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Article #160Re: Roaming question: When do the charges start?
From: [BnH]
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:34
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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