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Man Gets $4,190.76 iPhone Bill

by Terrence O'Brien on August 20, 2007 at 02:24 PM

Man Gets $4,000 iPhone Bill
We love you, iPhone bill. We've already had some great times together, and you've only been here two months. You remember that time you showed up on our door step in a box looking like a copy of 'War and Peace'? That was great. By the way, when we took you out the other day, you looked like 4,190.76 bucks.

Kidding aside, international roaming on your iPhone is a bad idea, in case you weren't already aware. This handheld Mac is big on media features and e-mail, meaning it burns through data pretty quick. Without an international data plan, that $0.05 per kilobyte adds up -- sometimes to over $4,000.

Pierre -- some dude who wrote to Consumerist -- took his iPhone on a vacation through Ibiza, Spain and Europe and managed rack up a $4,190.76 bill, mainly for international data roaming fees. He managed to talk a customer service rep into retroactively giving him the 20-megabyte-per-month international data plan, which dropped the price of additional data down to $5 per megabyte. Pierre's bill was slashed to just $900 which -- come to think of it -- is still insane!

Just remember that your unlimited data plan, on any phone, isn't really unlimited if you use it outside of the U.S. Check the fine print.

From Consumerist

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