I browsed Singletrack for about 15 minutes on my phone, and got a message saying I owed over £20 in data charges!
HTF can it cost that much, how many mbs can I have downloaded in 15 minutes?
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Three Internet Charges on Mobile
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Where you using 3's network coverage??
If not, welcome to the world of "roaming charges"..
Posted 3 years ago # -
If you don't have any data plan (which it sounds like you don't) then data charges can be rather high. ie. £1+ per MB.
A decent company like T-mobile will give you unlimited data for £5 a month. Not sure about 3.
(btw, UK networks are currently able to support up to nearly 1MB per second download, so you could in theory use quite a lot in 15mins).
Posted 3 years ago # -
PAYG data rates are very high if you dont sign up to them at a previous date. It's in all the bumf for phone contracts. I'm surprised how many 'data capable' phones are sold on non-data inclusive tariffs - it's easy to burn money! though that's what they want people to do...
Posted 3 years ago # -
by PAYG i mean relating to data specifically, not the sim card you have. i.e. you may have a contract that doesn't have data included, and are therefore charged at standard rates.
Posted 3 years ago # -
... AND there's quite a bit of data on STW pages, especially if the thread contains images.
Posted 3 years ago # -
£5 for unlimited surfing with three.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Bugger, 3 charge £2 per mb.
What a waste of money.
It says on their website that 10mb is roughly 1000 mobile web pages, but I suppose that is pages optimised for mobiles and not full of big images.
Posted 3 years ago # -
What Luke said-go to your account on mobie and get the add on!
Posted 3 years ago # -
yeah deffo but it was only a one off and i thought it would be way lower than £5 so didnt bother.
I wont make that mistake again!
Posted 3 years ago #
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