* Posts by Human Writes

2 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jul 2008

Kid spanks a grand on Xbox using Mum's bank card

Human Writes

Perhaps what she should be seeking...

...instead of a solicitor is parenting lessons.

She's blaming everyone else but her own kid.

Holidaymaker gets £31k data roaming bill

Human Writes

Roaming Bill Data (Yawn!)

"Incidentally, if text message can be delivered within minutes between cooperating networks, why does it (allegedly) take days weeks or months for billing info to be forwarded when you're roaming?"

Depends on the terms of the contract between the network in the UK and the foreign network. Roaming billing data is usually batch processed, if the foreign network have a contract that says they'll send billing data to the UK once a fortnight, then by the time they get the data to the UK network for them to analyse it for suspicious usage the damage is usually done.

Very little realtime billing data is exchanged by mobile network operators when your roaming, it's the reason mobile fraud prevention systems don't tend to pick up on suspicious usage or excessive usage whilst your abroad, it's also the reason most networks tend to include a term in your contract about late billing as mentioned earlier.