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O2 Charge Roaming while in Dundalk!

  • 02-01-2009 04:38PM
    #1
    skywalker_208
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭


    Would you pay roaming charges on a 3G service if you were connected while in Dundalk! O2 seem to think it is acceptable to do this! Excuse given was that I must have been connected to a site in the North!!!

    Anyone have any experience with the likes of this?


Comments

  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Common problem in border areas and also on south cost of England. A failure of regulation.


  • #3
    skywalker_208
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭skywalker_208


    But Dundalk is 10km from the border and there are several 3G enabled O2 sites around Dundalk... so how could I have been connected to a site in the North?

    And why should I pay for roaming if I didnt leave the country?


  • #4
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    data roaming is charged , voice is not . I would email their Irish CEO and complain ...if only about the O2 UK signal in Dundalk :D


  • #5
    c4cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭c4cat


    skywalker_208 wrote: »
    Would you pay roaming charges on a 3G service if you were connected while in Dundalk! O2 seem to think it is acceptable to do this! Excuse given was that I must have been connected to a site in the North!!!

    Anyone have any experience with the likes of this?

    I live in Dundalk and use 02 mobile BB but have never had an issue of connecting on the UK signal


  • #6
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    I would be inclined not to pay it. If only because I have never requested roaming be enabled on my midband account, and if they have enabled it for me, then I wouldn't be paying for it, especially when I wasn't even roaming.

    In settings, you should be able to switch the network selection from auto to manual, in order to prevent it in future.


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  • #7
    Whisko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭Whisko


    Can someone confirm if I will receive O2 UK 3g signal in Dundalk? I'm moving down there and the Irish mobile broadband packages seem terrible compared to whats available in the UK. I'm on Giffgaff which uses the O2 UK infrastructure.


  • #8
    jay93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭jay93


    Whisko wrote: »
    Can someone confirm if I will receive O2 UK 3g signal in Dundalk? I'm moving down there and the Irish mobile broadband packages seem terrible compared to whats available in the UK. I'm on Giffgaff which uses the O2 UK infrastructure.

    Possibly not you would need to be close to the border and even at that you might not be guarenteed UK service here.


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