{"id":569560,"date":"2010-05-18T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/2010\/05\/18\/verizon-dismisses-18-000-cell-phone-bill\/"},"modified":"2010-05-18T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:05:00","slug":"verizon-dismisses-18000-cell-phone-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569560","title":{"rendered":"Verizon dismisses $18,000 cell phone bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/5\/105488-64fd7ffa8f14515f6ee7024e5a0a-grande.jpg\" alt=\"Verizon HQ\" width=\"468\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Imagine you&#8217;re sitting at home, tethering your phone to your laptop, enjoying what you believe to be free internet access as part of a promotional offer.&nbsp; Then weeks later, you open your mailbox, and are greeted with an $18,000 cell phone bill with charges for said internet.&nbsp; Believe it or not, it happened to Bryan St. Germain in 2006.&nbsp; According to the report, Verizon Wireless offered St. Germain a two-year promotional offer of free internet access, which had just ended when his son used the phone to tether to his computer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Verizon offered to cut the phone bill in half prior to sending it to collections, but it now considers the remaining balance &#8220;uncollectible.&#8221;&nbsp; The company added that cases of that nature are &#8220;exceptionally rare.&#8221;&nbsp; I would certainly hope so.&nbsp; At the end of the day, the bill has been waived, but the good news comes with a bit of a caveat: since the charges were posted to the account in 2006, the bill was sent to collections, thus damaging his credit.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_ODD_BIG_PHONE_BILL?SITE=CAANR&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" >AP News<\/a> (image via <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.wn.com\/ph\/img\/0a\/fb\/64fd7ffa8f14515f6ee7024e5a0a-grande.jpg\" >CDN<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Mtmtv2XbrImVxAgmsjcr0g_Mzm4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Mtmtv2XbrImVxAgmsjcr0g_Mzm4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Mtmtv2XbrImVxAgmsjcr0g_Mzm4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Mtmtv2XbrImVxAgmsjcr0g_Mzm4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/yt4JiWXsHI4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you&#8217;re sitting at home, tethering your phone to your laptop, enjoying what you believe to be free internet access as part of a promotional offer.&nbsp; Then weeks later, you open your mailbox, and are greeted with an $18,000 cell phone bill with charges for said internet.&nbsp; Believe it or not, it happened to Bryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569560","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\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}