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Ian	Sep 6 2008, 07:10 AM
Administrator Posts: 536 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: June 4, 2007	It's D-I-S-gusting that no spending limits are set on accounts for international data, especially residential account where people just can't afford to pay such a ridiculous amount for their service. Heck, I thought it was disgusting when my aunt got a $250 cellular bill or two from then-Cingular (she's now with Alltel and most of her calls are "my circle" minutes) due to getting absolutely violated by overage charges. I don't go anywhere near my minute allotment per month (I use my phone mostly for data and text) but if I did go over I'm relatively safe; my plan (Fair & Flexible) gives me 30 minutes at a time for $5 at a time, unless I go WAY over and it just charges extra minutes at 20c apiece. Prepaid phones are admittedly cheaper for voice calling at this point but at least I'm not being done injustice by way of hefty overages. My cellular bill has actually gone down of late it seems...I may need to call or chat with Sprint to add back my phone insurance. Guess my phone went wacko a few too many times (hey, not my fault that smartphone quality control is subpar) and my $7 for insurance just wasn't cutting it. So at the moment my billis less than $40 a month, and insternational dialing is turned off so no profit center for Sprint there. Also, data is only a few cents per kilobyte while roaming as far as I know, and I just wouldn't use my phone for that sorta thing if I did get into Canada (which I won't be doing any time soon I don't think). I heard that the people in question were using an aircard for data...aren't those supposed to be CHEAPER for this sort of thing than, say, a regular cell phone? Nevermind, cell phone companies tend to have neither morals nor brains.


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