£307.20/mb Gprs

[Keighleyboy]

I use Lebara Mobile (UK), it is a very good service to which i have no problems with.
But unless i'm mistaken or their website incorrect to use GPRS abroad would cost me £307.20 a MB

Just out of interest has anyone else found daft prices like this with other providers?


(Source)
http://www.lebara-mobile.co.uk/en/roamingtariffs.php

GPRS International Roaming: £30
(per 100Kb of international data transferred)

[Keighleyboy]

This equals approx €387 or $599 (Canada and/or US)

[Motel75]

I would never, ever, trust a company that had a "catch" like that.

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by Keighleyboy

This equals approx €387 or $599 (Canada and/or US)

Whooohaaa... Imagine some poor guy put this SIM in his iphone and surf while travelling. The 3000$ roaming bill from this american guy that was in the news would be a piece of cake then

And i thought my 7Euro per MB on my o2 contract is a lot on roaming....

Chris

[bbob]

it's a pay as you go sim so you will run out of credit very fast.

but yes the website says 30 pound for 100 kb of data. If these prices are realy it's really a rip off and a good reason why the eu is now also looking into these rates and hpefully they will put a maximum on these rates also.

[Stu]

I've often thought that as this forum talks about prepaid data more and more, that we should come up with a uniform unit of measure. Some carriers charge by the kilobyte, some by the megabyte, and United Mobile uses some fraction of that (e.g. 300 kilobyte). This makes it harder to compare.

I'd like to see something like:

Price Per Megabyte: $6
Method of Rounding: Kilobyte
Base Currency: Russian Ruble

I don't care whether you use Dollars or Euros and I know that it can be imprecise because of currency fluctuations, but you look at list where carrier a charges X euros for every 300 kilobytes; carrier b charges Y dollars for every 1 megabyte; and carrier Z charges Z dinars for every kilobyte. Until you do fifteen minutes of math, you don't have a clue who is cheaper.

[dg7feq]

Originally Posted by Stu

I've often thought that as this forum talks about prepaid data more and more, that we should come up with a uniform unit of measure. Some carriers charge by the kilobyte, some by the megabyte, and United Mobile uses some fraction of that (e.g. 300 kilobyte). This makes it harder to compare.
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Agree.
Especially because sometimes a provider with a lower price per megabyte can turn out to be a bad deal if the rounding is horrible. Especially for mobile application everything above 1k rounding is just a ripoff for the customers.
In germany the providers usually round to 100k now. Check your emails on the move 10 times a day and you use up 1MB of data per day. Effectively you maybe transmitted 25 or 50kbyte during this day...

Chris

[andy]

One simple phone call or email would find out if that is a misprint, and might perhaps instead mean something like 30p/100kB

[soliton]

Just curious, has anyone called/e-mailed Lebara to find out if the £30/100KB is true? Also, does anyone know how to enable GPRS in Lebara? What are the IP/port/user/password settings?