Massive phone bill... for me anyway!

[mak24seven]

For the last 3 years i have been on 400 mins talk time ( orange) with a cheap £20 a month contract, all my monthly bills have been this or a little over 30-35 max, I purchased an i phone in november and had to enter a new contract ( as you do) , more money but 600 mins talk time. Since entering this contract ( bear in mind i now have another 200 mins than before and use the phone no more than i did ) i had my 1st bill of £80 pounds :( followed by the latest at £110 :eek: .
These are all over minuet talk time charges nothing to do with internet or strange 0800 numbers either, just logged into my orange account and i'm trying to go through the pages and pages of numbers :(. Any one else suddenly gone from apparently light usage of phone to having it welded to there ear not.

[est1976]

Just been into the office and apparently I have £40 of data calls from my blackberry before xmas, dont know how that happens when I had the blackberry bolt on with unlimited internet. Then I changed my phone to a Android phone a week before xmas and have just found out there is a large bill coming in now for 3 weeks of data usage as I wasnt on a smart phone internet package :eek::eek: gonna get a earful when that bill comes in lol

[Mslater]

Make sure you lock the phone - apply a pin to unlock it.

My iphone has a tendancy to dial numbers whilst in my pocket if I forget to press lock (off button on top)

[Mart61]

I'm not sure that unlimited internet exixts anymore. From what I understand even those with pre-existing unlimited contracts have fallen foul of the "fair usage" policy and that has, in many cases, been defined as 500mb a month.

[Kwickkwack]

Take em abroad and browse the net if you want to rack up the bills :D

We sent an engineer to Egypt for 7 days, cost us £185 :ack2:

[brin]

[quote=Mart61;588702]I'm not sure that unlimited internet exixts anymore. From what I understand even those with pre-existing unlimited contracts have fallen foul of the "fair usage" policy and that has, in many cases, been defined as 500mb a month.[/quote]

had this happen with my daughters bill so i phoned them up and after a heated debate they reduced the bill.

[stumpe]

I am still on an old o2 contract so unlimited Internet:), on my iPhone at least 3 hrs a day and new bill has just come in for £45 with new vat increase:)

I would phone them up and make sure ur on the right tariff, if not give them what for and ask for compo.

Lee

[squeaky pete]

im on payg on o2, i got unlimited free txts, unlimited internet (500mb) as long as i top up 15quid a month, i also have a blackberry bolt on, so full blackberry service and a further 450mb of internet, it cost me 5, i only pay for calls ;)

[mak24seven]

[quote=stumpe;588732]I am still on an old o2 contract so unlimited Internet:), on my iPhone at least 3 hrs a day and new bill has just come in for £45 with new vat increase:)

I would phone them up and make sure ur on the right tariff, if not give them what for and ask for compo.

Lee[/quote]
They dont make the bill very simple do they ( for simpletons anyway) On a simplistic basis it looks like my phone usage is the same as it ever was but i have spotted something odd about my tariff, i need to nail it and understand the problem because the idiot i rang last night didn't understand my concern about the bill compared to the last few years :boxing_smiley:.