This months $6000 telstra bill

I had the same problem on my blackberry last time I was in the US but because it's a blackberry you don't have control over the push email and you don't have control over who emails you...my bill was $4000 for a month and there was also minimal phone calls made to and from the phone. Lucky I don't pay my phone bills

very simple............In settings you can turn off data when roaming, as it is turned off by default, why did you guys enable it?

You are correct to a point. The iPhone is not just a phone. It has a lot of smarts built in to keep certain pieces of information up to date. So it pulls data to keep information current and will accept pushed data as well. The phone is designed to work that way. So no user intervention is required, it will just work. The point is that it is easy to use because you do not have to do anything. That is fine until you leave the country or leave apps like browsers running. It is quite possible to get that size bill in Oz and quite a few early adopters had some very big bills. The biggest I have heard of was $30,000 for a month.

There is a lot of information around about the way iPhones and some of the other so called smart phones work. This information usually includes how to minimise the the impact and how to turn off a lot of the functions that run automatically. I was warned about data usage by both Telstra and several people I work with. Any of the quota apps like iQuote tell you how much data you are using so you can keep an eye on it. The iPhone also tracks the amount of data usage and can be reset at any time (settings>general>usage). At $15/Mb, $3000 is 200Mb a week. That is a fairly big amount of data for a phone that is not being used. One of the traps is that people get used to using their phone for everything at home. We have our iPhones linked to our wireless network at home. So when using streamed content it goes to our home broadband account not the phones data plan. The iPhone will connect using the fastest available connection which is usually your broadband at home. Data should be used with care.

Steve

Most data plans charge 1-2 cents per kilobyte for roaming. This equates to around 10-20,000 dollars per gigabyte which is outrageous when they are charging about $10 per gigabyte at 'home'. It's just a rort that they can get away with at the moment but beware!

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Thanks for all the info everyone. She is looking up IQuote now.

She is a wizz with the phone but neither Apple nor Telstra mentioned anything about roaming data usage.

Problem corrected now. Don't want to see anyone else having this drama.

GB your things are made and in the mail.

"Telstra must have had this problem before, as they wiped the bill"

- now where are all those people whinging bitterly about Telstra don't-give-a-damn-about-the-customer attitude.