T-Mobile family goes on vacation, receives an incredibly high monthly bill

Imagine checking the amount of your next payment to T-Mobile at the end of this month through AutoPay and the amount staring you in the face is $78,240.61. This is what happened to the father of a Reddit subscriber with the username Zolsohwho shared an image from the family monthly TMobile invoice as it appears on the carrier's application. Apparently the family had just returned from vacation and had to pay roaming charges.

Here's the deal. If you are not on a plan with Simple Global, TMobile will charge $15 per MB. Friends, that works out to $15,000 for every GB consumed. The first thing this family needs to do is turn off autopay or their bank will charge them an overdraft fee. And while the size of the bill is certainly shocking, this sort of thing has happened to other people using their phones while traveling for business or vacation.

Reddit Member lettersjustscream wrote: “I had ATT years ago and went to Spain. I had my phone on airplane mode the whole time and only turned on the wifi. My bill was close to $1,000. When “We asked them, they said it was roaming charges and they wouldn't fix it.” Another editor, utspg1980, regaled us with his experience, writing: “I had been to several different countries consecutively and each time I landed I used my phone to get around until I could get a local SIM card. Each time I would I receive this text from Verizon “Hello, we see you are now in Japan. We just want to let you know that Japan is not covered under your plan, however, we have a partnership with the local companies, so you will pay an international roaming rate of 10c/Mb” or something like that. That.”

He continued: “Then I would use my Verizon sim for about 24 hours and it would cost me about $5 roaming which was fine for me. Then I'm going to Cambodia. I receive a text message from Verizon and I'm like “oh, it's the same old text about homelessness, I'll just slip it in.” Well it turns out this text message informed me that they did NOT have a partnership with Cambodian suppliers, so using my Verizon sim, it would cost me something like 10 DOLLARS per MB, not 10c. I made $1,000 in one day. Verizon was actually pretty nice about it and cut the bill in half for me. They had no obligation to do so. »

Here's one latest story from a Reddit user named Odd_Cryptographer577 who spent a whopping £25,000/$31,000 on roaming charges with wireless service provider EE while using his phone for seven hours . The carrier increased its customer's credit limit to £250,000/$316,000, which it reached the following day. Fortunately, the customer said everything went well. “Luckily they were able to resolve the underlying issue and remove the quarter of a million pound charge from my account.”