{"id":10887,"date":"2023-07-25T06:37:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T04:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/bt-gave-me-a-wake-up-call-over-data-roaming-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T06:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T04:37:29","slug":"bt-gave-me-a-wake-up-call-over-data-roaming-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/bt-gave-me-a-wake-up-call-over-data-roaming-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"BT gave me a wake-up call over data roaming charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight on a ferry I spent \u00a335 as my phone downloaded while I slept<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your recent letter about<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2023\/jun\/27\/how-can-bt-be-so-insensitive-to-the-needs-of-my-100-year-old-mother\" title=\"\"> BT<\/a> prompted me to write about my own bad experience \u2013 in this case, the roaming charges I clocked up while asleep on an overnight ferry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We had boarded a Brittany Ferr<\/strong><strong>ies service from Portsmouth to Bilbao late in the evening, and turned in fairly quickly after driving all day. But, unbeknownst to me, my phone was downloading data while I slept \u2013 I think because I had left Google Maps running.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2023\/jul\/25\/bt-data-roaming-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/44b3c8b07736d299afe834a0fd7b85de700b0f85\/0_197_5948_3571\/master\/5948.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=16a55eaad74ee7ad6e9b2050a379bb28\" title=\"BT gave me a wake-up call over data roaming charges\" \/>Overnight on a ferry I spent \u00a335 as my phone downloaded while I slept<br \/>\nYour recent letter about BT prompted me to write about my own bad experience \u2013 in this case, the roaming charges I clocked up while asleep on an overnight ferry.<br \/>\nWe had boarded a Brittany Ferries service from Portsmouth to Bilbao late in the evening, and turned in fairly quickly after driving all day. But, unbeknownst to me, my phone was downloading data while I slept \u2013 I think because I had left Google Maps running. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight on a ferry I spent \u00a335 as my phone downloaded while I slept Your recent letter about BT prompted me to write about my own bad experience \u2013 in this case, the roaming charges I clocked up while asleep on an overnight ferry. We had boarded a Brittany Ferries service from Portsmouth to Bilbao &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/bt-gave-me-a-wake-up-call-over-data-roaming-charges\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BT gave me a wake-up call over data roaming charges<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}