fuck I'd do if something like that happened to me. It's apparently happened to a few other people.

[davesbrain]

I'm tellin' ya. Whippersnapper stuff. I have not bought a new piece of technology in years because no one will give me a straight answer about how much it will cost on a monthly basis. (Aside from the usual "about $120 per month. Doesn't matter what it is.")

I fear just being near devices in the stores, lest simply being in their presence is enough to sign me up for a monthly drain on my credit card.

WTF?

[gmajor]

I guessed $600, I had no idea. Thanks for the tip though. Seems It'd make more financial sense to just buy a new phone for each country you visit. Yikes!

[singofmyself]

HOLY SCHAMOLY!

That's just ridiculous.