Hi Tim Nice summary thanks. Out of interest though. Had you turned off things like Push for email? And did you leave Apps running "in the background". (I know they're not meant to use data,...but I'm still a bit wary of this.) I haven't been out of the country so haven't been able to test it. (Any one want to buy me a ticket to New Zealand for a week so I can test it please??) :))
Any app or service that has to keep a connection open I'm sure must be the ones that chew through the data and cost. Just curious. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** On 26/10/2011, at 10:08 PM, Tim Law wrote: > I've most often seen questions about travelling with iPad and iPhones, so > thought I'd send the group my recent experience which may help someone from > asking the question over again. > > I have just spent a month travelling France, Switzerland, Austria and > Germany. Most of the time we were in France and Germany. > In Australia I have a data plan with Telstra that gives me 1Gb per month. > > /snip > The next morning I got a text from Orange to say I'd got 3€ left. Eeek. I'd > not used the iPhone at all, it was chewing through this data all by itself. > And what's more, part of the place we stayed had good WiFI connection. Part > of it didn't. When my French friend navigated my account usage on the Orange > website, he found a long list of data downloads, each with a flagfall of 50c > (I think), and whilst the data downloaded was minimal, the time was what was > being charged for. This is unlike Australia where we get charged for the > amount of data, not the time. At least that's how my Telstra plan works for > 3G and data. > > Lesson learnt, I turned off both 3G and Data, loaded another 20€ onto the > SIM, and resolved to never turn them on again. > /snip > > Tim > > -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
