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1. Comment - Myth-busted, or, Would AT&T have forgiven Savage's bill if he wasn't a TV star?

   (Jun 29, 2009 - 5:01 PM)

   I did go to the source and even provided the source links, something which you failed to do - I guess journalism and academia differentiate in the fact that you actually have to provide more than a passing reference to your source.
   
   Anyway, I don't disagree with your last point that they are happy to rip customers off, however the decimal point issue is the key point in both Mr. Savage's case and the verizon case which I also pointed the link to. How can you expect to get an accurate bill if the company making the bills doesn't understand the underlying math?

2. Comment - Myth-busted, or, Would AT&T have forgiven Savage's bill if he wasn't a TV star?

   (Jun 29, 2009 - 3:19 PM)

   wrong wrong wrong - read directly from his twitter account on what they told him http://twitter.com/donttrythis/status/2349264849 "And I got the "data is charged at .015 cents, or a penny and a half, per kb". About to try to explain the difference to them. Sigh."
   
   The argument that they're (incorrectly) trying to make is that .015 cents is the same thing as .015 dollars WHICH IT IS NOT. The exact same thing happened with Verizon a few years ago - http://verizonmath.blogs...dollars-from-cents.html
   
   This is a simple math problem which is being confused by people who don't understand how math works.

3. Comment - Myth-busted, or, Would AT&T have forgiven Savage's bill if he wasn't a TV star?

   (Jun 29, 2009 - 1:39 PM)

   This article is wrong. AT&T's contract says .015 cents per kilobyte which is much different from 15 cents per kilobyte. (reference: article says $0.15 whereas the contract actually translates into .00015 or maybe .0015)