3.18GB, which is the same as a few video calls or a football match. The real story is how awful roaming charges are.
>The data charges incurred by Mr Matheson, which were due to a failure to replace an old Sim card, included £7,346 on 2 January 2023 for using 3.18GB.
3.18GB is fuck all, EE should be be raked over the coals for charging that.
That’s about £2.15/megabyte.
The two biggest data usage days aligned with Celtic games. And he was initially happy for the taxpayer to pay it. Got to applaud the entitlement.
So many failings here. Why is he using a SIM card that was meant to be replaced a year previously? Why wasn’t it cancelled if he hadn’t replaced it? Why was there no cap set up? Why does someone running a country not understand how WiFi works?
And outright price gouging by EE. How they can allow people to run up those kind of bills with no checks or confirmation that they actually intend to do so is crazy. Who would actually purposely spend that kind of money to access data?
A local SIM card, even a special tourist prepay one, would be around £4 for 5Gb. No way EE’s costs are anything close to what they are charging.
This feels like a Harry & Paul skit, where service providers own a shop called “I saw you coming”.
Looking at the itemised charges how is it that
69MB is free
393MB is £6.00
And 3180MB which is 8x 393MB a whopping £7345 instead of around 8 x £6 = £48?
That’s a lot of pornhub, or whatever it’s called (cough).
if i don’t have a contract and am just on a pay as you go 20 quid package for data, will it cut off and disconnect me once i use it all abroad or will it keep going?
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3.18GB, which is the same as a few video calls or a football match. The real story is how awful roaming charges are.
>The data charges incurred by Mr Matheson, which were due to a failure to replace an old Sim card, included £7,346 on 2 January 2023 for using 3.18GB.
3.18GB is fuck all, EE should be be raked over the coals for charging that.
That’s about £2.15/megabyte.
The two biggest data usage days aligned with Celtic games. And he was initially happy for the taxpayer to pay it. Got to applaud the entitlement.
So many failings here. Why is he using a SIM card that was meant to be replaced a year previously? Why wasn’t it cancelled if he hadn’t replaced it? Why was there no cap set up? Why does someone running a country not understand how WiFi works?
And outright price gouging by EE. How they can allow people to run up those kind of bills with no checks or confirmation that they actually intend to do so is crazy. Who would actually purposely spend that kind of money to access data?
A local SIM card, even a special tourist prepay one, would be around £4 for 5Gb. No way EE’s costs are anything close to what they are charging.
This feels like a Harry & Paul skit, where service providers own a shop called “I saw you coming”.
Looking at the itemised charges how is it that
69MB is free
393MB is £6.00
And 3180MB which is 8x 393MB a whopping £7345 instead of around 8 x £6 = £48?
That’s a lot of pornhub, or whatever it’s called (cough).
if i don’t have a contract and am just on a pay as you go 20 quid package for data, will it cut off and disconnect me once i use it all abroad or will it keep going?