AT&T On Defensive And Scared Of Savage’s Twitter Army
Mythbusters Adam Savage got an $11000 bill from AT&T for web surfing while he was on a trip to canada and now he has decided to fight this bill out using social media site Twitter.
Savage and his wife were in Montreal for a five-day vacation earlier this month. Not liking that disconnected feeling, he used a mobile modem — a thumb-sized device that plugs into a USB port on a laptop — from his U.S.-based AT&T carrier to connect to the Internet in Montreal. On Friday, after he returned back to the United States, he discovered his cellphone had stopped working. When he called AT&T to find out the problem, he was hit with an $11,000 bill in data roaming fees.
Here is the public timeline of his tweets:
- Sorry, bit of explanation: device in question wasn’t my phone, it was the AT&T usb connect Mercury modem.
- And I got the “data is charged at .015 cents, or a penny and a half, per kb”. About to try to explain the difference to them. Sigh.
- They’re claiming I uploaded/downloaded 9 million kilobytes (9 gigs) while in Canada. Frakking impossible.
- @— you read it right. $11,000.00
- Did I mention they’ve turned off my phone until I pay? #attsucks
- Almost forgot: Hey AT&T! I will fight this bulls–t.
- Text messaging fees are stupid robbery? (they are), AT&T is attempting to charge me 11k for a few hours of web surfing in Canada. Pls RT!
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