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konane — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:41:09 GMT

Good for him!!!!

Original Blog Entry: Man uses Twitter to fight $11,000 cell phone bill

truesee — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:29:55 GMT

Mythbuster Tweets His Way Out of $11k Phone Bill

Adam Savage Recruits Twitter Followers to Fight $11,000 AT T Bill for Web Surfing in Canada

By KI MAE HEUSSNER

June 30, 2009

Last updated July 7, 2009

What would you do if you opened up your cell phone bill to face a dizzying five-digit charge?

Mythbuster Andrew Savage recently faced an $11,000 bill from AT T for using a wireless modem to surf the Web in Canada.

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You might do well to follow Mythbuster Adam Savage's lead.

When the host of the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters learned he had rung up $11,000 in charges from AT T while in Canada, he headed straight for Twitter. The culprit, he tweeted, was the USB modem plugged into his laptop that was running on a wireless plan suitable for the U.S., but not for Canada.

AT T is attempting to charge me 11k for a few hours of web surfing in Canada. Pls RT!, he posted to his Twitter feed Friday. Later, he wrote, Almost forgot: Hey AT T! I will fight this bull****.

Still later, he added, They're claiming I uploaded/downloaded 9 million kilobytes (9 gigs) while in Canada. Frakking impossible.

Before too long, thanks to many of his 50,000 followers, 'AT T' became a top Twitter trending topic, according to the tech blog TechCrunch.

By later Friday afternoon, the tweeting became too intense for even AT T to ignore.

Today the tweeps became twoops. Just got off the phone with AT T and they've taken care of everything to my great satisfaction.#twitterrules, Savage wrote.

But though Savage's story may be an extreme, he's not the first nor will he likely be the last to suffer a cellular bill snafu.

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