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from earlier today: "The decision was the first step in a months-long process at the FCC that will ultimately result in another vote on whether carriers should

• DougWebb 16y ago
  That's great and I fully support it, but in my case it wouldn't have done a damn thing to help. The MiFi has its own phone number which is separate from any other accounts you have with verizon. While it can accept text messages the only way to see them is to tether the MiFi to a computer and run the verizon connection manager which has a non-default tab where you can view and send texts. An email also wouldn't have helped because my wife was attending a wedding while her computer was downloading stuff back at the hotel, so by the time she saw the email it would have been too late. My situation wasn't a gradual build-up of data charges over a month; the entire $900 worth of charges were incurred in just a few hours while the computer was unattended. The law should cause carriers to terminate service when the limit is reached, and only allow the limit to be exceeded if the customer explicitly requests it and authorizes the charges. This is especially true for a device like the MiFi, in our modern world of automatic updates, syncronization, and applications that phone home regularly for all sorts of reasons.