Comments on: Telstra iPhone: $13 per GB or $15,000 per GB? Your choice http://lancewiggs.com/2008/10/10/telstra-iphone-13-or-14000/ NZ Internet, Media and Business Sun, 27 May 2012 02:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andy Saunders http://lancewiggs.com/2008/10/10/telstra-iphone-13-or-14000/#comment-15610 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:23:50 +0000 http://elevatorfactoids.wordpress.com/?p=1108#comment-15610 Hi Lance (long time no see in Sydney).

Welcome to the wonderful world of roaming. I share the pain, but actually disagree with you about the cause and solution.

All carriers do this, they all want inbound roamers, outbound complaints are the price of getting the inbound roamers.

Trouble is, reducing the price will not stimulate revenue/usage. The biggest experiment on this is intra-EU regulation that has (twice) forced down roaming rates. The EU carriers have seen little actual volume increase as a result, and certainly not enough to compensate for the price drop.

I’m self-interested in this, as I’m involved with http://www.vroam.com in alternate roaming provision. So maybe take my words with some reservation, but I think you’ll find I’m right. High roaming data prices are here to stay for a while, I’m afraid….

]]> By: Bob26 http://lancewiggs.com/2008/10/10/telstra-iphone-13-or-14000/#comment-14416 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:00:40 +0000 http://elevatorfactoids.wordpress.com/?p=1108#comment-14416 If you take a more ‘stuff’ oriented definition, some growth never works. ,

]]> By: Kai http://lancewiggs.com/2008/10/10/telstra-iphone-13-or-14000/#comment-11871 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:45:31 +0000 http://elevatorfactoids.wordpress.com/?p=1108#comment-11871 I regularly have the same issues between NZ, AU, Europe and the US. Best solution so far:

- NZ contract with VF on my iphone, occasionally using the SIM in a wireless 3G modem domestically.
- AU prepaid SIM card from 3, they have prepaid 3G braodband (29 AU$ per 2 GB)
- German prepaid SIM card from blau.de – same deal, they have 3G broadband flatrates over there for a fixed price per month.

Give up dreaming of low roaming fees – it won’t happen as there’s no international jurisdiction forcing carriers to offer it. Just looking at roaming between VF NZ and VF AU is a joke.

]]> By: Bill Vickery http://lancewiggs.com/2008/10/10/telstra-iphone-13-or-14000/#comment-11327 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:47:50 +0000 http://elevatorfactoids.wordpress.com/?p=1108#comment-11327 Hi Lance,

I was interested to read your article on $15k/GB for Telstra data roaming. I do the reverse commute, AKL->Sydney once or twice per month. My poison if choice is a Blackberry curve, which I continue to monitor for offline email and sms alarms whilst in Australia. I try to make/take my most of my voice calls on a cheapo Nokia with a Telstra SIM.

I regularly get market promos from Voda when in Aus advising me the roaming data rates are only $10/MB. Woohoo, only $10k/GB. In fact, because I’m on a Blackberry I get charged $30/MB. Why? Because Voda can get away with it. Laying complaints with Voda customer service doesn’t help either. They explain that it is and ask me if I want to raise/escalate my problem to a higher level (response time 5 working days was it?). No-one’s ever got back to me.

Rgds, Bill

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