Huge iPhone Data Bills If You Cancel Your International Plan (tsunami)
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One iPhone Atlas reader writes:
After receiving a huge international data roaming bill for my iPhone account even though I had added a sufficiently large International Data Roaming Plan before my trip I was informed by an AT&T service rep that AT&T had charged me the exorbitant per KB rate for international data usage because I had cancelled my International Data Roaming plan after I returned to the United States.
The plan is available on a month-to-month basis, so canceling it when I got home seemed like an obvious thing for me to have done, since I have no plans to go overseas again in the foreseeable future. But the service rep said that AT&Ts policy (unwritten, so far as I can tell) is that one needs to leave the roaming plan in place for 90 extra days, so that it is still in place when the foreign carrier finally reports the subscribers roaming back to AT&T. If the plan is not in place when the foreign data usage gets reported to AT&T, then AT&Ts billing system which was fully capable of charging me for the International Data Roaming service when it was in place is incapable of recognizing that I had an international data roaming plan in place on the dates that the foreign carrier says I used its data connection
AT&Ts 100MB iPhone plan costs an additional monthly fee of $119.99, while the 200MB plan runs an additional $199.99 a month. During the plans rollout, AT&T stated that both could be added or dropped from users existing plans at any time, without penalty.
Arsenal Back On Track While Atletico Chokes
By Martin Sejas
Premier League football was back this weekend and despite the international break, it was a case of deja vu for pretty much all the teams. Hull City continued its wonderful start to the season both home and away to notch up another win against West Ham while Manchester United and Chelsea imposed their dominance in ruthless fashion with thrashings against West Bromwich and Middlesbrough respectively. Arsenal’s poor form also looked like continuing for yet another week until a wonderful second half assured a come from behind victory at home against Everton.
Hull has been the revelation of this season, bringing back memories of Wigan’s sensational start to the season about 3 seasons ago. Just when you thought that the international break would end their form, they won comfortably against West Ham and are starting to look like not getting relegated at the end of the season. I know it’s too early to make such a prediction but one would be foolish to count against them.
The 4 big teams also had wins on the weekend, 2 of them in thrashings and the other 2 in tight and tense affairs. The thrashings handed out by Chelsea and Manchester United emphasises the gulf between the big clubs and the rest in domestic leagues in Europe. I discussed this point and the need to find a remedy to the problem a couple of months back. The fact that Chelsea won this easily with so many first team players out through injury shows the devastating effect of this great financial divide.
Arsenal and Liverpool both had their work cut out as both had to come back from behind to win their respective games. Arsenal looked to be continuing their poor run of form with a very lacklustre and forgettable first half where Everton looked the more composed and confident team on the pitch. A better team would have punished Arsenal with more than a solitary goal in the first half.
In the second half however, the real Arsenal turned up to play, and spurred on by Nasri’s great long range goal, ran out comfortable winners by 3 goals to 1. Liverpool were also forced to play catch up after conceding a early goal in the first half. After 80 minutes, Wigan were 2 goals to 1 ahead and looked likely to snatch victory until Liverpool conjured up 2 goals in the final 10 minutes of the game to take home the points and stay in touch with the leaders.
Meanwhile in Spain, the Madrid derby was the big fixture of the weekend and it didn’t disappoint. There’s a saying that “it’s only over when it’s over”, and this couldn’t be truer for Atletico Madrid. Seemingly destined to fall 1-0 at home to their fierce rivals, Atletico’s Simao scored a goal to bring them level. This sent the home fans into rupture as it seemed that would escape with a draw.
However, the action did not end there. At the other end of the pitch, in the final minute of injury time, Real Madrid got a penalty which was converted by Higuain. The home fans went home devastated, the away fans went home rejoicing. This is the beauty of football where anything can happen in the blink of an eye. It’s for moments like this that millions of fans live and breathe football every day of their lives.
Martin Sejas is the chief writer of http://www.SportsNewsFootball.com, a leading sports news football website known for its fearless and critical analysis of the major issues affecting the beloved game of football.
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