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Old Jan 12, 2007 | 5:39 pm
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Originally Posted by cpx
OT: How do you manage to run up a bill of $350 on a personal phone?

I have close to unlimited calls... and I still dont manage to get that close.



For phones, I generally buy them on my own when they are in the market
for a bit and dont cost as much.. and try not to keep the contract with
the provider. (ie. not renew the contract once its over)

But I never had to switch a vendor because of this in a while now.
I have a personal and business phone on the same account. The business phone is the only that runs up the $300 to $500 bill each month. I call overseas a lot; and I call from Europe to the US quite often too. I suspect that its profitable for Cingular when I call Europe, but I don't know if they get much when I call from overseas.

I didn't look at any of the "e-mail" plans, but I have to believe they would have tacked on a lot of additional charges when I started using e-mail.
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