Comments on: Beware of International Roaming Charges, Or You’ll Be Sorry…and In The Poor House

By: TOM

TOM — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:46:03 +0000

UHURA! From Star Trek! I admire you greatly. Your the best actor. I wish you would reply to my comment on your problem with the ‘roaming’. Let me tell you something. My iphone is so bad it doesn’t even work in Europe! I called AT&T and they said they were fixing the network!!!! So, if I was in danger and had to call police or something………… At&T responded : ‘oh well that’s ur problem not ours. Lieutenant Uhura… you probably should like the video I am making on youtube.com about you. Please email me back or look at the video on YouTube and comment it that you saw it. Please promise me! So bye! PS My username for YouTube is Blucz1996 . Thanks From Tom!

By: di gioia

di gioia — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:35:54 +0000

Hi Heric, How have you been? I googled you and thought that this is the only way to get back in touch with you! Hope to hear from you soon Lisaa Di Gioia

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:57:33 +0000

Many others phones have the similar problem and especially blackberry or any device connecting to microsoft exchange.... For instance, I went to cambodia for two weeks with a french phone working on edge. It was not working in Cambodia since onbly GSM was supported....but every 30seconds, my phone was trying to download emails... I received a bill of 3500€ (that is 5000$) for one month whereas I did not download anything ( but at every reach, 200kbites were charged)....

For the Blackberry, it is teh same.

You have two solutions: -call your operator and ask for a foreign datas exchaneg service ( it will divide the bill by 1000 even if it is expensive) -you desactivate the datas exchange (possible via your operator)

It is not specific to iphone. SOme phones have functions ti limit the datas downloaded but on the Iphone, it is quite useless since is was created for illimited datas. Nevertheless, a little add-on on this model, easy to create, could be available in a short time.

By: Trooth

Trooth — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:32:41 +0000

“unexpected international roaming charges”. Why are they unexpected. I challenge a single person to produce a coverage map that highlights any other areas outside the domestic U.S. (AK, HI) or Puerto Rico. You can bet your sweet/dumb *** that Prague isn’t listed. Also, if you “let ‘er ride” and then complain then you deserve come what may.

By: Larry Duane

Larry Duane — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:49:21 +0000

Update: Per Heric’s recommendations, I put the e-mail in manual mode and did not use the other programs for a 14 hour period. there was no data usage during that timeframe. Thus, I do not beleive that there is “data leakage” on the iphone. Larry

By: Larry Duane

Larry Duane — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:37:34 +0000

Heric & Amy, Thanks for the advice. I’ll let you know how it goes

By: Heric

Heric — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:07:07 +0000

tHIS IS JUST CRAZY, NO OTHER PHONE HAS THIS LEAKAGE PROBLEM

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:42:05 +0000

Actually, I’ve heard that even doing what Heric recommends won’t keep it from connecting to the network. I have heard the suggestion that you call AT&T and put your data plan on hold or suspend it or whatever the wording would be while you’re gone. Otherwise, get a cheap AT&T phone and put your SIM card in that. Good luck!

By: Heric

Heric — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:03:32 +0000

Just turn off the mail accounts and do not click on the weather, clocks, maps, youtube,stocks buttons and you should be fine.

By: Larry Duane

Larry Duane — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:24:39 +0000

I am going to Europe in three weeks. Is there a way to disconnect the edge network, while still having the iphone on? Or do I need to keep the iphone in the airplane mode, except when I want to make a call while in Europe to avoid the data billing issue Thanks