401000 bytes transmitted/downloaded 14 times in 5 mins whilst roaming - ideas anyone?

2sides2everystory

On a recent skiing holiday have been charged for over 6MB of data that I cannot reconcile apparently charged by the O2 network or BASE in Austria. At the time I was asleep. When I am awake I am careful with my data connections and all applications are kept in offline mode unless I manually decide otherwise. I use FishText but that uses tiny amounts of data and can reconcile those sessions easily. Otherwise the only significant other app is Spotify which was in ofline mode.

Anyone seen anything similar on their bill?

It was connect then 401000 bytes of chargeable data then disconnect, and then the same pattern again for a total of 14 times in 5 minutes.

The only difference was the last three digits in the data quantity which ranged from 401091 to 401476 bytes.

I cannot think what on earth it might be, and my home network (3 mobile) agree it looks odd but cannot tell me anything more about it and have so far refused to refund it.

Any ideas anyone?

Browntoa

what phone .....

2sides2everystory

Sorry ... meant to say ... Nokia X6 ... not originally a 3 mobile handset ... firmware v20.0.005

JJ_Egan

Loks like one of the background apps trying to retrieve data failing and trying to pull it down again .Or an app trying to auto update .

jje

2sides2everystory

I understand the thought, JJE, and if it was a Windows laptop yes, but it is not, it's not even a late model mobile phone. It's 18 months old and relatively undemanding and hasn't done this before when roaming. Data costs the earth so how many mobile apps behave like that and survive unscathed in the UK?

I am more inclined to suspect it as some kind of a glitch in the local network. which are sometimes a bit stretched to the limit in the mountains I think.