Have you ever opened a bill and felt your heart skip a beat? When one Florida woman received her phone bill, not only her heart, but her entire being took a second look.
Brace yourselves, because it’s a tale of texting gone wild, data running amok, and a bill that reached heights even migratory birds couldn’t fathom! Imagine getting a bill that is six figures, probably what people make in a year or a few months. The shock is natural.
Something similar happened to a woman in Florida when get got her monthly mobile bill. Read on to know what happened.
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- Woman gets monthly phone bill worth crores
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Woman gets monthly phone bill worth crores
Daily Mail
This is exactly what occurred to a woman in Florida, USA, when she received her monthly mobile phone bill, which totalled more than £155,000 (Rs 1.63 crore). This incident, which was first reported in 2011, has suddenly reappeared on the internet.
Celina Aarons, the woman, had shared her cell plan with her two brothers, both of whom have special needs and rely significantly on messaging and data for communication.
Celina’s monthly bill would normally be more than £130 (Rs 13,715.14). However, when her brothers relocated from the United States to Canada for a week, they were charged for both foreign services and the enormous data they consumed. According to the Daily Star, the woman had not read her contract’s terms and restrictions regarding foreign usage.
According to sources, they sent over 2,000 texts and downloaded videos, costing them more than £15,000 (Rs 15.83 lakh) in data charges alone. Celina was astonished to find a $201,000 (Rs 1.65 crore) statement when she received her monthly bill the next month.
Her claim for the incorrect bill was ignored by the company
She phoned her service provider, T-Mobile, to get the charge corrected. T-Mobile, on the other hand, argued that the bill was correct. Despite Celina’s claim that the firm failed to notify her when her bill exceeded $200,000 (Rs 1.62 crore), T-Mobile ignored her.
Celina’s condition altered when Miami TV station WSVN-TV intervened on her side. Following their involvement, the phone company agreed to lower the price to $2,500 (Rs 2.05 lakh) and give her six months to pay it off.
A stork, a migrating bird, was the surprising perpetrator in a similar event in 2018 when a Polish charitable group received a large bill. A GPS tracker was fitted on the back of a white stork by the EcoLogic Group, a Polish charity group, to follow its migratory movements. According to BBC News, they were charged over 10,000 Polish zloty (Rs 1,82,870).
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