Shock at $85k mobile phone bill
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A Canadian man is shocked to receive a $85,000 bill for mobile phone use.
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For the last several weeks, iPhone users have been by turns amused or enraged over the sheer heft of the bills they are receiving from AT&T.
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Rip-off alert will give you a chance to hang up Telecoms regulator Ofcom has ordered that from September, callers to so-called "personal numbers", which start with the digits 070, must hear a warning on the call's cost for free before being connected if the call will cost more than 20 pence.â¦
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120MB a month for Â£7.50...ho hum When Vodafone announced it would be bringing in new pricing on 1 June, a data bundle was mentioned, but no details were to be made available until the launch.â¦
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Unlimited browser plan? Not exactly... A Calgary man who mistakenly believed that a $10 "unlimited mobile browser plan" would enable him to surf the internet with impunity, "downloading high-definition movies and other bandwidth-hungry applications", was slapped with an $85,000 bill for his trouble.â¦
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The Internet phone provider now faces paying out hefty damages and a possible shutdown of its service.
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WASHINGTON -- Sprint and AT&amp;T will be paying a total of $1.5 million to settle with federal regulators. The government charges the phone giants failed to inform potential customers of their rights under federal credit law, after they were denied service.
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MOSCOW : Alarm spread through the investment community in Russia as authorities slapped a back tax bill of almost 160 million dollars (121 million euros) on the number two mobile phone operator Vimpelcom, in what is widely seen as a government-linked
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Cell phone customers are unhappy with unexpected charges for everything from roadside assistance to new handsets--and they're calling their lawyers to complain.
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Auto-dialler programmes have plagued Irish phone users since the beginning of the year. The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) has received some 300 phones calls from consumers regarding excessive
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Piotr Staniaszek normally pays $147 a month for his cell phone. So he was more than a little surprised to learn his November bill had ballooned to $59,000.
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TELEKOM Malaysia Bhd will need to fork out an additional US$344.5mil (RM1.31bil) next year on top of the US$314mil and US$156mil it is paying for stakes in Indonesiaâs Excelcomindo (Excel) and Indiaâs Idea Cellular respectively.
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New low in 'unlimited' definition Orange has launched its unmetered-mobile-data tariff for the UK - but unexpectedly capped it at 30MB a month.â¦
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Free personal and nursing care appears to be costing much more than expected, according to executive figures.
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Earnings from hot new issue Jamdat Mobile don't live up to analysts' expectations.
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MOSCOW Vimpel-Communications, Russia&#39;s No.2 mobile phone company behind Mobile TeleSystems, was hit Wednesday with a surprise claim of $157.8 million in back taxes, prompting fears of another Yukos-style tax investigation.
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The world didn't end and most calls and messages got through, but the high volume of texting and cellphone calls resulted in a lot of bounce-backs. In a real crisis, this could mean real trouble.