$22,000 Phone Bill

[Tommy J]

Teen runs up dad's cell bill to nearly $22,000
HAYWARD, Calif.—A 13-year-old teen was probably in hot water with his father after running up a cell phone bill of nearly $22,000. Ted Estarija said he was expecting his bill to be higher this month after adding his son to his plan, but wasn't expecting a bill of $21,917 in data usage charges. The Hayward man said his Verizon Wireless bill soared after his son apparently downloaded about 1.4 million kilobytes of data last month. His plan didn't cover data usage, so he was charged by the megabyte.
Estarija said after the first media reports, Verizon said they would credit his account for the entire amount.
He has also suspended his son's account.
A spokeswoman for Verizon said the company investigates cases with exceptionally large bills.



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[Over Carl]

I know this case is american but it's the same story here. If ofcom are there to stop networks taking the piss out of us, then why are they allowed to charge such extortionate rates for data downloaded by slightly different ways?

[liveseytowers]

I think O2 charge £1 a day max if you are not on a data plan so that's not too bad.

[Over Carl]

But o2's data network is strugggling due to the data volume it carries doubling every couple of months due to the iphone! Don't know whether I prefer the idea of o2 or 3 for data!