Telstra Joins iPhone Billing Woes

[kantush]

Looks like Telstra has joined the party. Well they're always the worst one when it comes to billing. But looks like they're topping themselves this time charging an iPhone user $374 for 16MB download. Details here: iPhone Billing Issue. Even crazy for Telstra, ay. Also a petition has been opened if that interests you.

[Linux_insidev2]

LOL

I bet the NextG network allowed the guy to download that 16MB at blazing speeds though!

[WhiteiPhone]

woopy friken doo

[bennettnz]

I finally got my Telstra bill yesterday and lo and behold it was correct. I really expected the worst from dealing with the devil but so far it has been plain sailing.

[bitingmammal]

I think he more likely downloaded around 160 megs because the most Telstra charge is $2/meg.

[decryption]

How is this a shock?
Everyone knew the charges up front. Telstra didn't make a mistake or anything.

[iSilver]

I've done 725MB in less than three weeks! i think much of that was from syncing my mobileme email at the start. Fortunately Optus wont be charging for all this data!

[Mac Ram]

How the fuck can you get through 725mb in 3 weeks? That's 34mb/day. What do you guys do - you must be streaming video or music over 3g

Surely can't be mobileme syncing?

[Chief911]

thats a load of data, DAM!

[Linux_insidev2]

Originally Posted by Mac Ram

How the fuck can you get through 725mb in 3 weeks? That's 34mb/day. What do you guys do - you must be streaming video or music over 3g

Surely can't be mobileme syncing?

I turned on fetching every half hour and found it did a good job of chewing data :/

[Mac Ram]

Originally Posted by Linux_insidev2

I turned on fetching every half hour and found it did a good job of chewing data :/

That'd still be a shit load of email. I get about 50 emails/day at work, so that would need to be an average of 0.7mb per email to chew through 34mb - even my largest emails max out at about 1mb.

I'm astounded.

[leon]

Originally Posted by bitingmammal

I think he more likely downloaded around 160 megs because the most Telstra charge is $2/meg.

Their currently charging me $10/MB because the dumb fuckwits still haven't put me on the $10/150MB even after 3 weeks of constantly calling them to get it rectified.

[mitty]

On the upside, the data snapshot accessible from the phone now appears to be up to date... mine actually shows usage from today.

[Linux_insidev2]

Originally Posted by Mac Ram

That'd still be a shit load of email. I get about 50 emails/day at work, so that would need to be an average of 0.7mb per email to chew through 34mb - even my largest emails max out at about 1mb.

I'm astounded.

It takes data to make the initial connection, and do all the communication not including your emails whatsoever
Especially for someone like me who uses their email with SSL enabled :P