While waiting for a Caribbean cruise liner to set sail from the Port of Miami last November, a Chicago native with an AT&T wireless card and Slingbox decided to catch the Bears vs. Lions football game on his laptop. The end result? A $28,067.31 bill from for international data charges, despite the ship never leaving the harbor. Apparently the card was picking up a signal it shouldn't have, and while the bill was eventually dropped to $290.65 after a considerable number of calls to customer service, let that be a warning to mobile users traveling on the fringe of international roaming areas -- and in case you were wondering, the Bears ended up winning 27 to 23.

Source: Engadget

Well at least the Bears won.

$28,000 is cheap. Would have cost $140,000 on my .10/kb plan data plan (which I obvioulsy never use)

$290 to watch a football game??? W-T-F????!!!!

and I thought 60 bucks for a U of M football ticket was outrageous...

hot damn!

My cell phone plan charges 50$/Megabyte. I downloaded 1 thing. A *free* 4 second soundbite. Cost? 9$. Then I stopped downloading. Hmmm....... good thing I didn't try to download a *free* full length song (4MB).

Damn, these large corporations are such pricks.

AT&T mobile data plans are such a rip off (by American standards).