O2 Roaming - Web Data - Any O2 customers that might know!

Lokolo

Hey All!

My parents are currently Walking like an Egyptian. On O2's website it states it costs £6 per MB.

Does anyone know if this is a daily limit or if you only get charged per MB used?

(so if you used 500kb by the end of the day, you'd be charged £6, or if the data can be spread over a week (say 200kb over 5 days) and still be charged just £6.

TIA

redux

it's just £6 per megabyte, linear, in units of (I believe) 1 kilobyte

thus 500k would be £3, 200k would come to £1.20

other networks have daft minimum daily charges, like £4 or £5 just for anything at all, but I don't think O2 have gone that way yet

Lokolo

So far so good, anyone else confirm? (not that I don't believe you red! But my step dad will be royally p*ssed if I am wrong haha)

redux

If they're going to use more than they think, and you'd like to hunt for data rates on local Egyptian SIMs, the networks are Etisalat Mobinil and Vodafone

nsabournemouth

o2 will also be able to put a limit of £40 for data usage on the account to prevent any shocks!

Lokolo

nsabournemouth wrote: »

o2 will also be able to put a limit of £40 for data usage on the account to prevent any shocks!

It says on the website you have to set this up before though!

From 1 March 2010 O2 Pay Monthly customers can set a monthly charge limit of £40 for data usage abroad. Once this limit is reached, the data service will be stopped. To set this charge limit call Customer Services.

Which I thought was pretty pointless unless you know about it ha.

nsabournemouth

Lokolo wrote: »

It says on the website you have to set this up before though!



Which I thought was pretty pointless unless you know about it ha.

I did have problems getting it set as even the customer service people i called didn't know anything about it and instead tried to sell me a £50 data roaming bolt on. I have a feeling though they are fully aware of it but want your money.