$100 a minute

The HoS reports:

A kiwi salesman was stunned to receive a $1100 bill from for just 10 minutes of access from his laptop.

Michael Crake racked up the charges after using a computer fitted with a broadband device while at airport.

Oh dear. He got clobbered with the outrageous $30 a MB that Telecom and Vodafone extort from users roam overseas.

The price charged is massively higher than that faced by users from many other countries that roam. It has zero resemblance to actual costs.

But putting that aside, my bigger gripe is that the do not do enough to inform people of this charge.

When you roam overseas it should flash up a huge warning that tells you what the cost will be on that network, and require you to confirm that you understand the price and accept it.

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