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"Alan" <thepest1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My family's mobile (GSM) is registered to accept roaming and idd
> services and they are away for 2 weeks in China and HK.
>
> And I have been monitoring the phone charges via my local auto check.
> The charges keep on shooting up and its incredible.
>
> My question is when you are login to a foreign service provider, do
> they actually charge you even when the phone is switched off?
>
> I discovered that even when the phone is switch off and when I called
> that number its ringing but of cause no one answered. Do we have to
> pay for phone charges even though they did not pick up the phone?
>
> Any one? Or has our phone been intercepted?
>
> My bill only comes in end of the month. This is the time when an
> argument is inevitable.
Who is your uk service provider? Once a phone has been switched on and is
logged on to a roaming network, it is treated as roaming *until* such time
as it is switched on and logged back on to it's home network. So if the
phone is switched off and someone calls it, it will be billed for both the
redirected call to the roaming network *and* the call back to voicemail. For
instance, on Orange, say someone arrives in Peking and switches on their
phone, then turns it off when they go to bed that night. The phone is now
registered as roaming in China. Someone in England phones them but because
the phone is switched off they get put through to voicemail, for a one
minute call the charge will be UK>China 80p, China>voicemail (in UK) �1.30 =
�2.10 for a one minute call, if the person in China then switches the phone
on, see's they've got a voicemail and picks it up, they will be charged a
further �1.30/min for doing so. So once logged on your better off not
switching your phone off as to get a one minute call via voicemail costs a
total of �3.40! Remember calls both to and from the roaming phone are
charged to that phone!
HTH
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Cheers, Steve.
If The Good Lord had meant for us to be fiscally prudent, He would not have
given us the platinum credit card...
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