Data Plan Vs. Tethering Plan

Pay heed to this article. There is a difference in surfing the net from your cell phone and connecting it to your computer to use as a modem. If you don’t have the right plan you could be in for a shock on your next bill.

Pay attention to your cell phone plan before you start using it for broadband activities. Imagine getting an $85,000 cell phone bill. Sure it’s a mistake. Well think twice, the bill is correct. You owe $85,000 for 6 week use of your cell phone.

This is what happened to 22-year-old Piotr Staniaszek of Calgary, Canada, who used his mobile phone to download misic and movies onto a computer. Staniaszek claims Bell Mobility should have notified him about his skyrocketing bill for just 6 weeks. Staniaszek normal bill is about $150, but ran up his bill when he signed up with Bell Mobility to pay $10 a month to use a mobile browser on his cell phone.

Staniaszek made the mistake of using his cell phone to download files to a computer which wasn’t a part of his contract. The plan is meant for internet surfing, e-mail access and file downloads to the phone itself. Staniaszek had been using the phone as a modem to download high-resolution movies onto a computer.

Bell Mobility did make a “Good Faith” adjustment and reduced his bill to about $1300.00