Yet again, the telecom providers can’t do simple math. Verizon was often the laughing stock, but now it’s AT&T’s turn. Adam Savage was quoted 0.015 cents per kb (1.5 cents per kb) for a access in Canada, and look at his $11,000 bill for an hour or two of web surfing…<\/p>\n
\nBad Math Strikes MythBusters’ Savage<\/a>: “etherlad writes ‘MythBusters’ Adam Savage got a bill charging him $11,000 for ‘a few hours’ of Web surfing while in Canada, using his AT&T USB Mercury modem. AT&T gave him a quote on the data rate: ‘.015 cents, or a penny and a half, per kb.’ Looks like AT&T didn’t learn from Verizon’s inability to do math. AT&T is also claiming Savage downloaded over 9 GB, which he calls ‘frakking impossible.’ Savage’s huge following on twitter got him a speedy response by AT&T.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yet again, the telecom providers can’t do simple math. Verizon was often the laughing stock, but now it’s AT&T’s turn. Adam Savage was quoted 0.015 cents per kb (1.5 cents per kb) for a access in Canada, and look at his $11,000 bill for an hour or two of web surfing… Bad Math Strikes MythBusters’ […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[56,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}