NationStates Jolt Archive


Careful with your cellphone

Melphi
17-12-2007, 01:52
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071214/od_nm/phonebill1_dc;_ylt=AlHb_bdBvDEoMDHhcrNpGT.s0NUE



I wonder what kind of plan it was. It says it was an "unlimited browser plan", but everyone knows unlimited = so many strings attached your better off selling your soul....
SaintB
17-12-2007, 01:55
I have a Sprint plan.. my girlfriend has a Sprint plan.. they claim unlimited sprint to sprint but they really mean within the continental US. My last phone bill was up to almost 500 dollars because we had an hour long conversation after she got out of the hospital in a foreign country.
New new nebraska
17-12-2007, 02:01
I have AT&T.Great service. Don't use the web on it. I f I want music I plug th phone into my computer and file transfer. For free.
Interstellar Planets
17-12-2007, 02:02
Read the small print, folks.

How much porn did that 'lonely guy' have to download to rack up a bill that high, anyway?
SaintB
17-12-2007, 02:03
Prolly quite a bit.
ColaDrinkers
17-12-2007, 02:48
Prolly quite a bit.

Probably not, considering how incredibly slow these cell phone connections usually are. He's likely not even close to my monthly usage. I mean, you want to watch some anime series, add the torrent and put a 2x ratio limit on it, and the next day you've used up 30 gigs, just like that.

We already had a thread on this, by the way. It wasn't very popular. In fact, I think I was the one that killed it.

Uh oh...
RomeW
17-12-2007, 02:51
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=545294

^ This was posted before.

Anyway, I find the bill quite absurd but I blame both parties- Piotr Staniaszek for not properly understanding his contract and Bell Canada for not notifying him when the bill totals became excessive. There's no reason why an $85,000 bill should "fly under the radar" like this did.
UpwardThrust
17-12-2007, 06:32
Mine really is unlimited ... I spent the last year (before 2 months ago) on line for 6 + hours a night playing flash games and posting on the forums from my phone :)

I used to work night security and sat in a van lol
Wilgrove
17-12-2007, 06:44
Mine really is unlimited ... I spent the last year (before 2 months ago) on line for 6 + hours a night playing flash games and posting on the forums from my phone :)

I used to work night security and sat in a van lol

Is this the same van that you LIVE IN DOWN BY THE RIVER?! :p
UpwardThrust
17-12-2007, 06:45
Is this the same van that you LIVE IN DOWN BY THE RIVER?! :p

Yeah I did not hear that one before .... :p we were semi close to the Mississippi there ... half a mile or less
Wilgrove
17-12-2007, 06:48
Yeah I did not hear that one before .... :p we were semi close to the Mississippi there ... half a mile or less

Ah cool.
The States of Eridani
17-12-2007, 06:49
selling one's soul isn't all that bad.
Endopolis
17-12-2007, 07:24
:p What's funny is that I was speaking to the phone while reading this thread
Heretichia
17-12-2007, 10:59
WATCH OUT! Look what it can do to your car!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42579000/jpg/_42579353_cellophane416.jpg

Oh... Cellphone, I thought you said Cellophane... *Wipes glasses*