Because sending emails home while abroad should be expensive. Now this is certainly excessive, but couldn’t this kid have found some wi-fi? Well, that’s neither here nor there when the issue is that there should probably be safeties on these accounts so that bills don’t go past, oh I don’t know, ten times their normal amount before anyone thinks to call.
Fat chance we’re going to see that happen. After all, this is the company that charged an elderly widow $14,000 over 42 years to rent a rotary phone.
[via Consumerist]












Read the terms of your contract, yo’.
Exactly.
the kid was in canada - International roaming and use 968 MB - almost a Gigabyte of data. Stop lying about this few emails.
He probably was downloading porn - one expensive porn.
Totally not AT&T fault.
Where’s a person responsibility
AT&T will rape you if you’re not looking.