In USA, 16mb data used but data roaming is off!

[Deleted User]

Bit worrying since its £6/Mb with O2.
Data roaming is off but it still seems data is being used?

Also, sure I'm right that o2 freeze after £40 anyway - and £6 x 16 is more than this.

Any ideas?

shaun_from_Africa

Does your mobile phone keep a monthly record of data usage?
If so, is it possible that the 16mb in question was used before you were in the USA?

Did you turn off the data roaming before you arrived in the US or did you do this after landing?
If it was the latter then it's possible that some data was downloaded during this period, especially if your phone automatically checks and downloads e-mails or if you have other apps that automatically synch with a server.

grumbler

[quote=[Deleted User];discussion/4767564]Bit worrying since its £6/Mb with O2.
Data roaming is off but it still seems data is being used?[/QUOTE]iPhone by any chance?

Also, sure I'm right that o2 freeze after £40 anyway

They do promise this.

NFH

Why did you leave a UK SIM card in your phone while in the US? If you'd used a US SIM card, you could have enjoyed the use of your phone for $0.06 per MB.

thatsean

NFH wrote: »

Why did you leave a UK SIM card in your phone while in the US? If you'd used a US SIM card, you could have enjoyed the use of your phone for $0.06 per MB.

Perhaps the device is locked to a UK network? Whilst I agree that SIM free devices and airtime only SIMs are the way to go, it's not a payment model that everyone likes.

NFH

thatsean wrote: »

Perhaps the device is locked to a UK network?

SIM-locks can be removed. For example, O2 will unlock an iPhone on contract for free.

[Deleted User]

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Does your mobile phone keep a monthly record of data usage?
If so, is it possible that the 16mb in question was used before you were in the USA?

Did you turn off the data roaming before you arrived in the US or did you do this after landing?
If it was the latter then it's possible that some data was downloaded during this period, especially if your phone automatically checks and downloads e-mails or if you have other apps that automatically synch with a server.

Before. In fact, turned off mobile data. Checked and mobile data was back on (?) but roaming still off.

Phone records 16mb downloaded in the days we were here. Looks like background facebook etc.

[Deleted User]

grumbler wrote: »

iPhone by any chance?

They do promise this.

Galaxy S3. Weird then because 16Mb is way more than £40.

[Deleted User]

NFH wrote: »

Why did you leave a UK SIM card in your phone while in the US? If you'd used a US SIM card, you could have enjoyed the use of your phone for $0.06 per MB.

Yes. Got a similar one for other phone. But I needed this one still live for voice calls.

NFH

[quote=[Deleted User];63159890]Yes. Got a similar one for other phone. But I needed this one still live for voice calls.[/QUOTE]
You could have received voice calls on your O2 number via TU Go, costing you $0.06/MB, much less than the whopping 90p/min that O2 charges for receiving a call in the US. While on wifi, incoming calls would be totally free.

thatsean

NFH wrote: »

SIM-locks can be removed. For example, O2 will unlock an iPhone on contract for free.

Didn't know this was an option whilst the customer was still in contract with the device - cheers.