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(Undated)  —  A recent hankering for some Neil Diamond left a British woman with a bill of more than four-thousand dollars after she downloaded an album while on vacation.  Katie Bryan tells “The Telegraph” she was visiting her boyfriend’s family in South Africa when she decided to download Diamond’s greatest hits collection on her phone.  It was supposed to cost about 15 dollars, but when she returned home, she was greeted by a phone bill of more than 43-hundred dollars.  It turns out the 20-minute download used 326 megabytes of data, which cost about 13 dollars per megabyte after Bryan surpassed her monthly foreign allowance of ten megabytes.  She called the phone company to complain, and was eventually offered a backdated bundle that covered the cost of the download for just 670-dollars.  Bryan admits she feels a little foolish about the mistake, but she also calls it “morally wrong” for the phone company to expect someone to pay that much money for a Neil Diamond album. 

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04-16-2014 01:29:08