Mobile Carriers to Offer Free Usage Alerts

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I'll bet that lady with the $200,000 phone bill could have used this.

The FCC has pushed for mobile carriers to cut down on so-called "bill shock," unexpected increases in customers' monthly bills, since May 2010. Some mobile customers have complained of unexpected charges in the thousands of dollars in recent years, said Julius Genachowski, the FCC's chairman. The new CTIA guidelines are a "big win for consumers," Genachowski said at a press conference.
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Yay for personal responsibility! Oh wait...

Btw AT&T does this already for me...
 
OR... why not charge $20/month for unlimited everything, and still rake in tremendous profits, and have incredibly happy customers because there's no such thing as overage.

Data is so cheap this day and age, don't be fooled, you could send a packet around the world billions of times and it still would cost pennies.
 
RyanLucier said:
OR... why not charge $20/month for unlimited everything, and still rake in tremendous profits, and have incredibly happy customers because there's no such thing as overage.

Data is so cheap this day and age, don't be fooled, you could send a packet around the world billions of times and it still would cost pennies.
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QFT
 
RyanLucier said:
OR... why not charge $20/month for unlimited everything, and still rake in tremendous profits, and have incredibly happy customers because there's no such thing as overage.

Data is so cheap this day and age, don't be fooled, you could send a packet around the world billions of times and it still would cost pennies.
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Tremendous profits isn't the same as ludicrous profits, think of the share holders!!!

Or they could simply say "after $XXX of the customer choosing we simply stop all service on the phone" So if you go overseas after $100 stop whatever the fuck I'm doing so I don't get hit with a $10000 bill when I get back, I'll make due some other way.
 
T-Mobile hit me with an $800 bill years ago because we were in the middle of a multistate move with multiple vehicles. I was pissed as hell that among everything else going on, they felt it was reasonable to allow a bill that for years was right at like $75/mo. go over by such a large amount without a singe call or text to make sure something odd had not happened.
 
Everything the government gets involved in gets fucked up, get's broken, doesn't work right, or in general is largely a detriment to those that it supposedly is trying to help. w
 
Methadras said:
Everything the government gets involved in gets fucked up, get's broken, doesn't work right, or in general is largely a detriment to those that it supposedly is trying to help. w
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how is this a bad thing, yea I understand for other situations they usually mess up but this is just necessary for every carrier.
 
Or, just you know, have a preset limit that cuts off your phone (except for emergency calls) when the bill gets too high until you personally call your carrier and authorize overages.
 
I'm not familiar with your networks. But how common is roaming? I realize that you have a lot of land to cover, does that mean you often go to a Verizon area and hop back and forth with AT&T area every day?
 
Sly said:
I'm not familiar with your networks. But how common is roaming? I realize that you have a lot of land to cover, does that mean you often go to a Verizon area and hop back and forth with AT&T area every day?
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its transparent these days, 10 years ago you would have a huge bill or no service in a lot of areas, today there are a lot of roaming partnerships and people are on several networks throughout a day in many areas without ever knowing it, and there is no visible increase in fees for it
 
My main point here: If you are too stupid to know about roaming/if its on... I don't think you are the type of person that knows how to text. There are tons of older people (like the ones getting these $1,000+ cell bills) who CANNOT figure out how to text, even some that you've already taught!

For instance, my grandpa or dad would get the text for free saying "OMG you are being charged an assload starting right now!" and they would never be able to read it, because they don't know how...... just another loophole for the carriers to continue on with this BS.

And yeah... data should not EVER cost 10 cents per kilobyte (etc.) ... that is insanely overpriced and price gouging to charge so much for data, OR minutes (which costs everyone who owns a cell tower peanuts, not even a penny... even for roaming)
 
if they only did that for landlines well in the late 90's i could have used that for, When I got my first PC was like 96, I used dial up for internet much like every one else at that time, but i was dialing the wrong number, it was only like 30 miles away from my house but phone company considered it long distance, and got a bill of like 800 bucks and my mom and dad yelled at me cause they thought i bought porn. ya lol, mom would bring that up every now and a then when she got mad at me for a few years after that. Would have been nice to get some kind of warning though. Just felt the urge to share that story :p
 
RyanLucier said:
OR... why not charge $20/month for unlimited everything, and still rake in tremendous profits, and have incredibly happy customers because there's no such thing as overage.

Data is so cheap this day and age, don't be fooled, you could send a packet around the world billions of times and it still would cost pennies.
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This, right here, is why I am so pissed at telecom companies
 
nobody_here said:
its transparent these days, 10 years ago you would have a huge bill or no service in a lot of areas, today there are a lot of roaming partnerships and people are on several networks throughout a day in many areas without ever knowing it, and there is no visible increase in fees for it
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I see, i guess that would explain why they're on by default.
 
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