{"id":7471,"date":"2012-12-19T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/holiday-alert-overseas-mobile-roaming-costs\/"},"modified":"2012-12-19T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T05:01:00","slug":"holiday-alert-overseas-mobile-roaming-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/12\/holiday-alert-overseas-mobile-roaming-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Alert: Overseas Mobile Roaming Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-QdOrn8FVhQM\/UNFKL74MuJI\/AAAAAAAAbw0\/nDJzQkLfydk\/s1600\/acma_international-roaming_forweb_761210-795259.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-QdOrn8FVhQM\/UNFKL74MuJI\/AAAAAAAAbw0\/nDJzQkLfydk\/s320\/acma_international-roaming_forweb_761210-795259.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the holiday season approaching, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has advice for travellers on avoiding &#8220;bill shock&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Unexpectedly high bills are easily racked up while using a tablet or smartphone overseas. <\/p>\n<p>With some Australians returning from their travels with a phone or data bill that almost costs the same or more than their whole trip, here are useful tips for travellers before you go abroad. <\/p>\n<p>The ACMA last week released a consultation paper on a draft Standard for mobile roaming that would require telecommunications companies to: <\/p>\n<p>* warn consumers they are roaming<br \/>* provide country specific information about the costs of calls and data use when they switch on their mobile telephone overseas.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the holiday season approaching, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has advice for travellers on avoiding &#8220;bill shock&#8221;. Unexpectedly high bills are easily racked up while using a tablet or smartphone overseas. With some Australians returning from their travels with a phone or data bill that almost costs the same or more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}