Cinguler User Racks up $54K Data Bill

Man, could you imagine this happening to you?  I can't even begin to image the horror this person must be suffering.

So for the last 18 months or so, I've been screwed over when it comes to ISPs. I live in a fairly big town, at least for Arkansas, but we don't have any broadband access in the majority of the town. SBC offers it in the downtown part, but I'm around 2 miles from qualifying. So with very few options, I've been a member of AOL for that time. I know everyone hates them, but they're the only ISP that wouldn't disconnect me for being idle while I was playing WoW.
Fast-forward to about 4 weeks ago, when I found out that Cingular was offering these laptop cards that would let you connect to their towers and get "broadband" speeds. I order one, and they tell me that for 79.99 I would get an unlimited transfer rate account. Sounds good to me. They even tell me there's a special and I'll only have to pay 59.99. Even better. The card comes, I buy a PCMCIA to PCI adapter, and besides a few disconnect errors, it works quite well. People warned me that my ping would suck, but it really hasn't, and I've got decent speeds, even if they're not great. I can finally end game raid in WoW.
Now today. I take my dog out for her morning walk to the mailboxes, and my bill is there. It's $54,006.47. And it's only for 10 days. I have no idea what the fuck I'm going to do. Was this a mistake? Did I misinterpert what they told me? The bill says my account comes with 4,096k month for 59.99, and I used 6,724,805. And I know I've downloaded 6 gigs worth of stuff in the last week.
Their customer service center doesn't open for 3 hours, and I usually go to bed right now, so I'm going to try to stay up to talk to them... but what can I do if they tell me I'm screwed and I owe?

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Comments

[TelecomZombie]

Thats quite alot ! The largest Data Bill I've ever had was nearly $10,000 CDn for 3 weeks usage when I did a TOR of an Unlimited EDGE plan & the System didn't recognize it !! :( It was around Christmas 2005 & I had even barely been using the plan as I already had an Unlimited Data Plan in Hand for a number of years & I was reasonably busy with Christmas time festivities !!
Largest Data Bill I had heard of before & I was told by an Exec @ a "Nameless" company of a Data bill of over $26,ooo !!!

I love Unlimited EDGE !! I also have Unlimited EVDO !