Re:Off means off (Score 1)

(Minor quip: Unless you have a yahoo account and get pushed mail: push email is a sure killer)

Yeah, surely there are some self-serving inconsistencies in the narrative. But this does not change the basic facts:

The problem is that the rate for data is 2 cents per kilobyte, i.e. 20$ per mega. At that rate the front page of the new york times is 30$, and the 20 items of spam I receive daily that escape my mail's filters, at average 20kb each, is 8$ daily. Think about this cost: 2 cents per kilobyte, if you were transfering using a 64kbaud modem, would amount to 9.60$ per minute of communication. It would be 4 times cheaper to pay the roaming rate of 2.3$/minute and connect with a modem!

Also note that voicemail is transferred through EDGE, not through voice...

I went to argentina and got email for five days. 190$ bill for 9MB of data. There is no way to leave the SIM on to receive an urgent phone call, while disabling usage of the EDGE data transfer. Only thing to do, next time, yank out the SIM. Or better yet, unlock the iphone and change the SIM to a local provider. Whatever.