atronomical GPRS roaming bill

[harold37]

Hi.
One of my clients received a bill for R80,000 from a local service provider while using his laptop in Israel for about 15 days and only using just over 500mb of data - roaming GPRS (this is not an April fool joke).
Unfortunately this amount was paid by the unsuspecting client.
What are the chances of getting a refund from the Vodacom network or the service provider concerned ?
Below is one of the itemised billings:

19/07/2009 12:56: Roaming GPRS 157854040B R23,484.98 (150mb)

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Roaming is expensive. Even the BBC was warning people not to activate roaming while in China - it was like R500 a MB

 

[Spartaniz]

OMW. thats just sad. OMW- i can only see 1 positive thing out of this situation- telkom is cheaper than roaming.

 

[Ockie]

DATA in Israel.

GPRS charge(Per MB) N/A N/A R 150.06
3G Data Downloads(Per MB) N/A N/A R 173.31

charge guide available @ http://www.vodacom.co.za/services/travel/charge_guide.jsp

 

[harold37]

wow ,,it's cheaper to fly to Israel on a return flight x 8.

 

[VodacomData]

DATA in Israel.

GPRS charge(Per MB) N/A N/A R 150.06
3G Data Downloads(Per MB) N/A N/A R 173.31

charge guide available @ http://www.vodacom.co.za/services/travel/charge_guide.jsp

Hi

This is the problem we faced with people are not aware of the actual GPRS cost in other countries.

Regards
VodacomData

 

[xrapidx]

So you can actually download a car

 

[VodacomData]

China has the worst Roaming chargers

Its cheaper to use WiFi as its everywhere in China

Regards
VodacomData

 

[SlinkyMike]

So you can actually download a car

ROFLLOL!!!

 

[Ockie]

Hi

This is the problem we faced with people are not aware of the actual GPRS cost in other countries.

Regards
VodacomData

As they say...google is your friend...seek and you shall find.

 

[SoTrue]

Everyone: Get the concept of roaming out of your mindset. It is priced not to be used.