Some poor guy opens his Rogers bill to find…
Did I not call this way back when…? Almost to the dollar!
Holy crap. 9megs is like not even 1/100 of a compressed TV show from iTunes. No wonder Apple refuses to deal with Rogers. Rogers are sitting on a monopoly they’ll soon not give up.
4 thoughts on “Rip. Tear. Heart attack.”
So you can get music, pictures, emails and raped, too. Sweet.
I used to get nailed on those AOL bills too. Crazy ass numbers!
Now it’s just Comcast. The service is reasonable, but then there’s a plug-in-the-wall tax, a you-reset-your-modem tax, a you-change-channels-to-fast tax, an LED display pollution-control tax…
It’d be a lot simpler if they just came and punched me in the face once a month and took $200 out of my wallet before I regained consciousness. At least it would be simpler to understand.
Oh it’s not mine. But I emphasize with him. I did the same back in the early days of the internet with Netcom. $900 bill for a month of clueless downloading.
Thankfully I caught the damn little bugger of a phone before it could do any wallet damage. After I unlocked the phone part I noticed the “E” symbol was highlighted while I was downloading a couple pages. “That’s not right, it should be using WiFi,” I thought to myself.
Network data transfer is it’s default, it seems. So I wiped out the APN info and I get an error message saying it can’t connect to the network, then switches to WiFi.
I took an 800KB hit on this month’s bill. Probably around $50. 800KB is about the same as 4 large pictures from a good camera.
I called Rogers last night and got a shitty $10/10MB per month deal. So if I really REALLY need to get info, I can do about 20 or so emails a month via the phone part.
SHEEEEEEEEEEET!. Reminds me of my first AOL bill back in 1994 when you used to have to pay per hour…it was like 290 dollars in addition to the regular phone bill. YIKES. Won’t be seeing ya for brunch in September or October eh?