Posted by Sam Churchill on December 16th, 2009
Ted Estarija said he was expecting his phone bill to be higher month after adding his son to his Verizon Wireless plan. But his 13-year-old son ran up a cell phone bill of $21,917. The Hayward man said his Verizon Wireless bill soared after his son apparently downloaded about 1.4 million kilobytes of data last month.
A million kilobytes is 1 Gigabyte. His plan didn’t cover data usage, so he was charged by the megabyte.
After initial reluctance by Verizon to dismiss the charges, he pursued local media, and the story was picked up nationally. Verizon now says they will credit his account for the entire amount.
He has also suspended his son’s account.
source: dailywireless.org
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