£27k Mobile Phone Bill.

[F Body]

Jeeze thought I was doing well when mine goes over £50

Ian Simpson, a factory worker from Darlington, was no doubt revelling in just how good surfing the Net via his mobile phone was until he got his latest bill from Vodafone. The £27,000 heart-stopper was laughed at, at first, but now the poor sod's facing bankruptcy

Simpson had his mobile connected to his laptop as a modem and downloaded over 20 TV shows and some albums before the bill pointed out that his £41.50 per month contract did not include unlimited Net downloads. Oops.

In fact, it only covered a measly 120Mb of downloads a month. That said, after he exceeded the amount, Vodafone started charging him at an extortionate rate, sometimes up to £18 per minute
As far as I'm concerned, that's criminal and I hope they never see a penny of it.

Simpson and Vodafone are now in talks to reduce the amount to a more manageable sum. A spokesperson for the operator told the Northern Echo:

Brain of Britian.

[Big Mouse]

What a retard - does no one ever look at the call charges in the small print anymore?

"and downloaded over 20 TV shows and some albums". Right. I think we can all guess what he was really downloading can't we?

[Allanv]

jesus to d/l over mobile must have took forever bloody idiot

[Fieldy]

Looks like A muppet......

[philoldsmobile]

Quoting: Big Mouse

What a retard - does no one ever look at the call charges in the small print anymore?

i agree, BUT.. under no circumstance is £18 per min EVER even remotely justifiable...

vodafone should be in the dock for attempted theft.

[art b]

he he he a likkle knowledge is a dangerous thing ... noob
vodaphone know they wont get the money......

[55starchief]

Quoting: Allanv

jesus to d/l over mobile must have took forever bloody idiot

nope vodafone has 8mb on their 3G datacards

[Rob]

How did he manage to get an account in the first place...the pikey inbread geek trailer trash sister f***ing sheep chasing bug eyed no qualifications waste of good food tosser.......

[Fieldy]

Quoting: Rob

How did he manage to get an account in the first place...the pikey inbread geek trailer trash sister f***ing sheep chasing bug eyed no qualifications waste of good food tosser.......

say what you see eh rob!

[ianjpage]

now thats what you call a big mobile bill - but FFS how did they let him run it up.....

[Roadkill]

Muppet.  

But still, just another case of a big company reaming the "little guy".

[55starchief]

There was another case earlier in the week of a kid who had managed to run up a 3k bill doing the same thing