$4,800 Phone Bill for an iPhone That Wasn't Turned On
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Jay Levy went to the mailbox one day to find a 54-page bill from AT&T covering his family's three iPhones. Now an absurdly long bill printout from AT&T isn't anything new, but this one had a twist. A $4,800 price tag.
What happened? Well Jay and his family went on a Mediterranean cruise not too long ago, and they had their three iPhones with them. Now, they knew if they used the phones overseas, they'd incur massive charges so the phones were turned off for the entire trip. Unfortunately for Jay, that didn't mean he was safe. It turns out that even when an iPhone is off, it downloads email so you have your latest messages whenever you do turn on the phone. So while the phone was "off" it was still accessing international networks for a fee of around $25 per 20 megabytes downloaded.
Needless to say, Jay is not pleased with Apple or AT&T. The lesson here is to make sure you read every bit of the contract and familiarize yourself with the phone manual before you take it anywhere out of network. Who knows what those sneaky little devices are up to!
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Reply #2 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:16 AM
Reply #3 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:41 AM
Jafo has a tool that turns off iPhones.....it's called a 'D9' ....
Reply #5 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:44 AM
The theinquirer report that the iPhone downlods e-mail even though it's off, is false. What most likely happened is they put the phones to sleep, big difference.
Reply #6 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:56 AM
That's an awful lot of emails, to reach $4,800.00 
Surely there must be a setting somewhere on the phone where 'off' really does mean 'off'...
Reply #7 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:06 AM
iPhone users, as a group, are not all that more IT savvy than the rest of us, well, excluding you. You do have an iPhone? I wonder if this includes the Apple family?
And here all the time I thought they were all so much smarter than me.
Okay, just haveing some fun here, this could happen to anyone using any type of service, but it sure does bring a smile to my face. With the hacking of the phone, the big bills from AT&T (paper and money wise), unit cost, makes me wonder if Apple really thought this all out before bringing it to market.
Reply #8 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:10 AM
Apple is selling phones like crazy. They thought it out.
Reply #10 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:21 AM
Even when not photshopped it's a big mother!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_D9
Reply #11 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:44 AM
Word. Stupidity of people is usually to blame...
Reply #12 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:17 PM
Yeah..... the stupidity doesn't just lie in the costs of using a phone over international networks, everyone's know those high prices have been around since A.G. Bell first invented the device. If you KNOW you're going to incur a high cost of using your phone overseas.. leave the bloody thing at home!
Reply #13 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:25 PM
That was my thought. If you can't use it abroad, why would they take it with them?
Reply #14 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:43 PM
I wonder if there is a setting to disable all on-line activities.
Reply #15 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:42 PM
Yes, by shutting it completely off.
Reply #16 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:52 PM
Ouch. Steve-o might want to rethink that.
As an aside (since we are a Windows skinning community
) if you haven't read The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs it's worth a gander. Fake Steve Jobs is one funny guy.
Reply #17 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:00 PM
Apple and at&t are sitting back laughing at all you fools
Reply #18 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:54 PM
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Reply #20 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:48 AM
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Reply #1 Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:45 AM
Yep. Hidden fees are everywhere.