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24.9gb Remaining / 25gb, yet got an 80% data used the other day

  • August 15, 2024
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My daughter is a big tiktok user, we went on holiday to an EU country, having switched from Sky mobile who introduced £2 per day roaming charges.

 

After 9 days she got a text from ID mobile to say she’s used 80% of her allowance. So she slows down her video streaming use. Then she signs in to her account

“24.9gb out of / 25gb is that bad?” 

“Well yea means you have 100 meg of data left before you are out of data, and you don’t reset for another 2 weeks”

But the site actually says 24.9gb remaining / 25gb which gramatically reads she’s only used 100 meg. Why the text the day before?

She tried chat but 45 mins wait and they didn’t email her despite asking them to.

She’s back home and on wifi and all I can find out is “sometimes the balance on the website/ID mobile app is not accurate”

REALLY?! Surely that should be the most accurate. Tried 7777 but that wasn’t much help either.


Something like data allowance should be the one thing that is accuate within a few meg within a few minutes. How else would you charge if outside that limit?

I asked them to call or email her but they wouldn’t because I’m not the SIM holder, but she turned her data off and got so fed up with ID she didn’t want to speak to them.

**No we weren’t in France during the Olympics promotion.

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Kash
iD Mobile Employee
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  • iD Mobile Employee
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  • August 21, 2024

Hi @Creatureofhabit,

Welcome to the Community!

We are aware that some users are experiencing issues with allowances in the iD Mobile App.

Our Roaming fair usage policies are in place to prevent our free Roaming feature from being misused. Customers who joined iD on or after 21st June 2023 can use up to 30GB data from their plan while Roaming (each month) in our 50 destinations at no extra cost.

I would advise that you contact our Live Chat Team for information on your allowances.

 

Kash


Tyler
iD Mobile Employee
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  • iD Mobile Employee
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  • August 21, 2024

Hey there @Creatureofhabit, thank you for reaching out and sorry for the confusion.

 

The warning text is sent once 80% of the data allowance is used to allow customers to know they’re near their data limit.

 

In terms of the app showing the incorrect allowances, it could be that it takes a little time to update and isn’t instantly showing the correct usages.

 

If your Daughter is the account holder and requires further assistance, please ask her to get back in touch with our live-chat who can raise this to our technical team further if needed:

 

https://www.idmobile.co.uk/live-chat

 

Thank you,

Tyler

 


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  • August 22, 2024

The live chat at the time had a 45 minute wait!!

It’s a simple question 24.9 GB remaining sounds like she has a full quota of data pretty much from the 25 GB she has in her allowance. It maybe that the renewal date was in the middle of the holiday and the 80 GB warning text was for 80% of the roaming 30 GB. She won’t use the chat because she can’t be sitting staring at her phone for ¾ of an hour and currently she’s just switched her data off to avoid additional charges. It’s just a shame there isn’t a number she could call, or an email she could ask an associate to call her back on, one of the downsides of ID Mobile I suppose. If you do start charging for roaming you will be losing 4 customers, and we’ll go back to Sky.


Tom
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  • August 27, 2024

Hi @Creatureofhabit 

 

I’m sorry to hear this, the live chat may sometimes have a wait, for contact, we have the live chat, Facebook, Twitter or here on community.

 

We do currently charge for roaming in certain areas, we have no plans to make changes at this time.

 

Tom


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