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Re: Roaming question: When do the charges start?

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From: [BnH]
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:34
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The charges started the moment you are using foreign provider inside your
handset to make or receive audio calls [ not text apparently :)
Vodafone-wise.]

The meter will not run if you do not make or receive a call.
IF the meter runs even when no one using, maybe someone hijacked your GSM
signal.
[ it is very doable over in Asia ]
Better block it fast !

=bob=

"Alan" <thepest1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:35718be1.0301020424.6ce8fe78@posting.google.com...
> 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.
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Subject: Re: Roaming question: When do the charges start?
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