Ted Estarija found out the hard way that if you give a teenager a cell phone, you’d better spring for the unlimited package. His 13-year-old son racked up a $22,000 phone bill in one month on his father’s Verizon plan. How’d he do that? It was easy; he just used the Internet on the phone. The moment you start using the web on your phone, you start racking up giant bills for data usage; since Estarija didn’t have a data plan, he was screwed the moment his son started looking up LOLcats or information on delivering babies.
The one good thing about this story is that Verizon Wireless has forgiven the giant cell phone bill, since it’s such an outlier. Ted’s son has also lost his cell phone account, for obvious reasons. That’s one thing I’ve discovered since I started using Verizon that I like about the company. They’re more than willing to forgive the occasional accidental charge for Internet use, which they did for my father on many occasions back when he was trying to figure out how his phone worked.
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