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Using mobile data and wifi abroad

gemz4the1
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Everyone on here always says to avoid using mobile data abroad as it is very costly, but silly me I still do not learn. 

I spent over £20 on mobile data in 7 days. 

Hardly anywhere I went to had a free wifi signal.

My apartment had a wifi service whereby you pay 20 euros for 3 days, which I was willing to pay, but when I asked about it, I was told that the wifi was only available in the reception area and not anywhere else in the apartments.  I think that is a bit silly.  I wouldn't pay 20 euros for wifi that I can only use in one small area - I wanted it for when I was in my room or by the pool.

Compare that to my sisters apartment, which was about 5 minutes from mine - she paid 30 euros for 7 days of wifi and she could use it anywhere in the apartments as well as in the pool area and she could use it on her iPhone and her iPad.

I never realised how much data I use.  At home I have a 1GB per month allowance and on the travel bolt on it is £1.99 for just 15MB.  To some people, 15MB is more than enough, but for me, I only sent a few iMessages, checked my Facebook and Twitter and checked my emails and the data was gone.  So I used the data for about 5 minutes and it was all used up. 

Also, I only just noticed that when I add an emoji icon to a message, it changes the character count to almost half and therefore it split up text messages a few times before sending them, so that reduced my credit a lot.

Lesson learnt: next time I will keep my mobile off for my whole holiday and just send basic texts.

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gemz4the1
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I know BoB I was just saying lol.

A few years ago when I was at uni, about 5 minutes from Liverpool town centre.  I had travelled from my house to Liverpool town centre, which was about a 20-30 minute journey.  As I got off the bus I realised that I had forgot my phone so instead of continuing my journey to uni, I got on another bus to go home to get my phone 😞

I can't really complain about the charges because they have reduced a bit in the last 5-10 years.

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As I quite often like to say ,on my days off work I frequent my favourite City Centre Coffee Shop where inevitability I start to people watch.

Shows to me the amount of people , myself included, using a multitude of gadgets as they go about their daily life's.

Sorry went a bit Off Topic there. wink
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And I went from being a person who took a mobile abroad 'just in case'....then got a smartphone and after a while realised the possibilities....

The netbook then followed me abroad...and now ....hey I have a HP Tablet... (I can't wait!!)

Is it any wonder that I now go to Spain and come back without a tan?LOL

It just shows, one is never too old to learn wink

 

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gemz4the1
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It's strange how much has changed from 10 years ago to nowadays.

I always complain to people who are on Facebook whilst on their holidays and I did the same lol

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The problem is that the networks know this and why mobile charges are so high. There is a certain amount of competition in the UK but it seems if you are overseas, you are fair game for these charges.

Thankfully, times are about to change.

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