[LINK] Billing cellular sessions by the 1Mb unit.

[Noel Butler]

On 17/11/2013 16:15, Karl Schaffarczyk wrote:
> Dear Linkers,
> 
> I note that more and more mobile providers are now charging for data
> sessions by rounding each session up to the next megabyte.
> 
> This is something which strikes me as unfair - any person who uses 
> their

its how they rake in hundreds of millions

> smartphone in an area with less than perfect coverage can have their
> allowance eaten up or overages skyrocket due to data sessions 
> automatically

yeah, try going from Bribie Is to the nearest "major" shopping hub area 
- Morayfield, only about
a 22 min drive, if you leave data on, you eat about 10 MB in charges, 
without using any data... and that's "each way" not total trip :)

at least on Sloptus it is and adds up - frickin hopeless they are.


> reconnecting and registering as a full megabyte of usage, when only a 
> few
> kilobytes has traversed the network.

try few bytes.