Buy an iPhone, get $5000 in roaming charges!

[thewayne]

Last month, someone got socked with a $3000 phone bill when they went to Europe. This month, a graphics designer goes to the UK and gets hit for $5K. Here's the beauty: AT&T charges you $2 per MEGABYTE of data transfer! A web page accessed by the iJunk can easily cost you more than $20!

Yeah, I want an iPhone.

Oh, and apparently the bill itself is HUGE: I've heard of bills being more than 100 pages -- and that's double-sided printing! Every time you access data, it's a non-detailed data access line on your bill, even if the data transfer is covered by your contract and there's no charge associated with it.

http://www.arcdesignconsulting.com/iphone_horror.html

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Oh, my! No, I didn't see that! That's what you get when you have executives with no sense of reality or economics. "But we can manage a business! And we have good hair!"

On a related note, once upon a time a tourist, American, IIRC, was arrested at an airport in Germany for plugging his laptop into the wall to charge it. He was going to be charged with theft of utilities. The cops didn't understand that the amount stolen was much less than a penny.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

I suppose now they'd want to charge a euro to do it. :P