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Out of Plan Charges & Real Time Information
Had a text telling me my bill cap had changed and that I’ve currently spent £1.20 on out-of-plan charges. The text also recommended I check My Account online or the mobile app regularly to monitor my usage and any out of plan spend. As I’ve never incurred any out of plan charges in the two years I’ve been with ID I was interested to find out what they were for. Searching ‘My Account’ and the mobile app I couldn’t find anywhere to see current usage or charges. Eventually I found an old post on here where another user had posed a similar question. They were told that you can’t actually see current usage/spend online or via the app! I find this quite bizarre in this day and age. Other providers have been doing it for years. Anyway, I figured I’d go on Live Chat and get the information from there. What an absolute useless service that is. Here is the transcript: Agent: Kindly confirm how can I assist you? Me: I recently changed my plan. During the change I received a text saying that I had incurred £1.20 of out of plan charges. As there is currently no way of seeing these until my next bill, are you able to tell me what they are for? Agent: Thank you for sharing the above, please be advised that your plan now is £10.00 - UNL/UNL/60GB Agent: and you will receive your next invoice on 11/10/2024. Me: But are you able to tell me now what the out of plan charges are for? Agent: Hi, you've set your bill cap to £50.00. You've currently spent £1.20 on out-of-plan charges this billing month. This means you can spend up to £48.80 until the end of this billing month before you reach your cap limit. We recommend you check the iD Mobile app or My Account online regularly to monitor your usage and any out-of-plan spend. Agent: Please be advised that you were notified about this and you would need to keep your bill cap at £0.00 Me: All I want to know is what the out of plan charges are for. There is currently no way of seeing this via the app or my account. Agent: Kindly be advised that you will receive the invoice on 1/10/2024 it will be detailed and you will need to keep your bill cap at £0.00 so that you will not be charged extra. Me: That's not what I'm asking. I just want to know what the charges are for. Are you able to see this information or not? Agent: Kindly be advised that I'm not able to see the information yet since the invoice is not generated yet. Basically a load of scripted waffle not answering the question I’d asked and then eventually telling me they couldn’t see the information. Is it really true that customer services can’t view my account details and billing in real time? If not, why not?
Unable to make calls or send texts on PAYG
I have an intermittent issue with making calls, which has occurred on-and-off since I transferred my number to ID mobile some years ago. Sometimes, when I try to make a call, I am met with the “you are unable to make calls as you are out of calling credit” message. However, when I check on the app, I still have plenty of credit left (and I haven’t received any recent low balance warning text messages from ID). If I attempt to call 7777 to check the balance over-the-phone, it tells me “we’re experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment and is unable to tell me my balance”.While this is going on, I can also still use mobile data (4G) as normal, except I am unable to use the ID Mobile app (or visit my.idmobile.co.uk) while on mobile data. They only work on WiFi - thus I wouldn’t be able to top up if I didn’t have a WiFi connection to use instead. I contacted the live chat about this today and the rep insisted that my account showed a balance of £0.00 (while the app was still showing me approx. £3.50). However he did suggest the following:1. Airplane mode on2. Remove SIM3. Restart4. Insert SIM5. Airplane mode offThis seemed to temporarily resolve the problem, and I could make calls, check balance via 7777 (with an amount which matched what I saw in the app), and use the ID Mobile app on data, but then this all stopped working only a few minutes later. Obviously popping my SIM every time I want to make a phone call is not a real solution (and I haven’t actually been able to get this to work again since anyway - I think it may have just been coincidence). I have also tried the same sim in another phone (an iPhone 11) but with no change. Is there anything else I should try or is this an account issue on ID’s end beyond my control? I do remember having some minor issues when I first brought my number across so maybe my account was never provisioned correctly in the first place?