The latest Vodafone news about iPhone can teach you one important lesson. No matter what carrier you are using [AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Movile, 02, Orange etc.] in case you happen to lose your smartphone, make sure you tell your mobile company that your Apple device is missing. Why is it so important?
One Vodafone user was surprised to receive the bill from the mobile operator for around $30,000 [£19,000] because he didn’t report his Vodafone iPhone lost status. 21-year-old Corey Pye managed to lose the cell phone in Ibiza and didn’t contact the carrier at once to tell the gadget was missing. Well, five days later the bill came.
Corey was sure that no one could use the smartphone which was password protected. Still whoever got the cell phone managed to unlock it and talk-talk-talk at Pye’s cost.
When the unlucky iPhone 4S Vodafone user returned home and said he lost his gadget, the company sent him the first £6,000 bill. The second bill showed + £12,500 putting the guy into the lifetime of debt. A week-long trip to the Balearic Island made him poor and everything happened because he decided that password protection is secure enough for avoiding third-party users to take the advantage of the free carrier plan at someone else cost.
Such Vodafone iPhone 4S news upset the guy who says this is his punishment for “failing to report the gadget missing at once.” Corey used to have the contract with unlimited texts and calls, but not overseas calls that actually made that huge bill in the end.
Right now the user is negotiating with Vodafone over the second bill as he is eager to pay off the first one because of the mistake he made before his phone was cut off.
You see that sometimes it is better to own a SIM free smartphone and use local prepaid SIMs instead of a contract, especially when you travel abroad. You can unlock iPhone 6 / 6 Plus from Vodafone UK using factory IMEI service and this is way cheaper than paying your contract carrier for the calls you didn’t make.