T-Mobile UK’s “GB:MB:kB” data itemisation

By on January 22, 2009 in News

I didn’t use 10 gigabytes of data on the 1st of January, did I?

Have a read of my roaming data bill from T-Mobile UK (for my G1) over the Festive period:

That must be megabytes. 10 meg’s worth of data, costing 13 quid, right?

Yeah.

This new way of laying out your data usage is really, really confusing.

Here’s what the billing system said I did on the 1st of January:

000.0010.0204.0277

And that’s formatted thus — GB : MB : kB

So gigabyte, megabyte, kilobyte.

Ergo…

000 gigabytes? Yes?

0010 megabytes. Fine.

0204 kilobytes?

And what’s the 0277 on the end?

0227 bytes?

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  • AJ

    Call me tight if you like but for that amount of money I would expect to see a satellite or an undersea cable with my name on it. There is no set of circumstances I can think of where I would willingly pay that amount of money for internet use without someone holding a gun to my head. And I’m not exactly poor. Haven’t mobile companies heard of the credit crunch.

    I have no problem with the bill layout though. It kind of makes sense actually.

  • http://www.writerslife.net Mark Thomas

    yeh, assume so, perhaps they think its to insignificant to bother giving it a label! :)

  • http://www.writerslife.net Mark Thomas

    yeh, assume so, perhaps they think its to insignificant to bother giving it a label! :)

  • Terimaki

    I dont have this problem on my Account.

  • http://www.t-mobile.co.uk TMUK

    Taken from the TMUK website:
    https://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/going-abroa…

    Surfing the web abroad used to be pretty pricey – but things have changed.

    If you surf with mobile broadband on your laptop or web'n'walk on your mobile in any of the following EU countries it will only cost £1.50/Mb.

    Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

  • Terimaki

    I dont have this problem on my Account.

  • http://www.t-mobile.co.uk TMUK

    Taken from the TMUK website:
    https://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/going-abroa…

    Surfing the web abroad used to be pretty pricey – but things have changed.

    If you surf with mobile broadband on your laptop or web'n'walk on your mobile in any of the following EU countries it will only cost £1.50/Mb.

    Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

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