Lawsuit claims AT&T "systematically" overcharges iPhone, iPad owners

I had a similar problem with another phone (not an iPhone). This was just a basic flip-type phone that I used for the occasional call - no texting, games, apps or web access. I started seeing random data charges on my bill that occurred all hours of the day and night, usually just a few seconds each. The charges increased each month and AT&T had no explanation (but insisted it was something I was doing). After combing through every possible setting on that little phone I couldn't figure out what was causing it. I even turned off the time sync. It only stopped after multiple calls to customer support and AT&T completely blocking data to/from the phone. Once that contract was up I cancelled the service. I wonder how many people get these kinds of "mystery" charges and never notice.

I read the story last night, my phone was connected to wifi all night and I reset my statisitics in my usage screen. As of this morning I received about 4 texts, sent 2 and received 1 email. Once again with wifi in my house.

It says I've sent 42.0 KB and received 151 KB.

If he wins, then what? Do they redesign the iPhone? Does AT&T stop charging for data? Do they make a special exception for charges made from the iPhone compared to their other customers that don't use an iPhone? - http://iphone.blogupdates.net/

I had the same issue happen to me.
Between 2 and 4 am every night, hundreds of MB of data being transferred. No clue for what, and all this while im logged into my home wifi. Yet still, it shows up on my bill as data usage. I used up 4.5 GB in one month.....no video streaming, no internet radio, just basic apps. When I called in to ATT, their solution was to turn off the phone. Dumbass MOFO's....Hope this guys wins!

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Capisce!

Very interested as I recently had "phantom" data usage on my account as well...like 170MB of data UPLOADED from my phone while I was watching TV with my wife. Called AT&T and they couldn't explain. I was logged into a random wifi network at the time so my theory was that a neighbor somehow figured out how to hack into my phone and upload data to through the 3G connection while the phone was in standby. AT&T upgraded me to the 2GB plan for that month for free. Needless to say, I'm keeping tabs on this story.

E.T. phone home. Must be some sort of phantom connection to HQ. Would be interesting if this wasn't isolated to only AT&T.

Hmmm... why wouldn't they sue Apple instead?

*If* the iPhone is using data in the background (with everything like push/etc turned 'off'), then it sounds like an iOS issue.

Unless they've proven that the underlying phone hardware isn't actually transmitting/receiving data (and AT&T are still charging), I don't see how this is AT&T's fault.

(I am NOT one to defend AT&T, but it really seems more likely that the iPhone is accessing data when it shouldn't (as opposed to bogus/random billing by AT&T))

Does visual voicemail come through over the data lines?