A man charged for 9.3 million yen using P2P software without knowing the mobile phone's price plan

According to Reuters news agency reports, there are some men who have been charged 9.3 million yen as a result of repeating the download of movies and other files on P2P without knowing the mobile phone billing plan in Canada in detail.

Details are as below.
Canadian man, billing plan not knowing mobile phone fee to 9.3 million yen | global speech | Reuters

According to this article, a 22-year-old man working in an oil field in Alberta, Canada, used the modem instead of knowing the mobile phone's price plan in detail, downloading movies and other files with P2P software, resulting in a total of 8 It seems that a bill of $ 5,000 (about 9.3 million yen) has arrived.

The man who received the bill naturally seems to have been shocked, but the man's father said that he was dissatisfied with the amount billed to the press. Although it seems that the amount charged is reduced to 3400 Canadian dollars (about 375,000 yen) due to the favor of the telecommunications company, the father of the male is still not convinced.

Incidentally, in the case of mobile phones in Japan, unless you subscribe to the plan that PC connection provided by NTT docomo and au will be flat, this situation can be invoked, but in the case of WILLCOM according to the following link, Even if you do not subscribe to the packet flat rate plan, the packet communication fee will not be charged more than 21,000 yen.

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