Another , in what is turning out to be an occasional series , of the dangers of not understanding the real terms of a phone agreement.
This again is a really sad story of a guy who faces bankruptcy because he ran up a £27000 phone bill after using his cell phone as a modem.
The idea of a terrorist organization having a media department or a pr agency might seem a bit bizarre , but thats effectively what Al-Qaida have in their ’subsidiary’ organization al- Sahab , known as their media wing.
Their most recent work shows the awful irony in the way technology is used both to fight and promote such an organisation.
Different story , same principle – sort of – as the poor guy with an $ 83000 cell phone bill. This time it was it was a hugely clued up guy , Chris Anderson , Editor -in – Chief of Wired magazine , who took his iphone on a trip to China and got a bill for $2000 even though he had hard hardly used it.
Its one of those stories that you think only ever happens to other people – a poor guy gets a whopping c$85000 cell phone bill whilst on a c$7 a month mobility plan from Bell – but it contains a real concern for anyone with a smart-phone