We have seen that the price of sending a cell phone text message far exceeds the cost. What about mobile data plans?
An Oklahoma City woman is suing AT&T because her first month phone bill was over $5,000.00. She had subscribed to a $60 per month AT&T data plan that was capped at 5 gigabytes. She exceeded the cap the first month, and felt she had been deceived when the bill arrived.
The AT&T plan states that if one exceeds the 5 gigabyte cap, they are charged "$.00048 per kilobyte."
Would she have exceeded the cap if the price had been quoted as "$480 per gigabyte" or, better yet, "$350 to download a CD" or "$2,500 to download a DVD?"
Why does AT&T charge $12 for each of the first five gigabytes and $480 for the sixth? Do you think she should have to pay the bill?
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
AT&T mobile Internet access -- $480 per gigabyte when over the cap
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My name is Larry Press. I am an information systems professor and have been learning and teaching about information technology since the days of unit record equipment.
