AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 6, 2008 @09:38AM from the hearts-and-minds dept.

theodp writes "Mama, don't let your babies send e-mail and photos from Vancouver. A Portland family racked up nearly $20,000 in charges on their AT&T bill after their son headed north to Vancouver and used a laptop with an AirCard twenty-one times to send photos and e-mails back home. The family said they wished they would have received some kind of warning before receiving their chock-full-of-international-fees 200-page bill in the mail for $19,370. Guess they didn't read the fine print in that 'Stay connected whether you are traveling across town, the US, or the world' AT&T AirCard pitch. Hey, at least it wasn't $85,000."

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Re:Apple? by garote · 2008-09-06 11:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

[citation needed].
The only article I've seen is one where a (rather irritating) young woman received an iPhone bill with many pages.
Also, why would you expect Steve Jobs to do something about this? Do you expect Bill Gates to refund your money every time your identity is stolen via some Internet Explorer security hole?