95 Page AT&T er Cingular er AT&T Bill
No, I don’t own an iPhone. But, I did buy a Blackberry Curve in September. This is the third bill I’ve received, and the previous ones were at the most 10 pages.
Thankfully, AT&T has the environment at heart and will be removing pages documenting itemized details in the “coming months”.
I can’t figure out anything that I may have done differently last month, except for keep the Curve in the non-Faraday Cage area of my house. It might also be related to the lack of any recent “Network Errors” requiring a battery-removing hard reboot.
Regardless, I don’t see any logic in documenting single packet-sized (1KB) data transactions. Most lines in this 95 page bill are 1KB requests (marked as “Out”).
Itemizing the origination and receipt of 1KB packets on a bill is a very “Bell-shaped Head” way of thinking about the Internet.
Personally, I will welcome our new wireless data overlords as soon as they invade.