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Insane out-of-bundle costs! 200 eur for 1100 mb!

  • June 29, 2025
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This month I have to work in a place with not good internet, and had to use my phone to get connectivity. I used 1330 MB over the 10.000 MB of my package, and I got a +200 euros bill for that small extra consumption (normal bill for 10GB consumption included in the bundle is 3.07 Euros).

I checked my mobile phone and I see I got alert SMS BUT FROM ANOTHER NUMBER, not “Simyo”, and of course I did not pay attention to it, why would I if I get messages from “Simyo”? 

Why use another UNIDENTIFIED number for this alerts? This makes no sense at all.

Also, this is a brutal cost per unit increase, and I was not able to properly explicitly accept the changes in a clear way. 

This looks like a dark abusive pattern and I am very upset about it. 

I would like to discuss what are the options now.

 

Beste antwoord door Roeqajja

Hi ​@pulvi123,

Thank you for your message. I'm sorry to hear that you incurred charges outside your bundle due to data usage.

We always send warning messages at 80% and 100% usage of your data bundle through text. The text messages are often sent under sender “1200”, which is your provider's standard customer service number. It is good to know that we send text messages under the name “Simyo” and “1200”.

These text messages come directly from the network and are always leading. In the last text message we also clearly indicate what the tariff is from that moment on (€0.15 per MB) and that it is wise to turn off the internet or to buy an internet bundle. From Simyo, we do our best to warn our customers in time. If you have incurred high costs outside your bundle within a short period of time, we block your SIM card as a precaution and send an e-mail about this. We try to block the SIM card from €100, but as consumption is processed with a delay in our system, the charges can exceed €100 depending on how many MBs have been consumed.

We've recently introduced the option to enable a data cap for €0.50 cents per month. I recommend enabling the data cap to prevent this from happening again. We have also created a topic on the forum with detailed information about the data cap.

I understand that you did not make the costs consciously. Can you send me a private message with your 06 number and personal details? I'll be happy to see what we can do for you to resolve this together.

Kind regards,
Roeqajja

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Roeqajja
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  • July 1, 2025

Hi ​@pulvi123,

Thank you for your message. I'm sorry to hear that you incurred charges outside your bundle due to data usage.

We always send warning messages at 80% and 100% usage of your data bundle through text. The text messages are often sent under sender “1200”, which is your provider's standard customer service number. It is good to know that we send text messages under the name “Simyo” and “1200”.

These text messages come directly from the network and are always leading. In the last text message we also clearly indicate what the tariff is from that moment on (€0.15 per MB) and that it is wise to turn off the internet or to buy an internet bundle. From Simyo, we do our best to warn our customers in time. If you have incurred high costs outside your bundle within a short period of time, we block your SIM card as a precaution and send an e-mail about this. We try to block the SIM card from €100, but as consumption is processed with a delay in our system, the charges can exceed €100 depending on how many MBs have been consumed.

We've recently introduced the option to enable a data cap for €0.50 cents per month. I recommend enabling the data cap to prevent this from happening again. We have also created a topic on the forum with detailed information about the data cap.

I understand that you did not make the costs consciously. Can you send me a private message with your 06 number and personal details? I'll be happy to see what we can do for you to resolve this together.

Kind regards,
Roeqajja