A cellphone bill roams to the stratosphere

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: August 27, 2008 3:00:46 PM EDT
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A cellphone bill roams to the stratosphere
LA Times
David Lazarus
Consumer Confidential

Santa Monica resident Aurelie Foucaut traveled last month to Paris  
with her two kids. During a brief stopover in Montreal, she made six  
calls on her BlackBerry to friends and family members, each lasting  
less than three minutes.

Foucaut's wireless bill from T-Mobile arrived a few weeks ago. It  
included $59.77 in ordinary usage charges. It also included a  
$2,367.40 "data service roaming charge" for nearly 158 megabytes'  
worth of Internet access while in Montreal -- the equivalent of  
downloading about 80 novels.

"How is this possible?" Foucaut, 41, wanted to know. "I never go on  
the Internet with my phone. I don't download into my BlackBerry. I  
don't even know how to do it."

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