Last week the blogosphere in Russia discussed yet another interesting topic on the famous Apple's device and a huge bill, to one of the participants about a local mobile operators for some international exuberance sent. And since the summer full of holidays abroad in full play is, the story got quickly a very hot, although there is nothing particularly special about it - nothing but the amount of concerned invoice: $17 thousand from a cell phone carrier for a vacation abroad.
The story includes a woman who had a corporate iPhone paid by your employer that used as their only phone and don't think twice to the use if to Egypt for a holiday with her son geleitet.Dort you spent her son about 4 hours mobile play on the device (really, kids love, everyone knows) led for GPRS on arrival receive a huge bill.
But because the phone was corporate and women was tried for a famous (and very wealthy) companies who manage, initiate a discussion with the institution trying to prove that the airline has enabled a service of the mobile roaming without knowledge of the Subscriber.It is a known fact that Russia mobile operators often their prices are abused and roaming is an example of what you also really do not worry, if abroad - buy, and wherever you may be a local SIM card.
Therefore the Subscriber was there the enormous amount not really surprise for many users who often come home with as much as minus $300 on your accounts after using some mobile Internet in the Ausland.Aber in this case has really little chances to win anything at all that the carrier has reminded everyone that on the iPhone you data in roaming in (the feature is disabled by default) must explicitly to activate so that this might not be, an inadvertent use of an unwanted feature - child playing games or whatever it.
So, now claims the carrier that the participants could probably not read the manuals for your iPhone and could simply do not know, that some applications could be on your iPhone connect to the Internet and Exchange data in the background mode - mobile without regard to how much traffic abroad kann.Und are we all once again reminded that read manuals and a habit - to really check the settings should be if you used a complex device such as an iPhone, BlackBerry, Android.
So while my initial reaction was to support the poor Subscriber accidentally has managed to lose $17 k doing something I can do easily in other countries, without knowing it could be expensive, it's now quite obvious again each gadget is nothing but a tool and the user is the only one responsible for uses such as the gadget wird.Und at least this ridiculous story taught us all in Russia one thing: iOS a setting for the exchange of data in General and when in roaming disable also now our mobile carriers actually describe users exactly how you should set phones avoid your smart to additional fees in roaming - and this is has been actually definitely an improvement, total draconian prices.
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