Colin of Brisbane has had a nasty experience with a large telco through their outrageous policies with Smartphone data usage charges. Read on and be forewarned -
We routinely manage our girls mobile phone usage by allowing them a prepaid limit each month. We bought our eldest girl one of the recent http:\\CatchOTheDay.com.au LQ smartphones with the intent of her using the web facilities only through Wifi. On inserting the prepaid SIM and before we figured out how to turn off 3G-data, by simply loading a Welcome website, this used 560kb data, *** BARELY HALF A MEGABYTE *** ... for that luxury - Telstra ripped us off $12.32!
That is INSANE daylight robbery! I can get an entire 1GB data block for $15 or 5GB from my landline ISP for the same amount!
