Re: Verizon excessive bandwidth charges Frankster wrote:
> What "applications and bandwidth attempts"? You said you entered the
> numbers manually?
>
> -Frank
>
> "BW" <coastalrocker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1eydnYAw369prq3bnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@speakeasy.ne t...
>> I have a family share plan, I pay just under $100/month for. I just
>> renewed, and apparently the infrared port on my Treo is dead. As a
>> result, they weren't able to transfer the phone book in the Verizon
>> store. They said I could use my account and it was pretty easy and
>> left it up to me. Well after several hours of Verizon Tech Support and
>> a few rounds of email with them, I gave up, and spent a few hours one
>> night manually entering the 150 or so entries. I just got my latest
>> bill, and the fees for bandwidth charges and application fees for all
>> those applications and bandwidth attempts added up to $168, on top of
>> my regular bill amount. I am shocked they want me to pay this, given
>> they charge $20 for a phone book transfer in the store. I was so mad
>> I hung up to avoid cussing in this girl's ear.
>
It cost 20 dollars fot an application that'd support both phones, the
rest was bandwidth charges. The Treo wasn't supported on the free with
my account backup plan, I wound up having to try wireless sync I believe? |