THE LAST TIME I went to London--for a very energetic Nokia GoPlay launch--my blogging cost me more than $850. In fact, the blogging I did in support of the Nokia resulted in me logging up the most expensive blog post ever in my life. I snapped a screenshot of the details below.
Here is the damage:
The green bands show mobile data services I used while in London when uploading images, downloading audio or making blog posts about Nokia GoPlay. The blog post was relatively inexpensive: EUR 61. But the heavyweight, high resolution images cost a bomb: EUR 348. And the audio files (music from Nokia and podcasts from Nokia) rang in at EUR 199.
Even though most of these charges came from using O2-UK, the O2-Ireland position is that these are data roaming bills and that I must pay the damages. The price difference is immense--nothing to use the data services in Ireland but an arm and a leg to get slower service, dropped connections and high fees when in England.
