{"id":568775,"date":"2010-05-18T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=31683"},"modified":"2010-05-18T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T12:37:26","slug":"verizon-finally-lets-the-18000-data-bill-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568775","title":{"rendered":"Verizon finally lets the $18,000 data bill slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/VerizonBillBob.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bob&#039;s Bill\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31686\" \/><br \/>\nThe longest 4 years of Bob St. Germain&#8217;s life have finally come to an end, with Verizon letting him loose from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/04\/30\/18000-verizon-bill-oops\/\">$18,000 debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To save you having to read the article I just linked to (I&#8217;m nice like that), I&#8217;ll bring you up to speed:<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, Bob St. Germain signed up to a Verizon phone plan that included 2 years of free data. His son, Bryan, didn&#8217;t know that the free period had ended when he downloaded about 800MB of data while tethering the phone to his PC one rainy day in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>4-year-long-story short, Bob refused to pay, tried to sue, and now, today, Verizon have agreed to let <del datetime=\"2010-05-18T12:14:09+00:00\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billschuffenhauer.com\/bobsled-schedules.html\">Bill&#8217;s bobsled<\/a><\/del> Bob&#8217;s bill slide.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all rainbows and unicorns, however, as Bob&#8217;s bad bill has blemished his credit. Bummer for Bob.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_ODD_BIG_PHONE_BILL?SITE=CAANR&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">AP<\/a>]<br \/>\n[Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5541180\/verizon-forgives-familys-18k-phone-bill-after-four-year-fight\">Gizmodo<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/I5Wlh5uPE7bP73JivV5PLNSKLyo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/I5Wlh5uPE7bP73JivV5PLNSKLyo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/I5Wlh5uPE7bP73JivV5PLNSKLyo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/I5Wlh5uPE7bP73JivV5PLNSKLyo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=CD4jv0BGaXA:MdHelj-jRlc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=CD4jv0BGaXA:MdHelj-jRlc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=CD4jv0BGaXA:MdHelj-jRlc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=CD4jv0BGaXA:MdHelj-jRlc:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=CD4jv0BGaXA:MdHelj-jRlc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest 4 years of Bob St. Germain&#8217;s life have finally come to an end, with Verizon letting him loose from his $18,000 debt. To save you having to read the article I just linked to (I&#8217;m nice like that), I&#8217;ll bring you up to speed: Once upon a time, Bob St. Germain signed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}