I pit AT&T for breach of contract

I had the misfortune a couple of months ago to seriously underestimate the number of rollover minutes I had left on my wireless plan (some expired, and I had used all of the rest by the middle of the month), and ended up racking up quite a large bill, which was auto-paid, and had already gone over my measly 450 minutes again by the time I caught on.

So I cursed and swore and cursed some more, and realized that I needed a plan with more minutes because I am dating a wonderful girl whose mellifluous voice soothes my days. So I bumped my plan up to 900 minutes/mo, effective the next billing cycle.

Today I checked to see how many minutes I had left. They were charging me for the 900 minute/mo plan, but billing me for all of my minutes over 450. I don’t see how, even if they waited a month to institute the new plan for some reason, that they could charge me the extra $20 for minutes that I didn’t get and it not be a violation of my contract. So now I get to spend hours on the phone (which will have to be someone else’s land-line, natch) correcting all of this.

Fuck you, AT&T!

Well, A) that’s not a breach of contract, it’s a billing error and B) calling customer care from your cell phone does NOT use minutes. Otherwise, carry on.

If it makes you feel better, T-Mobile used to charge me $0.15 for every text message THEY sent me telling me about their great new promotions. Spent about 2 hours on the phone to get that straightened out.