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		roywiggins on July 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Uber secretly investigated its legal foes and ... Peak and off-peak are quite easy to predict when it comes to electricity bills. Night is off-peak. A better analogy would be cellphone roaming, if when you placed the call, you were told exactly how much more you were going to pay per minute. Roaming is (and long distance charges used to be) even worse than Uber's surge pricing because you only see the charge afterwards.

dagw on July 11, 2016 [–]

Roaming is (and long distance charges used to be) even worse than Uber's surge pricing because you only see the charge afterwards.

Every time i roam from one country to the next I get a text message telling me exactly how much I will be charged for calls, texts and internet.

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