Scottish MP - £11k iPad bill

[Lottowyn]

Leaving aside the untruthful indiscretions, a person who has a phone or the like dedicated to governmental matters , should make sure he is not compromised by any one else having access. I have no sympathy for this person whatsoever.

 

[Redwurzel]

I ran up £1k on my works phone in Qatar about two or three years ago in about 8 hours. That was only a few Gig. Our travel risk assessment required us to leave data roaming switched on, and work just accepted it.

Probably could have restored the sight of 100 children in Africa for that amount.

 

[Caesium137]

Probably could have restored the sight of 100 children in Africa for that amount.

It's annoying/infuriating for us Ops / field engineer guys. The big owners are 99% UK based and our mobile contract reflected that. But in maybe 75% of the international places we operated, the phone contract international roaming either never worked at all, or it was £38 a megabyte or something insane.

 

[atypical_boro]

Pretty sure my provider gives me free data roaming in Europe.

 

[BiggEggo]

Once had a £6k charge for a business SIM installed on a ship for 2 days data in S America.

Fkr of an acct manager thought he was being kind, calling me at 4pm on a Friday to advise the bill was incoming. Took them another 2 days to cancel it so the charges come Monday were then over £12k.

I offered to pay £50, which was the spend cap on the contract, a control they had forgotten to apply to the SIMs on the account. They were upset, which was sad.

Orrible bunch to deel with.

On the MP... he tried to fiddle it through on expenses. No sympathy for dishonest folk.

 

[Rofesleg]

Pretty sure my provider gives me free data roaming in Europe.

Most do nowadays. But didn't he say it had an old sim which didn't have an updated plan?

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

Surely it must be impossible to get a bill for £11,000 just streaming football matches.
His son would have had to have been watching football 24 hrs per day for weeks and weeks on end.
Something not quite right about this.

He’s been watching Frankie Vaughan

 

[Nano]

Pretty sure my provider gives me free data roaming in Europe.

Most do nowadays. But didn't he say it had an old sim which didn't have an updated plan?

Morocco isn't in the EU.

 

[atypical_boro]

Morocco isn't in the EU.

Yeah I didn’t know where it happened tbh. Pretty sure I’d turn data roaming off I went to Morocco. Pretty clear a mistake has been made and it’s paid back, but it seems like an enormous waste of money.

 

[Boro in Devon]

I dont understand these current IT rules that the government apply.
Why can a child access a works phone/tablet. Surely it should be password protected and no one should have access to the password.
Why do the national government communicate via whats app? Then risk losing communication because they have got a new phone.
I was working in banking and had a strict no phones allowed at our desks, for risking photograhing customer information.
A friend worked at another organisation for the civil service in Cheltenham and they couldnt take phones into the building, they had to stay in their cars in the works car park.