[Paddy1]

Other sources are quoting £7,345.69 for 3.8GB of data to stream a football match. That's an insane rate at about £2 per megabyte. I don't know where they were but it should be published because at that charge, even regular browsing could run up a painful bill.

It's hard not to have sympathy as it could have happened to anyone but most of us don't have a departmental budget to dip into and using public money to pay it should not be done.

I suspect he either denied it out of embarrassment or wasn't aware of the cost per MB. I doubt many people would imagine a football match costing anywhere near that. We are all too used to cheap, unmetered broadband these days.