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Lebara Data Munching

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  • PHK
    PHK Posts: 2,600 Forumite
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    You mention in your OP that you used 200 megabytes in three hours playing Sudoku online.

    That's not an excessive amount for a web page nowadays.

    Where were you seeing the adverts?

  • jimjames
    jimjames Posts: 19,279 Forumite
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    As Lebara is a separate company to Vodafone and would not advertise for them despite using their network I think you can safely say it's nothing to do with Lebara

    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • WIAWSNB
    WIAWSNB Posts: 3,155 Forumite
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    Hi Windlesham.

    Do you know how to take screenshots? Worth doing and placing on here for folk to see? There's summat amiss.

  • windlesham1
    windlesham1 Posts: 7 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary First Post Combo Breaker

    Dear all, thanks for the comments yes all sorted now. Some spurious downloads in the middle of the night and VOD became the Google homepage ands kept cropping up. This stopped after a couple of weeks. On a trip away from home for 24 hours only used 190Meg using the phone for stock market data, FB,SuDoku etc. So delighted with the £1.80 a month cost, courtesy of MSE.

  • FFHillbilly
    FFHillbilly Posts: 559 Forumite
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    edited 10 May at 10:13PM

    I have a similar problem. I have never really used that much data, around 6 years ago I had a plan with 2GB and set a notification on m phone to tell me when I used 2GB, the last 2 contracts had more data included but I never figured out how to remove the 2gb warning which i only saw once a year, if at all.

    so last month I was shoping for sims, saw the 3GB Lebarra deal and went for it seeing as I rarely go over 2GB. I've now ran out of data, contract started on the 21st April, it tells me i've used 3095MB to be precise on the usage spreadsheet which you can download

    Just looked at my phone and it's reporting only 1.2GB for May, and If I check the spreadsheet from Lebarra for those dates they seem to think I used 2048MG, which is just over 2GB

    So there is a discrepancy…

    I think I'll just get the 5GB plan which is only 5pence a month more if you get the MSE deal, should have just got that to begin with really

    on the Lebarra App I can see a way to change plan to the 5GB but it's full price with no 6 month introductory offer, is there an option to put in the MSE discount code if there is one, or am I going to have to order a new 5GB SIM and then port my number accross to the new one?

    EDIT;
    so I think I have figured it out:

    Purchased a 2GB data bolt on for £3 to keep me going for the next few days
    ordered a £1 1p mobile sim with £10 free credit
    the above sim card is so I can port my number out of Lebarra temporarily
    buy the MSE 5GB Lebarra plan , and then port my number back in

    the MSE lebarra deal says it ends on tuesday 12th, I'm sure it said something similar 3 weeks ago when I first signed up, does it just keep being renewed every week..?

  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 33,094 Forumite
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    Been with Lebara for a couple of months now and not had any excessive data, forgot I turned my WIFI off to use the phone
    as a hotspot in the car and it's used 60MB over the past 4 days. That will be the weather updating a couple of times a day
    and checking emails.

    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • ccluedo
    ccluedo Posts: 655 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker

    I don't really have a huge issue with Lebara. However I'm always amazed at the absolutely brilliant call and data quality I get in various Spanish locations over the years....espec the internet speed.

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