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Four Episodes of Friends Cost One Man $22,000
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| leph555 |
| quote: | The wife of a city executive cost her husband £11,000 after she downloaded four episodes of the sitcom Friends through his mobile phone while abroad.
The woman used the broadband package on his Vodafone mobile phone to order the programmes, which would have been free had the download taken place in Britain.
However, her husband flew to Germany on business while the download was still in progress and it resumed after he touched down, incurring the massive fees.
The pair, who have not been named, discovered the unwelcome bill after the executive arrived back in the UK and Vodafone called his firm to alert him.
Ed Richards, the chief executive of industry regulator Ofcom, said it would investigate the huge fee.
He said: "We will be looking to take action."
The news came as European Commission officials prepare to take action against mobile phone providers who make "unjustified" charges.
Viviane Reding, the European Union commissioner for information, society and media, has given phone companies until July 1 to cut their fees for downloading data and texting while abroad.
She said: "Sending a text message or downloading data in another country should not be substantially more expensive than at home.
"Higher retail charges abroad must be justified or they will have to disappear."
This is not the first time Vodafone downloads abroad have cost the unsuspecting user thousands of pounds. Company director Ray Elmitt, 63, got a bill for £1,150 after using his phone's broadband internet connection in Spain to connect to his company's website for an hour.
Mr Elmitt, of Hampton Wick, in Surrey, said: "It really annoyed me because I think most people would treat mobile broadband as they would their home or work-based broadband and not worry about download limits."
The debate on the cost of data transfer on mobile phones abroad has become more heated as new technology makes internet access faster and more reliable.
A spokesman for Vodafone said the firm informed customers of the charges and alerted people who exceeded their quota in Britain. However, he acknowledged it took longer to alert customers overseas. |
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| Ted Promo |
| I knew Courtney Cox was a whore. You'd have thought a name like that would have been a dead giveaway. |
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| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ted Promo
I knew Courtney Cox was a whore. You'd have thought a name like that would have been a dead giveaway. |
I thought she was a tranny. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
I thought she was a tranny. |
Yeah but all trannies are whores, so you're not entirely mistaken. |
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| jdat |
giggles hahaa
did he smack the shyt outta his wife when he got home?
and it's so true that roaming charges for data are insanely high in europe.
They recently regulated the phone roaming charges and they are pretty bareable but data is insane.
Back in november I paid 30 euros ( 45 dollars ) for data roaming of 3 megs!
Gah I was so pissed off when I got the bill but it was my own damn fault I guess :( |
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| ScuL |
the current rate for most roaming data services in Europe is 17,50 euro (26$) per megabyte.
a crazy amount. in most countries you can get a monthly ADSL subscription for that money.
however it means that if u live at the border of Germany and Belgium for instance and accidentally roam on the neighboring countries network you get to pay that fee.
the EU is looking into setting a limit on the price per megabyte of no more than 7,50 euro (11$). but that is still an insane amount imo. |
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| Ania_xox |
Smelly Cat
Sme-lly Cat
What are they feeding you???
Smelly Cat
Sme-lly Cat
IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT :crazy: |
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| lacksesepsotygh |
| would have been worth it, if it was seinfeld. |
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