Europe without borders? Not to the mobile operators
Mobile operators in Europe love borders, in fact, the more, the better because it’s awfully profitable. Check out this post from Benoit Felten (Your phone bill this month is 46,000 Euros), a story originally published in Le Monde about a French guy who bought a 3G dongle and 95 EUR per month data plan from mobile operator, Orange (France), only to end up with a mobile phone bill that resembles a receipt for a brand new automobile: “The guy lives in Valenciennes, near the Belgian border . . . His first month’s bill was 46 000 EUR. Mind you, that’s only 485 times his nominal fee. How did that happen? According to Orange, he lives too close to Belgium and as a consequence his dongle was connecting to a Belgian mobile network more often than not. Orange, of course, considers itself not responsible for this and is claiming the full bill.”
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