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Published on August 15, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

The buzz has quieted down, and iPhone owners aren't the target of universal envy that they were just a few short weeks ago.  So now that the glow has started to fade, reality sets in.  While users are still, on the whole, extremely happy with their phones, they're just now getting their first bills from AT&T, and boy are they a shocker!

It turns out that even if you have an unlimited data plan, your bill will itemize each bit of data that was received by or sent from your phone.  Surf the web?  Every data element downloaded will have a line item.  Big on text messaging?  Expect each and every one of those to get their own line on the bill.  If you're especially attached to your digital device and use it heavily, you might end up like i-Justine, who just received a 300 page phone bill.

Remember, if you have an unlimited plan, you can download and text until you're blue in the face, and it won't cost anything extra.  So each item on the 300 page bill?  $0.00

Engadget has a quick little video from i-Justine unboxing her phone bill.


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on Aug 15, 2007
Hardly a murmur will be heard while AT&T clears the Amazon to feed its ravenous appetite for billing paper....but Jumping Jehosaphat, there'll be hell to pay if they harm one single twig of those 800 year old California Redwoods.

Sorry, but this debacle is an obscenity long before that...thing is, how many will sit back in apathy and say/do nothing until AT&T's corporate machine is ripping up their floorboards to make the paper that makes the bills that postal workers are not allowed to lift under the workplace safety guidelines?
on Aug 16, 2007
   Just think if the box would have been mailed elsewhere or stolen look at all the data that someone would have got about that person and everyone they talked ot exted too.. What is the goverment controlled world coming too.
on Aug 16, 2007
I think I would be examining that bill veeeery thoroughly. I wouldn't put it past then to try and slip something in with all that and also sometimes companies do make mistakes. I've had it happen a few times where I've had to contest an item on a bill or statement because of a silly slip-up.
Puts new meaning to the term itemised billing though. I don't think the only other option should be online/paperless billing though.
on Aug 16, 2007
Yea we've had cingular for a long time and I have unlimited messaging on my phone our bill is always like 200 pages...
on Aug 16, 2007
A 300 page phone bill in a box...jeez. That's a waste of paper. They really don't need to put every data transfer that person made, they probably won't even look at it.
on Aug 16, 2007
What is the goverment controlled world coming too.





on Aug 16, 2007
Waste of Paper,Money and Customers!      
on Aug 16, 2007
The database for this spying crap must be ginormous


You have NO idea...
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