Four Episodes of Friends Cost One Man $22,000  Stories like this
keep us up at night. One woman was using her husband's Vodafone
mobile phone to download four episodes of Friends. The downloads
were interrupted as the man left his home in the UK for a
business trip in Germany, but once his plane touched down, the
downloads continued.  (As the headline suggests, this doesn't
end well.)  When the man arrived back home, Vodafone actually
called his firm to alert him of the huge data charge coming in
the mail—all £11,000 of it—based upon some sort of punishing
out-of-network rate from the Germany portion of the downloads
(despite the fact that Germans using Vodafone don't pay £11,000
phone bills every month).  Given that this isn't the first time
mobile carriers have exploited their Europe-trotting customers,
the European Union commissioner is giving wireless companies
until July 1st to justify exorbitant cross-boundary charges.  We
wish Vodafone the best of luck in their great time of
difficulty. [telegraphuk]