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Man
Is Billed $62K By Cell Company To Download Wall-E. Realizing
How
Embarrassing This Is, They Reduced It
To $17K
That bunch of Verizon workers who
follow that guy around
in the commercials? It's not what you think. They
want his
wallet
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So, you purchase a data card for your laptop that gets you access to
the cellphone network and you decide to download a movie. You
figure that whilst it will probably be pricey, it's not like
it's
going to cost hundreds of dollars. And you'd be right, of
course.
It will cost you thousands of dollars.
Sixty-two
thousand dollars, actually, if you do it from another country.
Pictured here is a man
hastily avoiding the Verizon network people who are following him
around to grab his wallet |
The phone company says it cost them $17K to download the movie.
In
all fairness to Verizon, the article doesn't mention the actual phone
company, although it could very well be Verizon, because they all
charge these same outrageous rates. And, yes, it
isn't the
cost of the movie, per se, but the cost of the time on the Internet,
but still...
So, let's reason this out.
The reason people
fall into this trap is that they assume that their phone company
wouldn't be stupid enough to pay someone $17K for a movie and so
something like this couldn't possibly happen to them. But not
only are the phone companies dumb enough to pay $17K for a movie but
they think you're dumb enough to throw in an extra $45K just
for
them.
Back in my day, a "carrier" was someone like Typhoid
Mary. Today a "carrier" is what you call a cell
phone company. In either case, it still refers to parasites.
ARS Technica 24-Apr-09
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