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rssfed23

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 5, 2008
94
10
Southampton, UK
Hi guys,

Bit of a weird situation here - I've spent the last month in the USA from the UK, and naturally took my iPhone with me (..although with cellular data disabled and Skype fully updated!)

While out in the states, I Facetimed an American person from my iPhone 4 to their AT&T iPhone 4 - just to see if it worked really as never used the feature before!

I initiated the call using the facetime button while we were both connected to wifi, so by my understanding no GSM call should of been made and no minutes/calling charges used/incurred.

However, upon checking my O2 bill on my return, I see the following:

date time destination country code duration cost
12 Jan 11 13:31:36 07595****** USA 00:00:27 0.180
12 Jan 11 13:31:36 7802091*** USA 00:00:27 0.900
24 Jan 11 23:41:50 07595****** USA 00:00:14 0.090
24 Jan 11 23:41:50 7560895*** USA 00:00:14 0.900
24 Jan 11 23:42:52 07595****** USA 00:00:12 0.080
24 Jan 11 23:42:52 7560895*** USA 00:00:12 0.900

The 07595 number is my own mobile number! - I have never heard of the 7560 number before - couldn't find any reference of the sort in my phone book!

However, those times and dates correspond exactly with when I made a facetime video call, although each time the facetime call lasted many minutes!

My question is if anyone else has experienced similar charges to these? - Also if you look at the 2 different numbers apparently I made 2 outgoing calls at 13:31:36 for 27 seconds at exactly the same time - not sure how that one works!

No other calls appear on my bill (....that's why Skype was invented after all!)

Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts?

Thanks,
Rob
 

jdavtz

macrumors 6502a
Aug 22, 2005
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Kenya
Give O2 a call, their customer services have been decent the few times I've contacted them.
 

Mr Mot

macrumors member
Apr 26, 2010
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To me, that looks like voicemail divert charges..

With your number being one of them and then a number you don't know, being your voicemail box number, that's my guess.

Did you disable VM before you went away?..
 

rssfed23

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 5, 2008
94
10
Southampton, UK
Voicemail direction as in people calling myself?
I didn't receive any calls while away as had call forwarding enabled to a SkypeIn number.

It just baffles me that the calls are exactly the same date and time as the facetime calls are (going by the iphone call history)


I did call O2 - they said they would investigate the issue as they had no record of me making any outbound calls during that time and would get back to me - as the previous poster said they were very helpful and understanding as well!

£3 isnt much, but I will be going away a lot more soon due to work so don't want re-occurrences of it!
 
Nov 6, 2010
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It's the Phone Company

It's the phone company trying to charge you... Because FaceTime can't even work over 3G... so you should talk to them about it. If they do't fix it, they can be charged with over charging!:)
 
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weisjt

macrumors 6502a
Dec 8, 2010
866
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Southern Pines, North Carolina
as far as i know i thought that when you face time it only uses wifi to transmit the video feed while it still uses normal phone services to make the phone call and audio. thats how i thought it worked but i could be completely wrong
 
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