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NoelC
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Am I missing something?

How does a user with a relatively low bandwitch iPhone chew through enough data to result in an $1900 bill at $24.95 for 20 megabytes? That's 1.5 gigabytes of data.

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AT&T iPhone users users who travel Outside the U.S. pay $24.99 for 20 megabytes. In some countries, users can pay between $5 to $20 per megabyte for data.
Even at the extreme of $20 a megabyte they would have had to pull 95 megabytes through their iPhones. What did they do - play YouTube videos constantly?

Something seems rather fishy here.

-Noel


Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA

The article doesn't specify how long the cruise was, but I think a week is a good estimate. This means that we're talking about 13.5MB per day.

The article mentions that the father and daughter each had 2 e-mail accounts set up. (The mother had 1, but the $1900 was just for the father and the daughter.) That's 6 e-mail accounts for the three iPhones to check each day, or 2.26MB per e-mail account per day. This is still quite a bit, but it can be within reason if spam filtering is done at the phone's end. (Not sure how it works with an iPhone.) One virus/trojan attachment and you could easily hit that. (Talk about spam costing the user money!!!)


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