The great data roaming rip-off

Posted by Editor on May 26th, 2010

“Bill shock” is a growing problem for SA travellers. They go overseas, and, before they know it, they’ve run up a bill of thousands of rand — without even making a phone call.

The problem is, as with roaming voice charges, the mobile operators impose exorbitant fees for roaming data — in some cases more than R100 000/GB! And with smartphones, which are constantly polling the network looking for updates to e-mail and other services, consumers can quickly run up monster-sized bills.

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