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Oliver Haslam

Incredible $13,500 iPad bill racked up as Scottish government official hit by avoidable cellular roaming charges

IPad Air with Magic Keyboard.

One member of the Scottish parliament faces having to hand over almost £11,000 (around $13,500) to pay for an iPad data roaming bill that was completely avoidable.

While we don't know exactly which iPad Scotland's Health Secretary Michael Matheson was using — we're going to assume it wasn't an entry-level 10th-gen iPad and was more likely an iPad Pro — we do know that he'd been told to swap out an old SIM card a year before taking a trip to Morrocco. But for whatever reason, he didn't. And now he's quite literally paying the price.

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