Verizon Wireless Dismisses $18K Cell Phone Bill
He should have been with T-Mobile
T-Mobile is the only carrier does not charge overage, just slow you down after a certain amount, on tethering and datacard (mine does show 10GB cap instead of 5 :p )
What would Tmobile do if someone bought a phone from you, basic voice only, and stuck it into a computer to tether?
And again, it was 2006! Do you have any idea how much has changed since then? in 2006, you could still get unlimited aircards, verizon's 3g (where available) was EVDO Rev0 which was PAINFULLY slow, data was something that was optional on new fangled PDA phones, and people would laugh if you told them that their phone could get online.
Yes, present day, there are a LOT of safeguards in place for morons who can't think. companies made the mistake of assuming their customers were intelligent in 2006. Idiots like Mr 18k bill showed them otherwise. Which is why ...
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I have been with T-Mobile for 7 years and I don't have such problem (I have internet).
you do have internet without a plan, it's pay per use
The guy should read the description carefully about tethering. Some carriers simply charge you by KB if you don't have data/internet, period.
Thus he is RESPONSIBLE
and fyi, he needed to use a program that tricks the phone into thinking it's using data natively. aka, "hacking" the device. So no safeguards like Tzones would apply if he was using a program made to circumvent those safeguards.
It's easier to be done on smartphone platforms. You can do a simple hack to use phone data for tethering, but it's a violation of TOS.
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