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Scottish minister blames sons watching football for £11,000 iPad roaming bill
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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Wow another parent who doesn't parent what their kids do online. And then blames corpos for it, and even tries to get the UK taxpayer to pay for it. Sure roaming charges are ridiculous, but I don't even really ever travel and I know that.
I mean that's pretty excessive. I'm in the US and I get 5GB of high speed data in Morocco and unlimited throttled, and it's only $25 for another 5GB. 11k for 3.8GB is ridiculous.
Is that the cost after you order some extra plan from provider or it would be the price without you doing anything? Asking because my provider charges 0.05 eur per 1MB when roaming without me doing anything, but you can get a plan for 13 eur per 1GB. So it would be 190 eur VS 49.40 eur.
Slightly surprised USA roaming cost is lower either way, I thought you had high cost for limited data domestically when compared to Europe.
That's a complicated question because of "grandfathering." I pay $50 per month per line for my plan, and that includes unlimited high-speed data in the US. My plan would cost $75 per month per line now for the same benefits, but there is a new cheaper plan that does not include the roaming data but it also has "deprioritized" data in the US.
That said, it's still only $35 (I was wrong about the price above, but still not terrible) to add 5GB of international data for a month, even on a plan that doesn't include any. There is never the "pay per MB at an insane rate" option.
Interesting, my plan is cheaper overall, but roaming is more expensive. My unlimited plan for new contracts is 27 eur (29.50 usd), in reality mine gets covered by company and I know that for them it costs something like 10 eur. It includes 25 GB free data in EU.
I hate to justify a corporation's prices for them, but I have to imagine building and maintaining a network that covers the better part of a country the size of the US is more expensive. The US is twice the size of the entire EU and I imagine your carrier doesn't cover the EU directly but has roaming agreements.