On Sep 17, 2012, at 5:57 AM, James Robertson wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:16:54 -0600, objectwerks inc > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It has gotten a little better. It still costs an arm and a leg, but only >> one of each. Before data cost (international roaming) 2 arms, 2 legs, your >> head, and left nut. Which is why you get a local data SIM when you get >> there... > > Not an option with an American contract-registered iPhone 5 with ATT, of > course. > > It's BETTER?
I did not say it was reasonable. I just said it was better, which it is. With AT&T, you can now buy a bucket in the 100s of MB where before it was some ungodly amount PER KB. The PER KB charge ended up being a LOT more than the current bucket prices. I did not say they were reasonable, just better than it was before. I think one of the articles referenced here recently detailed it out. I would never pay the prices they charge you for data but if you need it, it won't be thousands of dollars, just hundreds for "normal" use. Downloading HD movies over cellular is not normal use (I would not even consider it normal in the US at US data prices). > > A correspondent told me he landed at Heathrow with an iPhone set to receive > push notifications via location services). He didn't do anything actively and > remembered to turn off "data roaming" and "Cellular Data" within an hour but > still incurred a bill for a few hundred dollars. That must have been before the changes to the bucket prices. Of course, the bucket prices may be something you have to opt-in on before you get there. I don't know as I have never used them. I have an unlocked MiFi device I bring with me and use it with local SIM cards with my US Contract registered iPhone (AT&T). Chad > The cost for another correspondent whose daughter managed to download a movie > to her iPhone before her parents realized what she was doing was quite a bit > more (of course, it WAS Hi Def). > > > > -- > Jim Robertson > > > _______________________________________________ > iPhone-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
