Has anyone seen or been made aware of a possible problem with ios 6 using stupid amounts of data? I've done a search before posting this and found nothing, so here's my story
Checking my balance last night, i saw a charge of £20 for data. When i looked further, it seems I'd gone over my 1Gb allowance which is unusual for me, as I rarely go over 500mb.
Well, I called Orange this morning and had an interesting conversation.
My billing date is the 10th of each month. It seems I went over my 1Gb allowance on the 13th Sept (3 days) and have been charged £1 a day since then. However- I was in Ireland from the 3rd to the 13th and my phone was switched to airplane mode with data etc also off. I used an old 3GS with an Irish Three SIM inserted for calls and Internet whilst there, so I had no need to use my 4S and it stayed in the glovebox.
Even more amazingly, Orange were trying to say was, from the 13th until now, I'd used a further 4Gb of data!
They acknowledged there was a problem with iOS 6 with mobile data being drained and said they'd refund the charges in full. Apparently, Apple are due to send a software upgrade out to rectify the problem. Until then, I will have to monitor my usage through the settings menu.
Checking my balance last night, i saw a charge of £20 for data. When i looked further, it seems I'd gone over my 1Gb allowance which is unusual for me, as I rarely go over 500mb.
Well, I called Orange this morning and had an interesting conversation.
My billing date is the 10th of each month. It seems I went over my 1Gb allowance on the 13th Sept (3 days) and have been charged £1 a day since then. However- I was in Ireland from the 3rd to the 13th and my phone was switched to airplane mode with data etc also off. I used an old 3GS with an Irish Three SIM inserted for calls and Internet whilst there, so I had no need to use my 4S and it stayed in the glovebox.
Even more amazingly, Orange were trying to say was, from the 13th until now, I'd used a further 4Gb of data!
They acknowledged there was a problem with iOS 6 with mobile data being drained and said they'd refund the charges in full. Apparently, Apple are due to send a software upgrade out to rectify the problem. Until then, I will have to monitor my usage through the settings menu.
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