So, most companies at least offer some sort of warning, or more likely, require you call to unlock data roaming so they can make sure you understand how much it will cost you. Well with AT&T it appears that bad credit is your only savior if you are caught out of your plan area using data.

That’s right, if you have good enough credit, instead of contacting you, warning you, or anything, they just go ahead and approve you if you are credit worthy. Well our own Ewdison Then just got hit with a decent sized bill for data roaming with AT&T.

Thankfully for him, his bill was only $48.93, not the $5000 we have heard reports of. Its still close to $50 he should have at least been warned he was going to be charged. That’s two cents per kilobyte, thankfully for Ewdi, it doesn’t look like he went to any actual web pages, so I am assuming it was all email traffic, had he started surfing web pages I may well have been writing about another multi-thousand dollar bill.