Orange-horror itemised phone bill from Canada

custardy

lulubelle41 wrote: »

The only thing I can see is the 'use mobile data for' and the App Store is 556MB. Everything else is small amounts of KB.

Will pursue. Thanks for the info.

So answer the questions.
Is this the only time the phone was used abroad?

grumbler

This question has already been answered.

NFH

lulubelle41 wrote: »

The only thing I can see is the 'use mobile data for' and the App Store is 556MB. Everything else is small amounts of KB.

What about system services at the bottom? If you go into that, it will give you a breakdown for each service.

custardy

grumbler wrote: »

This question has already been answered.

Seems pretty clear the OP used the data if the handset supports the bill. It really is becoming a bit cliche now.perhaps networks should add an apptitude test the activating roaming.

NFH

custardy wrote: »

perhaps networks should add an apptitude test the activating roaming.

Perhaps the networks should stop unreasonably surcharging for non-UK use. Orange's price of £8,000/GB is exorbitant and way beyond what a reasonable person would expect to pay.

custardy

NFH wrote: »

Perhaps the networks should stop unreasonably surcharging for non-UK use. Orange's price of £8,000/GB is exorbitant and way beyond what a reasonable person would expect to pay.

High price or not.the op racked up a huge data use

Altarf

custardy wrote: »

Seems pretty clear the OP used the data if the handset supports the bill. It really is becoming a bit cliche now.perhaps networks should add an apptitude test the activating roaming.

That would get in the way of the network's aim of getting as much money out of their customers as possible.

Why do you think that there is a €50 cap for Europe and not outside? If you think there is a technical reason you are deluding yourself.

custardy

Altarf wrote: »

That would get in the way of the network's aim of getting as much money out of their customers as possible.

Why do you think that there is a €50 cap for Europe and not outside? If you think there is a technical reason you are deluding yourself.

making money :eek:
Its an opt in cost.
£400 gets you 500mb a day in Canada for 30 days on Orange
thats 15GB of data.
However the OP could have been charged whatever given they made no attempts to control their data use.

spannerzone

They do it because they (currently) can get away with it. There's no way AT&T will be charging Oranges hundreds of pounds per megabyte of roamed data but untill the EU get their hands of roaming charges for outside the EU this will continue.

With so many smartphones using data and so many people travelling abroad this will continue to happen and make phone networks a helluva profit. Make hay while the sun shines eh!

Altarf

spannerzone wrote: »

They do it because they (currently) can get away with it.

"Currently"? As far as I am aware, there are no plans to do anything about non-EU roaming charges.