Story: The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Posted by: Ray Winter (Friday 4 November 2005, 10:55 AM)
The costs of roaming are nothing short of the biggest rip-off of all time, even more so when companies that are owned by a single entity like Orange and France Telecom and Vodafone and Telecel, and charge each country operation as if they are not related in any way, just to wring as much money out of their customers as they can. Equally, there is no uniformity of Services pricing across their operations so again there is absolutely zero benefit to their Network customers.
To beat them at their own game, buy a local pre-pay SIM when abroad and link your handset to the Internet and download all your data by the sync'n'go method because it costs very little to get your emails this way.
Wireless WIMAX is likely to solve most of this problem in the medium term.
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Story: The Great Roaming Rip-Off
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Please tell me that the UK didn't figure this out... Arthur B. -
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I got so annoyed at the way we are... Ray Winter -
Their is another rip to look at here, I was in a c... Dom Bundy
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OK. Enough is enough. If you are fed up with... Ray Winter
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The costs of roaming are nothing short of the bigg... Ray Winter
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