iPhone/AT&T $3000 International Roaming Bill serves as cruel Warning

Bossman

http://consumerist.com/consumer/stic...ing-284555.php

AdmiralAK · 05-08-2007, 15:01

While I agree that prices are too much, and that at&t does not offer good data roaming for the iphone, this guys is not the brightest bulb. He is a web developer and he does not know the average size of an email or website? not even a ballpark estimate? It's like being a car mechanic and not knowing how much a quart of engine oil costs! People like that should not be practicing that profession...

dg7feq · 06-08-2007, 07:46

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Originally Posted by AdmiralAK

While I agree that prices are too much, and that at&t does not offer good data roaming for the iphone, this guys is not the brightest bulb. He is a web developer and he does not know the average size of an email or website? not even a ballpark estimate? It's like being a car mechanic and not knowing how much a quart of engine oil costs! People like that should not be practicing that profession...

yeah, thats what i tought too when reading the article. How naive can you be to assume that a web-designer doesnt know how much 1 kbyte is? LOL

Chris

Stu · 06-08-2007, 13:15

The thing is that he got ATT to eat the charges when he was thoroughly in the wrong. I don't know what to think about that.

If you are using a push email service and the foreign roaming partner rounds per transaction, he can run up a fortune in roaming charges doing very little. Also Google maps uses a ton of data because it really doesn't cache all that much. For foreign trips, take a look at Nokia's Smart2go which has free maps if you don't want direction by direction instructions that you can download to an SD card when you have a wifi connection.

AdmiralAK · 06-08-2007, 14:54

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Originally Posted by Stu

For foreign trips, take a look at Nokia's Smart2go which has free maps if you don't want direction by direction instructions that you can download to an SD card when you have a wifi connection.

Yet one more reason that I choose Nokia and SE phones (well maybe a WinMo phone here and there too

) over the 'embrace + extend' phones (i.e. blackberry, iphone, hiptop). You can easily throw in a prepaid SIM and have TomTom (or some other mapping software).

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AdmiralAK (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Fan Posts: 190 Join Date: 19 Jul 2004 Location: Who knows?! Country:	05-08-2007, 15:01 While I agree that prices are too much, and that at&t does not offer good data roaming for the iphone, this guys is not the brightest bulb. He is a web developer and he does not know the average size of an email or website? not even a ballpark estimate? It's like being a car mechanic and not knowing how much a quart of engine oil costs! People like that should not be practicing that profession... Club Admiralty - website with stuff about me Current Prepaid: None Older Prepaid: AT&T wireless; TracFone; Telestet; Vodafone GR; Fido; SFR; T-mobile US; Tuyo, Cosmote Postpaid: at&t

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Stu (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Guru Posts: 1,091 Join Date: 11 Feb 2004 Location: Detroit (formerly Dubai) Country:	06-08-2007, 13:15 The thing is that he got ATT to eat the charges when he was thoroughly in the wrong. I don't know what to think about that. If you are using a push email service and the foreign roaming partner rounds per transaction, he can run up a fortune in roaming charges doing very little. Also Google maps uses a ton of data because it really doesn't cache all that much. For foreign trips, take a look at Nokia's Smart2go which has free maps if you don't want direction by direction instructions that you can download to an SD card when you have a wifi connection.