Taken to the cleaners by Rogers Wireless

[jddphd]

I'm in the Montreal airport for 45 minutes on a connection from the US to Paris and I get a bill for $98 for GPRS roaming for 6 MB of data?

TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS!

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[Cory Scheuer]

and how is that rogers fault? Your carrier charges the roaming fees not the carrier you are roaming on...

[Cory Scheuer]

and from the sounds of it you got off easy... normal roaming data rates are $0.05 a KB, so thats about $52 a MB...

[John Clark]

jddphd,
You've been around here long enough to know that kind of language is not tolerated here. I feel your pain but please keep it clean.

[jddphd]

Sorry John. Figured an asterisk or two would be enough. *&^@#$^&@#

@cory - Facts aside, I still got bent over. I stand corrected.

[mriff]

Man, let the guy rant! (With the exception of the language which I got jumped on a little bit for doing.) This is the rants and raves section after all.

[WFLDEng611]

Somebody is going to have to explain the Rogers thing to me. Every time I talk with somebody who is on Rogers, they pay a jinormus amount of money for everything from data to minutes, wassup with that?

[Sith_Apprentice]

It was international roaming keep in mind.

[blakeatl]

I think it's rediculous how the mobile industry charges folks especially for roaming. Can I blame Bush for this one?

[ndub33]

jddphp- truly rediculous what you got charged-I hope you have contacted your carrier about this and have gotten some sort of satisfaction (i.e; credits) for this.

However-it really wasn't that long ago that roaming in the US could run a buck a minute in some areas-and some smaller regional carriers had their network proactively call your phone with a "wlecome message" to assure that they were getting at least a minutes' worth of billable charges while you were within their purvue.

The industry has come a long way in general regarding roaming changes.

[Berry One]

Originally Posted by jddphd

I'm in the Montreal airport for 45 minutes on a connection from the US to Paris and I get a bill for $98 for GPRS roaming for 6 MB of data?

I would assume your wireless provider is AT&T. Just to have something as an example.

According to AT&T Web Page for International Roaming and Coverage:

All GPRS pay per use rates are $.0195/KB, except in Canada rate is $.015/KB

Now, a simple math. $.015/KB * 1000 = $15/MB. $15/MB * 6 = $90.

This is what AT&T collected from you. I doubt Rogers has much say in this, AT&T charges you flat rate.