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Comment on The Great Mobile Data Roaming Robbery: How to avoid Telco’s ruining your holiday by Bart Stevens

Bart Stevens — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:49:24 +0000

Wij, iChoosr, zijn de markt (=jullie) aan het polsen of jullie interesse zouden hebben als we een groepsaankoop organiseren voor nieuwe gsm abonnementen.
(we doen het vandaag al voor bijvoorbeeld Energie)

Laat mij weten op bart.stevens@ichoosr.com of als comment in deze post.

Groet,

Bart Stevens
iChoosr

Comment on Why is setting up event wifi such a pain? by Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:17:38 +0000

A little late to the discussion but the reason there are so many failures is that so many people think its easy!

We only install WiFi for events, nothing else.

There are so many issues surrounding bandwidth, Routers, AP’s and users technology that you will not be prepared for until its too late. I totally agree with the “single broadband for 250 users - NO” comment.

There is no discussion about load balancing, Quality of Service, security, isolation.

When you have a conference you employ professionals to prepare the invites, cook the food, provide the AV so why try and install a network on your own - just because it works at home doesn’t mean it will work with 250 users.

If you want something that works then visit us at http://www.maxwifi.co.uk and let us help you.

Comment on The Great Mobile Data Roaming Robbery: How to avoid Telco’s ruining your holiday by Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:54:03 +0000

I had the same Proximus data roaming “bill shock” while roaming in France a few month ago. I used about 20 MB with a very bad speed (only EDGE on country side) and it costed me more than 200 EUR. A Total Rip off ! I was then hoping that the wholesales pricecap imposed by Viviane Redding (1 EUR/MB since 1st of July 2009) would encourage Proximus to lower the data price in roaming.

But today nothing has changed which means that since the wholesales is capped 1 EUR/MB, the margin Proximus is making on Data roaming in Europe is about …. 900% !!! Disgusting, isn’t it ?!

Viviane, please help !!!

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Comment on The Great Mobile Data Roaming Robbery: How to avoid Telco’s ruining your holiday by Mary

Mary — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:41:37 +0000

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Comment on The Great Mobile Data Roaming Robbery: How to avoid Telco’s ruining your holiday by admin

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:18:29 +0000

@alexander: goed om lezen dat de Proximus helpdesk ook jouw roaming klachten in een upselling opportuniteit wist om te buigen en alvast snel credit nota’s opmaakte.

@pascal: 2 EUR/MB roaming bij T-Mobile (Nederland) lijkt me nog steeds overdreven duur in vergelijking met de nationale tarieven (5.000 MB voor 43 EUR/maand -> 0,0086 EUR/MB => nationale data is 233 keer minder duur dan internationale roaming). Telco’s schieten zichzelf inderdaad in de voet en alle dure marketing campagnes ten spijt, blijft dat aan hun imago plakken.

Comment on The Great Mobile Data Roaming Robbery: How to avoid Telco’s ruining your holiday by Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:41:05 +0000

Dag Toon,

Ik heb het zelfde probleem gehad met Proximus. Opeens ook 500€ erbij wegens gebruik van Google maps in Oslo. Ben er wel in geslaagd het om te buigen onder belofte dat ik Blackberry world optie erbij neem aan 20€/maand. Geeft me recht op 100Mb per maand buiten Belgie. Is ruim voldoende.

Mijn ervaring is dat klantendienst van PX redelijk flexibel is in die zaken. Allé, als je de juiste argumenten gebruikt natuurlijk he

Comment on The Great Mobile Data Roaming Robbery: How to avoid Telco’s ruining your holiday by Pascal

Pascal — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:24:50 +0000

Just a few experiences with the iPhone subscription package in the Netherlands:

- the tariff for data roaming is 2â�¬/MB. However, T-Mobile didn’t have all its systems ready for the iPhone introduction, so those first few months you still got billed 10â�¬/MB, the standard rate for the normal T-Mobile contracts … they reimbursed customers meanwhile _regardless_ of the mobile operator you used abroad!
(See blog post in Dutch http://weblog.vanhecke.info/t-mobile-rekent-5-maal-te-veel-aan-voor-iphone-data-roaming-in-buitenland/)

- iPhones have a simple “Data Roaming” setting. Which is default off. So the device doesn’t switch to 3G from wifi inadvertently. Whatever app you’re using.

- Because I have the feeling I am under control, I _do_ use roaming from time to time when checking email abroad - (attachments and long mails are not downloaded automatically, so that’s pretty safe). Still less hassle than paying for hotel wifi, or a separate data contract with a local telco. With this lack of transparancy, mobile operators are shooting themselves in the foot in the long term.

Comment on The Great Mobile Data Roaming Robbery: How to avoid Telco’s ruining your holiday by Dan Waldron

Dan Waldron — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:15:13 +0000

I finally decided to write a comment on your blog. I just wanted to say good job. I really enjoy reading your posts.

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JamesD — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:53:52 +0000

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