My mom's phone died, so I gave her my old phone, and suddenly there's $24 in data charges.
Her phone was a Pantech Link, and looking back through the data records, there are random data charges for most months, but it's something silly like one single 2kb used for the whole month, that cost $2.
I gave her a Chinese Android phone I had used for a while that does not have any 3g. When I go way back to the months I had been using the phone, the records show no data usage at all for it. From the day we put the SIM card in, on Dec 10th, there are a bunch of little data uses all the way up to Dec 17th, where they abruptly stop. They range from 4kb, to 1.7mb, with a total of 12mb costing $24.
What's going on here? How come when I was using that phone and had no data plan, I got absolutely zero data usage, but now my mom is using it with no data plan, and she's getting data charges, on a phone that doesn't have 3g capability. For January, it doesn't show any data charges so far, we had asked AT&T to make sure there was no data use enabled on that line, so maybe it's fixed now, but does that mean unless you tell them to disable data on a line, they will charge you for bogus data usage?
