$27,000 Football Game on a Wireless Laptop

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Wayne Burdick got hit with a $27000.00 bill for watching a football game on his laptop through his slingbox at home.  Nice!  It seems Mr. Burdick was abord a Caribbean cruise ship that was still at dock in Florida. Since the boat wasn’t going anywhere, he watched the three hour game.  When he got home from his cruise, a bill for over $27000.00 was waiting for him for three hours of international use.

“Burdick pled his case to AT&T, saying he was still at the port and not in roaming territory. After speaking with nearly a half-dozen people at the company, he managed to get the bill down to $6,000, even though he provided documentation that he was still technically in Miami at the time he used his wireless card.

Eventually, the whole matter was settled after Burdick contacted Team Fixer at the Chicago Sun-Times and they contacted the phone company. AT&T acknowledged its mistake, saying that Burdick’s device was picking up a signal it shouldn’t have been.”

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So, the moral of this story is be careful where you use that wireless connection.

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