Guy with 'unlimited' data plan gets $85,000 bill

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Originally Posted by PhotoJim

this fellow was an employee in the remote northern Alberta oilfields.

That's what several news stories said. I presume that neither DSL nor cable are available up there and that explains why he had to use a cellphone.

As for what he was downloading, it was probably seismic data. When you're up there without your girlfriend for weeks at a time, when you come, the earth really moves — or so I've heard