iPhone Bill a Whopping 52 Pages Long

PoliTech writes "iPhone bills are surprisingly large - 'Xbox Large', according to Ars technica: 'AT&T's iPhone bills are quite impressive in their own right. We're starting to get bills for the iPhone here at Ars, and while many of us have had smartphones for some time, we've never seen a bill like this. One of our bills is a whopping 52 pages long, and my own bill is 34 pages long. They're printed on both sides, too. What gives? The AT&T bill itemizes your data usage whenever you surf the Internet via EDGE, even if you're signed up for the unlimited data plan. AT&T also goes into an incredible amount of detail to tell you; well, almost nothing. For instance, I know that on July 27 at 3:21 p.m. I had some data use that, under the To/From heading, AT&T has helpfully listed as Data Transfer. The Type of file? Data. My total charge? $0.00. This mind-numbing detail goes on for 52 double-sided pages (for 104 printed pages!) with absolutely no variance except the size of the files.' You would think that a data company would have a more efficient billing process."

Comments

Re:XO communcations

[gEvil (beta)]

Holy shit! If you're receiving bills every month for -$846.52 I think you need to sick a collections agency on their ass!

They want you to know that they know

[tzonic]

Maybe this is a subtle way of saying: yes, we keep track of everything. Your world delivered [to the NSA].

Re:Paperless billing

[sholden]

But who'll be laughing when they have years worth of paper for the fireplace to see out the nuclear winter!

The Truth Comes Out

[AbsoluteXyro]

AT&T hates trees.

Re:Paperless billing

[Anonymous Coward]

Easy: just log into your provider from your iPhone, COPY the personal code it'll give you and PASTE it over the page requesting authentication. BTW: you will need to leave a VOICE RECORDING of agreement, just for legal purporses.

The data is free

[Realistic_Dragon]

But the charge you $15/page for the bill!

Re:Paperless billing

[jb.hl.com]

Somehow, in the event of global thermonuclear war, I don't think anybody'll be wishing there was more fire.

Re:Someone got $3000 bill for using iPhone in Euro

[edittard]

I've seen php scripts that end up #including almost 100 other scripts ON EVERY PAGE LOAD!!!
This is insane.

I agree, nobody in their right mind uses PHP.

Re:Part of the softening-up process

[Belacgod]

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Happens in all kinds of industries.

[Shag]

I had a 401(k) somewhere. I don't remember which investment company it was with, or what former employer of mine it correlated to, or anything. Anyway, I rolled it into an IRA I had, along with some other old accounts. It went well - except for the investment company leaving a balance of about $0.11 in the 401(k) account.

They now spend about $0.75 every quarter to mail me a thick statement telling me whether my balance has fallen to $0.10, risen to $0.12, or whatever.

I realize that informing them would be the merciful thing to do, but my sense of ethics isn't that overdeveloped, so I let nature take its course.

Re:Happens in all kinds of industries.

[Kahm-Hime]

A friend of mine really disliked his former cellular provider, so when he changed companies he overpaid his last bill by 2 cents. He's received a bill from that company every month for three years now, cheerfully informing him that he has a 2 cent credit.

I keep telling him that if he ever moves, he should make sure that they receive his change-of-address notification. :)