I read an interesting article in The Star this morning -- here's a quick summary. Michael Koonin of Woodbridge, Ontario sold his corporate iPad to a guy in the US. He sent it off without removing the SIM card so the new user tallied up $25,000 in Roaming Data charges in his first month. The bill went to Koonin's employer, Salbro Bottle. When Salbro Bottle complained, Telus knocked the $25,000 bill down to $10,000, although Paul Saltz of Salbro Bottle thinks that even that is unfair and they should "pay only for one day, since we should have been notified immediately of the issue." (Telus did actually send a series of texts warning the user about the high data usage/roaming fees, but they sent them to the iPad and obviously, the new user ignored them.)
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