Yes my cell phone bill came out to be a little over 1800 dollars. Has anyone ever had a bill this high? And how have you dealt with it? I'm so used to it being around the $100 area I cant believe it got this high. What would happen if I refuse to pay the bill and cancel my service?
What the hell were you doing with your cell phone? If you refuse to pay the bill and cancel your service you'll get reported to a credit agency, your credit score will suffer, and you'll probably have to pay a nice sum to get out of your cell contract.
why do so many people think that they can just refuse to pay for things and it will go away? anyways, figure out why the bill is so much. Are these charges legit? Talk to the company and explain its never happened and you dont understand why? If you did talk more than usual then admit that but say it wasnt to the $1800 extent.
just find a girl online to have phone sex with, these 1900 numbers are way too over priced man, that is a high phone bill, my highest has been $400
I guess you can't control yourself huh? I'd want to see that I really talked that much first of all, but you were irresponsible enough to do that, so you need to pay it.
Well i have an iphone so I went to mexico last month and apparantly my unlimited internet access fee that I pay a month does not apply everyhwere. I thought roaming only applied for texts and phone calls. Now I need a way out of this mess.
Oh those bastards!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe ask to see it in writing that internet access is also included in roaming!
not to be mean but c'mon you were in a different country you should have known that they'd probably charge you a whole lot more over there. i am not sure how iphone works if its connected all the time. by isnt the iphone wi-fi or were you using their data network to connect to the internet. if you were using their data network then yeah i am not surprised that they'd charge youeven if you live 10 miles away from the border. 1700 (minus the 100 avg bill) more seems a bit excessive, . i am not sure how you would get out of it really. check the contract you signed and see if there is anything in the fine print about international charges and fees, if there isnt you may be able to argue your way out of it to some extent. if there is i'm sorry.
Can't run from it. Find a way to pay it, maybe in monthly installments. Hard lesson but you learned it.
so you're telling us that you left the country and just assumed that your coverage would just extend? c'mon, man...
Call your customer service rep and ask if you were charged per kilobyte. If so, ask if you were charged one hundredth of a cent or one hundredth of a dollar per kilobyte.
let's see, for me to hit $1800 on my contract, I'd have to be overseas calling home at $1.50 per minute. That will still require 1200 minutes of calls? damn dude. to help: tell the company you'll need to terminate your account. They'll forward you to a different dept...a nicer dept. You might get a discount out of them. They'll want to retain you as a customer...they love people who do overrages. Just be nice, curteous and distraught. But stick to your bluff to terminate until they offer help.
The way out is simple. Pay your bill. If you ask, they will probably work out a payment plan for you.
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/36084 International iPhoning Results in $3,000 Bill It was only going to be a matter of time before something like this happened. Someone decided to take their iPhone on a little jaunt to Europe, where he says he underwent "sporadic AT&T EDGE network usage off and on mixed with wifi when available." The bill waiting for him when he got home: three grand. (And I bet it was 40 pages long, too.) Dave Stolte is hardly alone in the annals of absurd, accidental overseas charges, but as more and more people start traveling abroad with their iPhones, cases like this are going to become a lot more common, and fast. The iPhone is a chatty little device, constantly checking the network and calling home to the mothership, and iPhone users quickly get spoiled on its nifty data features, using them constantly to check the web, watch videos, etc. (In fairness: You do have to call AT&T first and ask for international roaming to be unlocked for this to work at all.) Those little charges add up fast. $0.02 per kilobyte sounds pretty cheap, right? WRONG. Do the math: A 1-megabyte web page (a very common size) costs almost twenty bucks to open. 20. Dollars. Whoa. Seriously. (Thanks to Portfolio for helping out with our collective multiplication, and noting that there are various rate plans available, going down to $.005 per KB, which would still be about $5 per megabyte.) So what do you need to do if you're going abroad with your iPhone? Portfolio suggests the same thing I do: Sign up for an affordable international voice plan but disable the data plan altogether. You can still use data services over Wi-Fi, which is free. The inconvenience of not being able to check Google Maps when you're away from a hotspot is nothing compared to a multi-thousand dollar data bill. When you get home, just turn your data services back on. Stolte's story has a happy ending. After wide online publicity, AT&T agreed to waive the charges. As the first to report such a problem, he's the lucky one. But I doubt the next 10,000 or so people to fall into this predicament will find AT&T so accommodating. Don't become one of them.
Here's a tip for all of us to remember... When leaving the country, give a call to your wireless carrier to see what charges you will encounter over the normal rates should you choose to make and receive calls. Also, check on the text and web service fees. Dude... I think you'll just have to pay it out. That stinks... Also, for next time (if you can afford it after this), some phones (even if you have to get a back-up) are unlocked to the "foreign" signals, and you can just insert a sim from a company from the country you are in. A good old quad band GSM on ebay oughtta do the trick.. I know I could give up my bells and whistles on vacation if needed, in order to have a phone. iPhone strikes again! IMO the iPhone stinks altogether.
Well now that I think about it the resort where I was staying at did have Wi-fi available so one could say I was under the impression that I was connected to the Wi-Fi service at all times. But damn this seriously makes me reconsider having an iphone.
Well, your best bet is to contact your provider and speak to a rep about what you can do. Maybe they'll make it a lower amount.....maybe not. You might get to pay it over time in stallments. I heard of a dude who had 3grand and it was waved. EDIT: See in the post above.
