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Does mobile broadband cost more if needed to be used abroad?

// Question by Anonymous: Does mobile broadband cost more if needed to be used abroad? I’m going on holiday to Lebanon in July where I bought a new house, where I initially come from, and I want to buy a preloaded stick with Internet usage. Basically a mobile broadband stick with some preloaded data. If [...]

Mobile Operators Advised to Rethink Roaming Strategy

Mobile phone companies have been advised to give some of their planned global broadband policies a careful and thorough rethink by IT security company, AdaptiveMobile. In an attempt to keep within the new EU regulations, some providers are apparently in plans to prohibit customers from using their mobile broadband to download data while they’re abroad. [...]

The £30,000 Mobile Broadband Bill

Ian Dobsyn, a 34 year old IT worker from Manchester, got a real surprise when he found out he was charged £31,500 for using his mobile broadband connection whilst on holiday in Portugal. The astronomical bill was the result of downloading the Sky TV Series Prison Break and some MP3s. After negotiating with his service [...]

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