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automation gone wrong…

September 11, 2007 Richard Pak

A man took his three iPhones out of the country, and now he’s got a $4800 roaming bill because he didn’t turn them off and they kept checking for email. Well, he didn’t turn them off off.

[consumerist.com]

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