Costly net surfing overseas....?? PETALING JAYA: A mobile user was in the Middle East for 12 days and was slapped with a RM122,703 bill for data roaming. Another went on a four-day trip to Singapore and was charged RM23,000 for checking her e-mail during the trip. Be careful with that smartphone. Surfing the Internet on your mobile phone while overseas can be very costly. If you are not careful, you could end up with data roaming charges exceeding the price of a car. Even the big names are not spared. One “victim” of excessive roaming charges was Communication and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek, who received a bill shocker after a short trip to Indonesia. “I only used data roaming for a few minutes towards the end of my stay but I was billed RM4,500 for it,” he told The Star. According to the Communications and Multimedia Consumer Forum of Malaysia (CFM), complaints against telcos increased in the last two years, with mobile data charges and data roaming being the main grouses.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:17:29 +0000
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