Man Gets $143K Bill After Using Mobile Data Abroad

www.tmonews.com— Despite the numerous warnings not to use cellular data while traveling internationally, there are still some who make a mistake and activate this. This is because they believe they’ll only use their cellular data for a few minutes but end up using a lot of data in that timeframe. This always spells trouble since the charge for international roaming can quickly add up.  One man from Florida recently experienced this with his T-Mobile account. After a vacation [read full article]

The Guardian—US man returns from Europe to $143,000 T-Mobile bill for using phone overseas. Gigantic bill apparently reflected using 9.5 gigabytes of data on a phone that had not been set up for international roamingA Florida man was stunned to come back from a European trip and – upon checking his phone bill – realize that he had been charged a staggering $143,000 by his phone company for using his device while overseas.ABC Action News reported that Rene Remund and his wife had toured Switzerland last September and had even gone to a T-Mobile store to share his travel plan with his...

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