Vodafone's REAL PAYG 3G tariff?

[email protected] wrote:

>
>I am being charged about 10x more by Voda than their website claims.
>
>I suspect it could be because the SIM card has been provisioned for
>some ripoff Tariff, but I have about 25 emails with various monkeys in
>their customer service, each one pasting answers from a script and
>nobody answering the question about why I am getting the huge bills -
>£100 over 1 week, 10MB downloaded when roaming abroad.
>
>Eventually I printed off all the emails and sent the whole lot off to
>their chief executive; the one with the Spanish name. Of course he
>won't read it, but what the hell is going on?
>
>I could ditch this SIM card and get another one, and get Voda to
>transfer the remaining money on it to the new one, but what the hell
>is going on?
>
>They seem to be charging about £10/MB straight, rather than the £1 or
>£5 per day with a 15MB/day cap which their website variously claims.
>
>Unfortunately I am stuck with Voda because the Thinkpad laptop this is
>used in is Voda SIM locked.
>
>Virgin is half the price, at £5/MB (verified) both UK and roaming, but
>I can't use them in this case. The thing is that if Voda actually did
>what their website claims, they would be very cheap.
>
>I wonder if there is some sort of scam going on, in response to the EU
>pressure to cut roaming charges, but they reduced them only on certain
>APNs?
>
>
>x----------x

Vodafone PAYG charge me £7.50/Mb when roaming in Spain. That's
why I have a Spanish Vodafone SIM card.

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<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> I am being charged about 10x more by Voda than their website claims.
>
> I suspect it could be because the SIM card has been provisioned for
> some ripoff Tariff,

and what tariff have Voda CS told you its on?

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Unfortunately I am stuck with Voda because the Thinkpad laptop this
> is
> used in is Voda SIM locked.
>

Have you tested this or just assume its vodafone locked.
Reason I ask is that we've bought some Dell laptops which come with
Vodafone Sims for their onboard mobile broadband, however you can
actually use any sim you want as long as you know the APN details -
the software only has vodafone presets, but others can be added easily
enough.

Matt