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Man dials up $85,000 cellular bill
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by ppeggy | December 13, 2007 at 08:46 am
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Imagine the look on the dad's face when he opened this bill for $85,000. Piotr Staniaszek is an unemployed oilpatch worker in Grande Prairie whose bills all go to his parents' home. He didn't realize the cost that was piling up when he used his cell phone to download movies into his computer. AARGH!
A Grande Prairie man was hit with a whopping $85,000 cellphone bill this month, after using the device to download movies to his computer.Piotr Staniaszek, who works in the oilpatch, said he should have been warned earlier.
"They never called me when it got up to $1,000 or $2,000 or $30,000," he said.
Bell Canada said Staniaszek's browsing package is meant for Internet and e-mail use on the cellphone only.
The bill has been recalculated using a lower rate, but Staniaszek says he won't pay.
See story, Page B1, December 13 CalgaryHerald
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at 11:25 on December 13th, 2007
A candidate for the darwin awards...
at 13:22 on December 13th, 2007
Hope Bell won't pursue the case too much, it's not worth the bad publicity...
at 13:47 on December 13th, 2007
Why is he surprised? At what point in a mobile contract is it unclear that data transfer has to be paid for? Was he confused by the difference between WiFi and EVDO/GPRS? The fact that he has to plug his laptop into his phone pretty much proves that it's not WiFi...
at 15:48 on December 13th, 2007
On the other hand, would the mobile carrier not contact the customer if an unusually high bill (i.e. thousands of dollars) was in the offing?