How To Rack Up $28,000 In Roaming Without Leaving the US

pmbasehore writes "While waiting for his cruise ship to depart, a man decided to use his AT&T wireless card and Slingbox account to watch the Bears vs. Lions football game. When he got his bill, he was slammed with $28,067.31 in 'International Roaming' charges, even though he never left American soil. The bill was finally dropped to $290.65, but only after the media got involved." He might have left the soil (the story says he was already aboard the ship), but shouldn't the dock count?

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Re:Did His Contract Specify "Internal Waters"?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, the ridiculous part is a guy is on a cruise ship and all he wanted to do was replicate his living room by watching a bunch of overgrown kids in tights tossing a ball around. I don't know, leave the fucking techno-toys behind and relax on the boat??? Get some drinks, mingle with people? Or why pay at all for a cruise? Just stay at home and get all the homo-erotic entertainment you need for free.

why in the name of fuck is this still fucked?

[jollyreaper]

I was actually going to post about the fucking article but now I see this is idle bullshit. Why is this fucking window still scruched up? Why can't they use the normal posting pages instead of creating a custom gimptarded piece of shit for Idle? What purpose could it possibly serve aside from making Idle feel even more useless than it already is?

Fuckitty fucking fuck!

As for what I was planning to ask, "Why the hell are cell data plans so expensive to begin with?" The fucking SMS messages are 20 cents on my carrier. I know the idea is that you're a captive audience and can be fucked as the provider feels is warranted just like they can charge you $8 for a beer in a sports park but seriously, where can we draw a line?