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Roaming - £20 for one photo upload to Facebook ... is this normal ..?

Anonymous
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Hi, I wonder if anyone can help.  Recently visited Australia and I was out of credit (through roaming charges again).  I put a £20 top up on at 06:46, went online and posted a single photo and status to Facebook and I then got another message from O2 at 06:52 saying I was once gain out of credit.  I only have a couple of Apps set to use mobile data, no calls were made or received - the only thing was a single Facebook update (admittedly from Bondi Beach) and BANG ... £20 of credit is gone in a few seconds.  Is this normal ...?    

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MI5
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Unfortunately yes
Data abroad esp outside of EU is very expensive. Around £6 mb from memory.
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Hi @Anonymous It would have been very expensive. Australia is a Zone 5 country and these are the costs

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You would have been far better using Wifi and sending pictures via messenger etc etc

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Yeah thought it was £6 per mb 😞
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Yeah thought it was £6 per mb 😞

And obviously I have no need to point out that I was capturing and snipping that image before you rocked up and said one word..:smileywink:

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Link to all International prices here http://international.o2.co.uk/internationaltariffs/travelling_abroad
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That's one expensive Facebook status 

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@Anonymous wrote:

That's one expensive Facebook status 


I bet yours was cheaper than that @Anonymous I seem to remember you mentioning that you had a trip down under not so long back?....

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Woaahhhh.... Turn off roaming lol that's mental!
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It's only a very average 3mb photo......
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