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- scrumpy, on 12/14/2007, -4/+145Quote -"Bell Mobility said they would lower the bill to $3,243 in a "goodwill gesture" to match the best data plan available for using mobile phones as a modem, the Globe and Mail reported."
They would have to come to my house and waterboard me for the cash. 28min later, I may or may not pay. - moo113, on 12/14/2007, -3/+116We really need some wireless competition up here. ***** Bell.
- LordSeth, on 12/14/2007, -32/+127They lowered the bill from $85,000 to $3,243 and he still wants to fight it? I think phone companies overcharge at the best of times but lets face they gave him a hell of a good deal and if everyone could fight charges on the grounds of stupidity or not knowing due the fact they didnt read their contract how many would not be paying bills anymore?
- doubleoh7, on 12/14/2007, -2/+89Bet he wishes he didn't download all that porn.
- prettyha8, on 12/14/2007, -1/+44Canada Worse than 3rd World Countries when it comes to Mobile Data Access http://digg.com/tech_news/Canada_Worse_than_3rd_Wo ...
- Chompy, on 12/14/2007, -4/+43With 10 speeding tickets and three at-fault accidents at 19 years of age, the only break that kid should be getting is a break from driving.. forever.
- Unremarkable, on 12/14/2007, -1/+40He regrets nothing.
- nvisn, on 12/14/2007, -2/+38I can hear Jo Pesci screaming: "They ***** you with the cellphones! ***** YOU, ***** YOU, ***** YOU!!!"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dczBvAPvnC0 - AROZ, on 12/14/2007, -0/+32To call a plan "unlimited" that distinctively has a limit just doesn't make sense. If anything, they owe their customers money for this kind of utter *****.
- ibilenjkij, on 12/14/2007, -1/+32RTFA please! That guy had a so called 'unlimited mobile browser' plan and was deceived into believing that he can use the bandwidth in any way he wanted. BTW, according to the 2 out of a total of 3 canadian wireless service providers, the word 'unlimited' has quite a different meaning from the rest of the english speaking world. Rogers, for example, offers you an 'unlimited' package for its blackberry line. But once you cross the 25MB/month limit stated in the very, very fine print (not even mentioned in the advertisement, last time I checked) - you'll find the amount on your bill easily going into thousands.
- idc5, on 12/14/2007, -2/+29Canada pays more comparably to the U.S.? that sucks because it's already grossly overpriced in the states...
- Sroek, on 12/14/2007, -12/+39Do you work for Bell?
- kingmanic, on 12/14/2007, -6/+29If you think that is shocking, this kid has a 104k car insurance.
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.htm ...
Of course he got a break, the actual by the book calc is 122k. - merwin, on 12/14/2007, -1/+23I worked for T-Mobile for 7 years in Engineering (started with them while they were still VoiceStream), and I don't even understand the damn data plans fully. What you can and can't do with the cheap data plan.
- rolf, on 12/14/2007, -5/+26I pay an extra $20 dollars on top of my plan to use my phone as a browser. Unlimited. Nice of Bell to lower it to $3,200 as a gesture of goodwill. I'm shocked they didn't ask for his first born.
- merwin, on 12/14/2007, -1/+22A hell of a good deal? Most companies in America have an unlimited data plan for well under $100.
- Chandon, on 12/14/2007, -1/+19The contract terms are ridiculous, as is the phone company's handling of overage billing. If they're serious about those charges, they should absolutely have called him when he was a couple hundred bucks over the expected bill. More reasonably, they should charge him the $40 that an unlimited data plan costs anywhere else in the world and be done with it.
- Scoobysnax, on 12/14/2007, -0/+18The replacement value for a car is peanuts to an insurance company. They are more concerned with the replacement value of a person. Depending on the model those can go for millions a piece.
- Drood, on 12/14/2007, -2/+19I've just dumped my phone entirely due to the ***** ridiculous charges. Reading this guy spent $150 a MONTH on a ***** phone... If you don't need it for work (and if you do, they should ***** cover it), why the ***** would you voluntarily spend that much on a phone PER MONTH? If you willingly pay that, you're a moron. I mean for that price he could get a couple of hookers to do to him literally what Bell are doing to him metaphorically. And he'd enjoy it a lot more.
- mrferg, on 12/14/2007, -1/+18Well he obviously can't drive worth a damn, has no respect for other drivers and their property and is most likely an immature little prick. I don't see the problem, they are just giving him a not so subtle hint to stop driving.
- Fokma, on 12/14/2007, -0/+16Sad thing is, their main competition is even worse! Rogers charges and arm and a leg for 5 megs of download. It's ridiculous.
- dotlizard, on 12/14/2007, -1/+17well, i do. but it is. for thirty bucks a month i get unlimited data and my phone shares its internet connection with my laptop. not that far-fetched.
- Chandon, on 12/14/2007, -2/+16The phone company basically made up and arbitrary number and said he owed them that much. How is them picking a second, moderately smaller arbitrary number somehow better?
No-one reads these contracts, nor is there a point at which the contracts can be negotiated. Therefore there is a limit on how ridiculous the text of the contract can be. And being billed thousands of dollars when one expects to be billed a hundred dollars over some contract technicality during what seems to be normal use of the service simply isn't reasonable. - m3mn0n, on 12/14/2007, -2/+15Because the one-time cover story in the paper in Calgary summarizes the entire year of news stories across Canada, right?
- Abatrour, on 12/14/2007, -0/+13Bell is supposed to cut off your service if you owe more than $150. How the hell did Bell allow that guy to even get that high period? I think the max he should have to pay is $150 seeing how if Bell cut him off like they were supposed to, this wouldn't have happened.
- aceakm, on 12/14/2007, -2/+14Are you ***** retarded? They should have turned his phone off after it hit a couple hundred dollars past! This is corporate face ***** some lowly oil man. ***** that.
- RawOysters, on 12/14/2007, -5/+16He's right. The guy may well be looking at the full amount if he fights and loses. Remember "Jammie Thomas"?
- Drood, on 12/14/2007, -0/+11I remember a few years ago when Telus did their "unlimited long distance for $25 a month" on their landlines. They pulled it without letting people know, so folk wound up with massive bills. (They tried to charge me over $1000. I told them to ***** off. Even filed a complaint with the CRTC. They wound up waiving the charge.) Their excuse for pulling the plan? "People were abusing it". WTF?! What? So people bought your unlimited plan assuming it would be, oh I don't know, ***** UNLIMITED? What utter bastards, for using the service the way you sold it? Just like their internet service. "Download videos and music" they say. You do, they hit you with account suspensions and overage charges for downloading too much. "Videos music... Download them, we'll ***** you." would be more accurate. Telus are ***** scum.
- inactive, on 12/14/2007, -1/+11you may want to read the article again. This time go slowly, and ask your mommy for help with the big words. The $3243 did not represent the lowest price a competitor offered. It is the lowest price that THEY offered for the extreme use that this moron was using it for.
- xNav, on 12/14/2007, -4/+14He must have been desperate to use the phone as a modem.
- chochazel, on 12/14/2007, -0/+10Clearly ISPs and cell providers should not be using the word unlimited and then putting a limit in it. I say, if a company directly contracts itself this way, the courts should rule on the assumption that the more prominent statement takes precedent. Then we'll see how much longer they use the term 'unlimited'.
- ilves7, on 12/14/2007, -1/+11Why should the company call? It's his responsibility, he signed a contract, if hes too stupid to realize what the terms of that contract are then its no one else's fault except his, I don't understand why the company is getting a bad rap, they decreased his bill by an incredible amount.
- UltraDavid, on 12/14/2007, -1/+10Waterboarding is hilarious! We should totally put it in jokes more often. "Why did the chicken cross the road? So he wouldn't get his frightened ass drowned by evil torturers! Hey-o!"
- LStone, on 12/14/2007, -1/+10This was on the front page of the Calgary Sun (biggest paper in the city) today in huge letters. Under the heading was the line "and it wasn't a clerical error!"
- demonsnake69, on 12/14/2007, -2/+10Mr. Piotr Staniaszek should not pay the bill at all and tell his mobile phone company to go ***** themselves.
- Batiu-Drami, on 12/14/2007, -4/+12Thats over 8 millions US dollars!
- inactive, on 12/14/2007, -1/+9You have to be an idiot if you think the majority of your insurance payments goes toward the possibility or replacing a CAR that you hit. You injure someone and you are paying 3-4 times the value of the car. And that is with a relateively MINOR injury like a broken arm or leg.
- OwlBoy, on 12/14/2007, -1/+9I wonder if it really costed the phone company that much to send him the data…
- 80hd, on 12/14/2007, -1/+8"If he's paid his fines or whatever, then he's got the same right to be on the road that you do."
Whoa dude. Get adjusted. Driving is a privilege. Just like talking - gcnaddict, on 12/14/2007, -2/+9I'm sorry. I'm not paying more than 200$ per month for anything except a 100mbit synchronous FiOS line (and even that's a stretch). In Hong Kong, 300$ a month gets you 1gbit. Why the hell should he have to pay >3k for a slow connection (even if it happens to be mobile)?
I pay 20$ monthly for an EDGE tethered modem via T-Mobile (It's called a blackberry. It bailed my ass a few times) - crazzy88ss, on 12/14/2007, -1/+8It's just you.
- yomamaisfat, on 12/14/2007, -8/+15Damn roaming charges.
- AROZ, on 12/14/2007, -0/+6Actually, someone I know racked up massive roaming charges. He was told before signing the three year contract with Bell that he would pay the same flat $0.30 per minute US travel that Fido had at the time. Conveniently left out was how Bell would add roaming charges. When the large bills came in, the roaming add on per minute was randomly anywhere from an addition $0.60-$1.20 per minute. The contract was canceled, the person wanted to take it to court. Bell just sent it to a collection agency who called with the same recorded message weekly for a couple of years. They never got the money and eventually stopped.
Bell should stick to local landlines. - LordVance, on 12/14/2007, -1/+7But there is a reason most people don't get "caught" speeding 10 times in that short a duration. It is not because none of us speed, nearly all of us do. It is because we speed safely and intelligently; like you said, going even 10-15 MPH over the speed limit on some roads is just the norm... nobody gets pulled over for that.
You get pulled over because you are weaving in and out of traffic or doing something else to bring a lot of attention to the fact. - Speed, on 12/14/2007, -1/+7If nothing else, call him and say "Look, you're at the $200 mark right now, you may wanna back off".
It's just haggling. Whenever you go into a negotiation, if you're the seller, you always start higher than you want to get for it. That way you can come down and the person feels good about it because you did them a favour. - kingmanic, on 12/14/2007, -0/+6me: 13 years driving, 3 speeding tickets, 1 fender bender (my fault).
him: 3 years driving, 10 speeding convictions , 2 fender benders 1 serious accident.
Doesn't seem unreasonable that he pays more. 104k might be excessive. - nastajus, on 12/14/2007, -0/+6Rogers has an unlimited* plan. The asterix says it's up to 25MB.
- XStatic, on 12/14/2007, -0/+6Looks like he had a reasonable expectation to be notified of any excessive charges as he had been in the past. I don't see that he did anything wrog other than be nieve.
I don't think it is unreasonable for phone companies to be required to notify the owner of excessive charges. if nothing else but to protect their customers from unauthorized use just as the credit card companies do. - RockStrongo1, on 12/14/2007, -5/+11"He should just drive anyway"
No - He should take mass transit.
"What right does the government have to say he can't?"
Driving is a privilege, not a right.
"They only have the right because they enforce it with violence - ***** them."
That makes zero sense. - adraft, on 12/14/2007, -0/+5Except it is an interrogation, so they would stop drowning you "b4" you died. The purpose is to get something from the person, not kill them.
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