Sky-high travel phone bills nearly bust house payment [Telecom]

Sky-high travel phone bills nearly bust house payment

By Christopher Elliott Tribune Media Services

(Tribune Media Services) -- When it comes to "gotcha" fees, the cellular phone industry makes travel companies look like rank amateurs.

Take what happened to P. Morgan Brown when his wife decided to take a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Indonesia.

Her Verizon bill came to a staggering $8,000. Text-messages home cost an astounding $2.50 each and the meter was running at an eye-popping $1.75 a minute for phone calls.

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