Re: I have been charged £146 for downloading 25mb of data. Help!
 

There is solution to prevent the bill shock due to an unpredictable access to the internet in roaming: Roaming Guard (www.roamingguard.com).

Re: I have been charged £146 for downloading 25mb of data. Help!
 

Aw, that sucks! :( I've heard that many people have been forgiven their large roaming bills. Not sure where. Probably in countries with strong customer protections.

Re: I have been charged £146 for downloading 25mb of data. Help!
 

Watchdog is always a good thing to mention to them.

Re: I have been charged £146 for downloading 25mb of data. Help!
 

Do you really think it's helpful pointing to a S60 application? While it might be nice to know, that there is something out there that might help, it's quite useless for maemo-users.

Re: I have been charged £146 for downloading 25mb of data. Help!
 

There's the O2 Wireless (not affiliated with O2 UK), pre-paid. 14 US Cents per minute, but no GPRS (which is a bummer).

The sim itself's $10USD.

I do agree that there is no nice solution for visitors though. The US is probably one of the only (if not the only) country where ~50% of people use phones that do not use sim cards.

Re: I have been charged £146 for downloading 25mb of data. Help!
 

Hmm, I think you are referring to CDMA providers. (Verizon, Sprint, Metro PCs, etc).

Not me though, I am not on the 50% list, since I hate if I can not change sim card when we travel. One of the reason is to avoid the roaming cost.

Learn the painful lesson when I was in asia and use the roaming US$ 5 / minute. (#@$#@$@#$#@$)

Re: I have been charged £146 for downloading 25mb of data. Help!
 

Boned me too. 300E for navigating with OVI maps. 6E per megabyte.

Message said data link was 6 cents, but the message was split and the second message said "per 10k".

Overall, downloading a part of Greece map was 50M, to a grand 300E. After I got back, they called me (like they didn't know I was back) and "warned" me I was raking in a bill, maybe I want to stop. This was a full week after getting back.

Crooks, indeed. This was Vodafone-to-Vodafone roaming. They go up to 8 or 9 E/Mb. SSDs don't cost that much.

I did have a little fun, however, when I want to talk to the representative at Vodafone (for a different matter) and when I told him "By the way, did you know what Vodafone charges for data roaming?" he couldn't look me in the eye for the entire discussion. Yeah they know they're basically jacking me.

Learned my lesson. Wifi only. Until rates get pinned by the EU for data as well.