Friends show: $5,500 per on Vodafone
p2pnet news | TV:- A woman was using her husband’s Vodafone mobile to download four episodes of Friends, says Gizmodo.
He left his home in the UK for a business trip in Germany and, "once his plane touched down, the downloads continued".
When the man was back home, he had a call Vodafone to, "alert him of the huge data charge coming in the mail" based on, "some sort of punishing out-of-network rate from the Germany portion of the downloads," says the story.
How much?
A staggering £11,000.
Or, $21,802.
And eight cents.
"Given that this isn’t the first time mobile carriers have exploited their Europe-trotting customers, the European Union commissioner is giving wireless companies until July 1st to justify exorbitant cross-boundary charges," says Gizmodo.
Sometimes, you definitely don’t need friends.
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Gizmodo – Four Episodes of Friends Cost One Man $22,000, March 2, 2008
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March 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
WTF??????!!!!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Bloody Pirates!!!!!
March 4th, 2008 at 1:35 am
Sigh..I do wonder when the powers-that-be realize that it’s crap like THIS that keeps people downloading the files that they pick in the formats that they want via software that they control from even considering switching to digital PPV type services…
March 4th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
This is why I use my cellular phone for only one thing – a phone. I use my wireless VOIP phone for all of the other fun stuff. The drawback to this is the fact that I have to be within range of a WiFi hotspot or open router. My cellphone is also prepaid, so that limits the rip-off amount as well.
March 5th, 2008 at 4:54 am
I wonder how many ‘Friends’ DVD box sets he could have bought for £11 grand?
January 2nd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
That is one of the most absurd things a wireless company can do to their customer-base. Isn’t it the EU for a reason? If they want to have the same currency, I believe that they should set a president that if someone from a cellular company goes from one EU nation to another, the charges should be the same and/or @ the very least automatically re-set to how much it would be for that locality rather than charging up the ying-yang because of international charges. It would be one thing to take off in the UK and land in South Africa since that’s going across continent boundaries, but to go from one EU nation to another? They really need to re-evaluate this whole situation if they want to continue being the EU in all facets of society. 21,000? Unbelievable!