orange data abroad 5mb for £15

costaerer

im going to egypt and israel in a few weeks and just called up orange to add a data plan so i can use my blackberry abroad....

he said £15 for 5mb which i thought was pretty reasonable!

is this true?? seems to good to be true lol

Exhortation

How much data are you planning on using? I was in Egypt last year for two weeks and only used email, not internet. When I got home I think my additional charges were only about £2. The trick is to download headers only and just open the really important emails. If you can download all emails as plain text rather than html then all the better. Back then I was on O2 using a Nokia E90 with Blackberry installed.

evertvorster

costaerer wrote: »

im going to egypt and israel in a few weeks and just called up orange to add a data plan so i can use my blackberry abroad....

he said £15 for 5mb which i thought was pretty reasonable!

is this true?? seems to good to be true lol

I'd imagine it would be. I'm with Orange and recently upgraded to a HTC desire and while checking my usage since my last bill, I noticed i'd been stung for £22.00 data charges, I receive 500mb free on my contract. Queried via customer services and found out that while in Holland recently this is where I'd racked up data charges. I know I only used the phone briefly for some web sites and at the time I was concious of being charged something so switched to my dutch mobile but no way £22's worth and when questioned I had been done for only using 9mb's and as it's a smart phone will collect date even when your not physically using the internet.

I wasn't best pleased. So if going abroad either turn off by managing your settings or buy a bundle.

ampletime

Networks now have to set a limit of about £40 or so. This means that when you hit that mark they cut off your internet and then you have to phone to have it put back on.

Networks at the moment are trying to flog their bundles for data usage abroad even more so than usual due to this cap. I went abroad with no bundle for 2 weeks and had a £18 charge. Try to avoid it and only connect to WIFI if you can. Most places offer free WIFI these days.

DarkConvict

The £40 limti i believe is for EU roaming, but correct me if im wrong.

What is important to check is the following. 5MB for £15. When does the counter for the 5MB start/stop. It is often a daily limit, so using 0.5MB a day for 7 days is actually £15 * 7. Be careful on this, i've seen people on the forums get hit by it expecting roaming data to last a month when it is lasting only a day.

costaerer

£15 for 5mb then god nos what the charges are after!

boliston

It looks like orange charge £8/mb for "out of bundle" useage in egypt. When you consider that a 3g smartphone can easily rack up over 100mb/day through normal usage you can see why people get stung with nasty bills!
I'd say get a local sim if possible.
When data in the UK typically costs about 3p/mb (that's what I pay on payg without any data "bundle") I don't know how they can get away with charging 300x this price simply for being in another country!

costaerer

i ONLY want it for blackberry messenger..... and i always have 3g off , just drains the battery!

KEM

boliston wrote: »

When data in the UK typically costs about 3p/mb (that's what I pay on payg without any data "bundle") I don't know how they can get away with charging 300x this price simply for being in another country!

How do you manage to get data at 3p/MB on PAYG?

boliston

KEM wrote: »

How do you manage to get data at 3p/MB on PAYG?

I'm using the AAISP mobile service http://aa.nu/telecoms-mobile.html and so far i've been pretty impressed with it. The best thing is that there are no "bundles" of anything to worry about, you simply pay for exactly what you use, no more no less!
They use the three network for transit of data, voice & texts but there is no actual contract with three - this is important to me as I generally find that dealing with a mobile network directly is often an exercise in frustration, as it is very difficult to ever call a mobile network and get a straight answer to a straight question.