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Scottish minister blames sons watching football for £11,000 iPad roaming bill
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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Fuck mobile operators, this kind of cost should be illegal to exist at all.
So in the UK every mobile operator has to offer a spend cap. I roam a lot (and pay £10 a month for free roaming to the US and EU) so I set a £10 cap. It took seconds and I will never get a surprise bill. This was beyond careless.
They should offer a use cap. I don't give a fuck about getting what I pay for, I just have a problem when they refuse to implement a facile safeguard on top of the legislationwhere you can ask to be forcably cutoff or subtract it from next month's "allotment". Jesus
Because it’s a government device, and account, they may not have that ability. The government could set the cap, I’m sure, but then if you really do need the data and have to call IT….
MNO here, i would also like our SIM not to have extra roaming cost.
All telco companies shouldn't charge more for roaming
Wait, you have roaming costs? Oh yeah one of the Brexit advantages
Yeah. A smidge under 4 GB and it's was a five figure cost? That is complete bullshit. We all know the actual costs are miniscule. It's mad price gouging because most people don't need to roam and thus they can can prey on it. It shouldn't be possible to get anywhere close to that kinda bill without multiple explicit approvals where the costs are clearly communicated (I can't tell if they were).
Right? Ignoring the scandal this man's responsible for - fuck roaming charges. Were these kids watching football from low Earth orbit? That's the only way a few gigabytes of data should cost thousands of pounds. If they were vacationing in a merely terrestrial nation, I guaranfuckingtee the locals around them were paying orders of magnitude less for identical network service.
It is the 21st century. Everyone has a cell phone. Everywhere has cell phone service. Nobody should be charged as though the technology works by lighting gold on fire. Streaming video cannot be priced higher than tickets to fly out and see the game in person.
The absolute most anyone should be charged is 2x - normal data plan with the home operator + equivalent plan price for roaming country
Edit: I'm being generous to them by assuming not all operators will have mutual agreements in all countries
I look forward to people thinking 2x is excessive, because they're unaware it used to be comedic. This has already happened with landlines. Long-distance numbers were once the difference between a dial-up internet session being $5 versus $1500.