I think it's a good thing the woman refused to pay the bill. This shows what a rip off Canadian telecoms are when it comes to data.

This shows that locking cellphones to carrier is a shitty practice. The woman could have used her cell using the local carrier in Egypt if it wasn't locked.

Also, they advertise their phones as "world phones". Clearly, using you Telus phone to roam in another country is a big bag of :failed: They should be sued for false advertising.

Also, :rofl: at all the lemmings asking for the woman to pay Telus. As if it affects you cunts in any way if Telus gets their over inflated charges paid or not. It's actually in our benefit that she doesn't, but you're too dumb to realize that.

Really? I've called my CC company before and got a $5,000 limit increase over the phone in a matter of minutes to buy something. Of course, that's nothing compared to $37,000, but it's not hard to get a limit increase if your credit is good.

Until we know the conversation they had, it's all just speculation.

Fuck, five pages later and the idiots still don't get it: THE CHARGES ARE ROAMING FEES FROM THE EGYPTIAN CARRIER. Whether the bitch pays Telus or not, TELUS STILL HAS TO PAY THE CARRIER.

Maybe you missed the part where Telus will unlock customers' phones for a piddly one-time charge of $50? Obviously Bimbo did. Since your math fails, I'll point out for you that $50 is a lot cheaper than $37,000.

Psst... roaming charges are imposed by the carrier you're actually using... they don't care who your home carrier is.

What are TELUS' international roaming rates?

TELUS' international roaming rates are the per-minute costs associated with using your wireless phone to make and receive calls while outside of Canada. You will incur a flat per-minute roaming airtime charge for calls placed and received while traveling abroad. Additional charges may apply for emergency or directory assistance calls.

To view TELUS' international roaming rates and packages, please visit international roaming.

http://www.telusmobility.com/en/BC/hspa/intrates.shtml

Telus is making money anywhere in the world you use there phone.

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they're and there

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Telus shut off her phone and call her about the chargers she is racking up. Stupid woman demanded to have her data turn back on. 100% her fault.

Telus is just as stupid as the woman thinking that anyone will submit to them and pay their ridiculous $37K roaming charge.

umm I was not talking bout this incident specifically, hence the part where I said "not even considering roaming charges, robellus rapes you in the ass for tethering charges and ppu data charges if your plan isn't compatible. "

There are many other stories out there of people getting billed 30-80k for tethering when they weren't supposed to.

Marco911 pretty much hit the nail on the head with his posts. 100% agree.

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lol cant blame telus for tryin..
i mean its like DPS trying to make you pay for their parking tickets

If that were to happen Telus will need to put high Interest as 37k now is not equal to 37k in the future lol. IF They ere to do that at least make a 15 to 20% interest rate on it.

I still think most of the time is the customer's fault (working as a techs upport so yea I know most of the stories). I am not a person who checks his bill every other day but I do know what services I got myself into. Haven't got screw once by any cell phone providers, ISP, cable, banks ........ because I make sure everything is set on my part.

A golden rule I go by is Never trust the CSR you speak to unless you ask them the same question 3 times and have them confirm it.

As far as the tethering charges it is advice on all cell phone providers not to use it. It also stats in your contracts in fine prints as well. THere are alos instructions in your phone manuals to teach you how to turn off your 3G if you need to. If people are too dumb and stupid to read and do some reserach then I am sorry but that's what people should do.

There are people who call for tech support for the most stupid reason (they would rather wait on the phone for 20 to 30mins than to do some simple trouble shooting). i have people calling in because their remote would not work (o yea coz your battery died), router won't work yet nothing is connected to it and all kinds of issue that could be fix if people only be a little smarter. But I guess people these days are just not as smart or willing to do the work as it was before.

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I've never had issues with any cell providers either. But then again I probably know more about their service than their reps :lol thanks to Howardforums.

I agree people are dumb, don't get me wrong. Refer to Marco's posts about customers even being able to run up thousands of dollars worth of cell phone charges. I just do not like the fact that they don't just cap it at a certain number, then cut off service until the bill is paid in full. In the end, they have to go through all this hassle with the customer and receive all this negative publicity (referring to previous articles about tethering charges) and it's not like they are gonna get the full amount from the customer anyway, whether it's 10k or 37k.

Very good... now do the math:

Roaming data rate = $0.025/kB (per the link) = $25/MB.

From the article, she used on the nearly 1.6GB, or 1600MB.

$25 * 1600MB = $40,000.

Thought I'd post this video up as it sorta pertains to the discussion.

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2011/c...cellphonebill/

Watched it the other day and thought of this bill! It's all about the $$$$$$$$.

i called rogers for this before i went on vacation and they said they only have blocks of US data for a set price, $20 $30 etc.... none of the add-on for existing data. voice is extra too

I liked the part when she said "turn the data back on". Oh man what a dipshit; whatever happened to wifi.

Wrong, most of the cost comes from accessing towers that aren't owned by Telus.

My brothers friend went overseas for a month or something and racked up a 19k bill by forgetting to take out his SIM card/enable airplane mode and just connecting to towers, not even from any use. Virgin greatly reduced his bill because it was at least an accident (but he was still dumb as fuck), this bitch is just plain dumb, they ut her off and warned her but she told them to put it back. Fail.

wow, thanks for being the 10th dipshit to explain something to me that A: I already know and B: that Ive stated I already know. :gtfo: