All you did was explain what happened (your kid, girlfriend, etc made the 900 number) and that you didn’t know anything about it. The phone company would just take that portion of the bill out. Of course usually for the first offense.

I think this kind of case should be handled similarly.

Will I be back with Comcast?

You’re kidding right? Crappy service and abusive management? For get it!

http://comcastissue.blogspot.com

along with the high cost of line rental, and ISP charges.

i phoned every week. trying to pay my bill before it got out of hand, it took them over 5 months to bill me, this wasnt only me, it was all their new ADSL customers.

i was given 14days to pay about £500/or so. i called on day one. they refused to extend my payment terms, i spoke to the manager, explained my history, they admitted they had problems, but still wanted payment within 14days.

after i said i think i better speak to the inhouse laywer at my work, they soon gave me more time to pay.

i had the momney set aside all the time in my account, but thats not the point. i refused to be bullied.

down with i phone and all like products, there should only be one device for each service and less trouble

Purchase a decent sports car ..or.. Download porn

Travel the world in style ..or.. Watch a season of Friends

Put a down payment on a home in a hot market ..or.. Share some files and send e-mail

Wether this is a stupid mistake or deliberate excess nobody would ever in their right mind expect a $54K phone bill.

Mobile Internet may be more expensive than conventional connections but how would you go about getting a bill of such size with another provider? I foolishly downloaded all binary newsgroups for a few days a few years ago and was promptly dropped by my ISP. There were some long distances phone charges to their abuse department but no change on the monthly bill.

As noted earlier this is predatory. That the provider would at all consider this a reasonable practice is inhuman.

Threshold monitoring is built into every system we are familiar with – computers or otherwise; some examples include disk quotas and speed limits. Pay as you go cell providers prove the technology exists in this area as well.

Whether it be a time limit, price limit, or data size limit – something should be in place to prevent this unreasonable situation from happening. It’s a gross oversight that allows an outrageous bill of $54K, and the provider should bear that responsibility.

This however is part of a broader issue that billing practices allow people to unexpectedly accumulate mass debts. It seems to be an issue with any new communication service. We have issue with mobile technology today, general Internet connectivity previously (though there are still limits with many packages), and telephone packages in the past (there are still places in the US it’s unclear when you’re making a long distance call!).

It is my suspicion that this comes from the interoperability of many smaller providers, but we must demand some form of protection for the end consumer. Threshold limiting has been around forever, let’s demand protection for each other with mobile and whatever new technology comes along.

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4 albums off of Jamendo?

I’m sure he’s just as smart as you, the problem with your comments is that when you screw up (and you will) no one will be around to call you a fucking moron.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 – is in work.