Telstra charges the first month of usage after signing up on a pro-rata basis so if your data contract began only a few days before the monthly billing period ends, Telstra only gives you a few days worth of data quota.
This means even though you may have 1.5GB for a whole month, if you sign up 3 days before the end of the monthly billing period, you'd actually only have 150MBs total available for those 3 days! However, all you have to do is ring Telstra and they will cancel any overage charges and you'll be fine in the future as this only applies in the first month after signing up. This happened to both my wife and a friend who both got overage charges of $50 or more! -Mart Sent from my iPhone On 04/10/2010, at 5:39 PM, Andrew Schox <and...@perthfootankle.com.au> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have had a Telstra iPhone 4 for five days, and got a message today saying > I'd used 93% of my 1.5GB data plan. Previous to this I had a 1.5GB Optus data > plan which I never exceeded in two years. > > My data usage has been probably less than what I usually used on Optus as I > have frequently been accessing the net via WiFi. > > Has anybody else experienced similar issues. I can't believe I've used that > much data in 5 days. > > I'll have to organise to spend a few hours tomorrow getting transferred from > one department to another at Telstra's friendly phone support service... > > Cheers, > > Andrew > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
