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iPhone bill is surprisingly Xbox HUGE (lol)
By Ben Kuchera | Published: August 11, 2007 - 12:48PM CT

The AT&T bill itemizes your data usage whenever you surf the Internet via EDGE, even if you're signed up for the unlimited data plan. AT&T also goes into an incredible amount of detail to tell you—well, almost nothing. For instance, I know that on July 27 at 3:21 p.m. I had some data use that, under the To/From heading, AT&T has helpfully listed as "Data Transfer." The Type of file? "Data." My total charge? $0.00.

This mind-numbing detail goes on for 52 double-sided pages (for 104 printed pages!) with absolutely no variance except the size of the files.

The Bill

The picture above is one half of one page. As you can plainly see, with all the information they give away as to my surfing habits, that image makes me a ripe target for identity theft. Or not. Okay, so maybe we should be happy that the pages upon pages of info in this bill aren't going to send privacy advocates into seizures, but then again, why waste the paper?

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