Saint_Michael
Dec 14 2007, 03:29 AM
| | All I have to say thank god I never set up my cell phone like this because damn that is a lot for a phone bill. Of course I guess when you look into using your cell phone as a modem MAKE SURE TO READ YOUR PLAN about how unlimited that plan is and the limitations on that modem as well. Well at least they were nice enough to knock down that bill to $3,400, but of course they are going to fight that as well and it they don't get it lowered anymore he should be lucky that he is not paying the full amount. You know how anal phone companies are about getting their money 
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sonesay
Dec 14 2007, 03:40 AM
Thats very bad lol. I've been charged a few hundred dollars for going for my capped internet allocation amount be before and since then switched to unlimited plans. 85,000 dollars lol thats too much, it just shows how much the phone companies are charging too much for internet acess. Comon 1-2 months worth of interent even over mobile files ending up to 85,000 is rediculous.
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Csshih
Dec 14 2007, 03:53 AM
I'm guessing its the megabyte charge? Some plans charge on a per-megabyte basis. One plan I know is 1 MB = 2$, so If he downloads a full movie DVD, then 4.7GB = 4700 MB 4700 * 2$ = allot of money. more than 1 dvd = allot more money. I remember my first phone bill, it was $300+, turns out that the people at the cell phone store assigned the wrong plan, lucky me 
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lemonwonder
Dec 14 2007, 04:35 AM
It wouldnt take much to spend that much money on one of those plans. 1mb=$2.00 is about right for some, and if you are overseas it can be amazingly big like $5.00 or $7.00 for mb!
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dhruvagupta
Dec 14 2007, 06:06 AM
but still guys 85k dollars is far far far far too much. U can probably go and buy a hell lot of things with that
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A200
Dec 14 2007, 10:19 AM
lol $85,000!!!! how crazy must they be to waste all that on a phone1!! stupid people, why would you use a mobile for a modem?
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budgallant
Dec 14 2007, 09:47 PM
I'm sure he was shocked and surprised to see the bill. Even if you are using a mobile phone for internet, that price is completely unreasonable. I had my own experiences with high cell phone bills, though they were on account of going over on my limited daytime minutes. Yet another example of greedy phone companies taking advantage of people. They charged me 20 cents a minute for calls that could have been free for hours with an extra $5 a month. I thought I had unlimitied evenings and weekends. It turns out I didn't. They were happy to sign me up for it, but wouldn't lower the charges. $1250 phone bill. Cell phones aren't a great choice for communication, in general, it seems. Luckily, when it comes to internet, I get unlimitied browsing for $10, which includes my call display, voicemail, and text messages. Different plans are good for different things. You really need to be careful, and know exactly what you're getting into.
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Plenoptic
Dec 15 2007, 02:34 AM
That my friend is why you can't try to cheat the system. Those who wish to connect to the internet using their phone as the modem should probably just invest another $60/month for a wireless card provided by your cell phone prividor. This is unlimited and in this case can save you thousands of dollars. Good luck to that person hoping to bring down their bill but I think they should pay a lot of that.
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lemonwonder
Dec 15 2007, 04:30 AM
Yeah. In NZ we have Vodems. U just plug em into your computer with Usb, and theyr ultra fast, about $100 to buy and $40 a month... good deal 
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strange-garden
Dec 15 2007, 05:09 AM
That guy must be a total dunce to have to go over by that much. They send you an email and write you a letter everytime you go over your bandwidth. It's 80cents per mb extra if you go over your usage with wireless...That's just crazy to me. At the moment I'm on a 40gig plan and I'm paying the same amount as what I would if I was on a 12 gig plan with Australia's favourite provider. I used to work for a service provider and everyday I'd have people call up with $2000-$3000 bills for that month, begging me to help them...I felt so bad, because it was their fault and I couldn't help them without getting fired. I'd often get yelled at and stuff. =(
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nirmaldaniel
Apr 27 2008, 05:36 AM
poor guy , but now a days all the service providers has a limit for them , so that if the bill exceeds the limit the connection is automatically cut , here in this case that would not have been implemented so only the bill is so high. It is always Good and advisible for all to have a credict limit fixed for their phones inorder to avoid these stuffs..
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krazygoddess
Jan 16 2008, 06:44 PM
Wow 85,000 thats just insane, I'm glad I read this post as hubby is a Truck Driver and has a laptop he takes with him so we can stay in touch better and play games together at night when he is not driving, but he doest always have service where he is at so he has been talking about using his verizon phone to get his interenet, or using it as his modem however that would works, I am not very smart about those kinds of things, But anyway I will make him fiind out all the details and read all the fine print now before he does anythign like that, becaue I would have to kill him if we ended up with a bill like that! lol Anyway im gld to see that the guy got his bill dropped down to the 3,400 I dont know why he would try to fight that, to me that looks like the company is trying to be more than fair, I would be afraid if I tried to fight it and lost that I would have to end up paying more then that. Anyway just my thoughts!
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encryptedwrath
Jan 16 2008, 06:28 PM
QUOTE(Saint_Michael @ Dec 14 2007, 03:29 AM)  All I have to say thank god I never set up my cell phone like this because damn that is a lot for a phone bill. Of course I guess when you look into using your cell phone as a modem MAKE SURE TO READ YOUR PLAN about how unlimited that plan is and the limitations on that modem as well. Well at least they were nice enough to knock down that bill to $3,400, but of course they are going to fight that as well and it they don't get it lowered anymore he should be lucky that he is not paying the full amount. You know how anal phone companies are about getting their money Source Was that actually the full amount? ( sorry , link isn't working). The only way I can imagine getting a phone bill like that is going to america for a month and have left the phone on all that time >.>. But if it was just a common administrative error , than I would assume legal action right away. Things like this are too common. Something in the paper a while ago , these two '' solicitors '' were harrasing a man for a phone bill , with his wife dying and their saying she deserved to. They got a lawsuit. I forget which newspaper though. But still , $85,000 would be almost impossible to tot up on a single cell phone =/
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Liam_CF
Jan 16 2008, 05:31 PM
Ouch, that guy got unlucky.
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Tunay
Jan 16 2008, 01:22 PM
omg! 85k!!! i racked up a $1,800 phone bill with myself alone when i was 16! and you know what my parents did? they broke my $400 phone in half and threw it in the garbage o.o its been 2 years since then and my dad is still paying for that phone bill x-x good thing i'm on prepaid now  and i'm not even paying for that o.o; my bf is! but still i'm glad i have mobile to mobile minutes with my bf since he has the same company as me but seriously its not hard to rack up a phone bill Long distance charges + roaming + browsing the internet on your phone. My phone company charges me per kb!! like its like 1 cent per kb x-x but glad that guy got the phone bill down to atleast 3k! cause thats still an outrageous amount of money 
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