Tag: CELLPHONEBILL

They pale in comparison to the teen with the $21,000 Verizon bill, but brother and sister Sam, 13, and Sarah Ivanhoe, 11, while on vacation to the Dead Sea with their mom, amassed a cell phone bill that cost nearly as much as their trip. According to My Fox Houston, Cindy, who pays for her kids' phones, received a bill totaling more than $9,700 from Verizon Wireless upon returning home to ...

Verizon, what is wrong with you? You continue to bill customers who are dead and buried, you lie in national advertisements about servicing countries that don't exist, and you harass some poor family for a four-year-old $18,000 bill. Does Blackwater lead your customer service seminars, too? Because, now, one of your reps has been haranguing a man for a relative's $308 bill (not even his own!) and ...

Well, this should delight anybody who has a cell phone and likes to have money (i.e., most everybody). According to The New York Times, the Federal Communications Commission has apparently outlined a plan that would require cell phone providers to warn us of the wacky charges they're piling on us when we unwittingly exceed our plans. The plan was spearheaded by the FCC's chief of Consumer and ...

Share In 2006, Bob St. Germain, of Dover, Massachusetts, renewed his family's wireless contract with Verizon. Little did he know, however, that the apparently innocuous decision would land him and his family in an epic, four-year dispute with the service provider. As it turned out, the terms of the new contract no longer allowed for free MP3 downloads, which were included as a promotional ...

Ted Estarija's Verizon cell phone bill last month might not reach the astronomical heft of the $85,000 charge we reported about a while back, but $21,917 isn't anything to scoff at, especially in these lean times. According to CBS News, the Hayward, California resident was surprised with a bill for more than 20 grand after he added his son to their mobile plan. He thought it would cost a mere ...

With story after story of outrageous cell phone bills, you'd think people would know better. But with online bill payment services, we often only give a quick glance to our statements, enter our credit card information, and never give it a second thought. After reading about the recent troubles of one California man, though, we'll be sure to look a little closer next time we pay our cell phone ...

A couple of very bored Pennsylvania men decided to gun for the world record number of text messages sent in a month, and, over the next four weeks, went about clogging the airwaves with 217,000 SMS messages. The pair, Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were a little shocked, however, when T-Mobile went about clogging Andes's mail box with a $26,000 cell phone bill. Despite having an unlimited ...

We in America get up in arms every time we hear about a waste of taxpayer dollars or abuses by public servants. It seems that Australia is trying to upstage the States when it comes to ethically questionable behavior from public employees. According to the Northern Territory News, an unidentified public servant, who has since left his post, racked up a $200,000 ($135,380 in U.S. dollars) mobile ...