Stacey says while she was on vacation with her family in Cancun for a week recently, she checked her Facebook page from her Evo phone "maybe 5 minutes a day," but never uploaded or sent any photos, "only a handful of texts." Sprint says she managed to burn through either 600 MB or 4.7 GB of data during that period, and now owes them $11,667.73. (Note: Stacey doesn' t specify whether the 4,918,228 kb of data is in kilobits or kilobytes, so I don't know which number is accurate.)
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8 comments:
Yeah rite, I smell BS.
Stacey should leave her phone at home if she's on vacation and especially if she is outside of the U.S. Why do you need to do all that if you're on vacation anyway?
Cell phone companies are the biggest rip off racket since the invention of insurance.
Yea right, i smell dumb student who dont want to pay bill, must have thought that everything in life was paid by daddy..
As long as your phone is turned on (unless airplane mode) you can rack up charges. If someone sends you a text message, even if you don't read it, you will be charged. And if she had signed up for facebook notifications via SMS, I am sure that she can accumulate that amount. I am sure that facebook notifications probably go towards the data download. She might have only checked for 5 minutes, but did she verify that she had disconnected. I know sometimes, I think my phone has disconnected from the web, but it hasn't. That is why when I went overseas, I only had my phone in airplane mode when it was turned on, like someone said I am on VACATION,
You need to make sure you have a global package before you travel.
Probably someone hijacked her phone and ran it up. They have cloners that grab your signal and then use your account, basically clone your phone.
Why do people continue to want to go to these banana republics and then complain when the corruption costs then money?
If you want a worm climate and want to see lots of poor foreign beggars, just go visit Arizona.
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