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Vodafone: Stop with the data texts and fix the pricing!

Me again. Just a few hours ago I posted the text message that I got from Vodafone outlining their (stupendous) data costs. Well, everything is stupendous, not just the data costs. I just got a new message from the Vodafone server thus:

From Vodafone: To let you know it’s nearly midnight in the UK. If you do need to carry on using data after midnight, you’ll be charged a new daily rate of £3 per 1MB. To stop these alerts, text STOP to 40506 Sent NOV 29 @23:07 UK

Now I appreciate the effort that the Vodafone roaming team has put in to send me these messages. What would be rather swell is some kind of indication that I’ve already been screwed for, say, £20 in data charges. I also have little care that it’s nearly midnight in the UK but I suppose that’s useful for billing period determinations.

This ‘new daily rate’ appears to be the same as the one I was on earlier. I think. But I don’t know. So I am a little concerned as to what’s going on. But all this arsing around with data costs is simply driving me one way: Hotel WiFi. It’s $13/day vs three quid a meg.

If Vodafone sent me a note saying ‘200mb data today for £9’ then guess what? I’d be giving them the cash. Meanwhile, it’s on to the hotel-wide WiFi for me. All the operators are doing with their stupid roaming arrangements is conditioning the majority of their consumers to stop using their services whilst abroad.

Question: Will this still be a problem in 2015? Probably. Sad, isn’t it?

Posted via email from MIR Live

2 COMMENTS

  1. The wording is a bit confusing too isn’t it. Per 1MB per day…. So what happens after the first megabyte? If it is per MB charging, why bother adding the per day bit? Do they really still measure data per MB?

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