Bell Mobility Introduces $85,000 Mobile Data Plan
Canadian oil worker Piotr Staniaszek says he "thought there was probably a mistake" when he opened his mobile phone bill for the month of November to find charges totaling nearly $85,000.
Turns out he'd signed up for a $10 unlimited mobile browsing plan, and then had connected his Motorola KRZR mobile phone to his computer and used it as a wireless modem, thinking the data traffic would be covered by the mobile plan…
Bell Mobility says it's decided to reduce his bill to $5,000 as a "measure of goodwill." That's as generous as they can get?
According to CBC News, Staniaszek says Bell really should have given him a warning. "The thing is, they've cut me off for being like $100 over," he says. "Here's I'm $85,000 over, and nobody bothered to give me a call and tell me what was going on."
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