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Orange roaming bill highlights data-cost risk
On 2 February 2006, the source described a UK Orange customer who received a large bill after using mobile data while travelling in France. It captures an early mobile-internet problem: small amounts of data could carry charges that were hard for customers to anticipate.
The reported incident
According to the account, the customer used Orange World to view film trailers during a holiday and later disputed the scale of the charge. The report attributed the story to ZDNet UK and said Orange had not responded when the original account was written.
A pricing lesson from 2006
The source described a per-megabyte roaming rate and no warning as the bill accumulated. These were historical tariffs and circumstances, not current Orange terms. The practical point is that roaming data costs, usage visibility and customer alerts were already central concerns as mobile media services spread.