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Bob St. Germain said he was not sure at first whether to believe the Verizon official who called to tell him that the balance of his $18,000 cellphone bill had been forgiven, ending the Dover resident’s long-running dispute with the company over the staggering amount, which his son mistakenly accumulated over a six-week period in 2006.

St. Germain’s son, Bryan, now 26, tethered his cellphone to a laptop computer to connect to the Internet, racking up $18,000 in charges over six weeks. Bryan said he did not know the two-year promotional period that had made the access free expired when his father renewed the family’s cellphone plan. As a result, Bob St. Germain received a bill more than 100 times higher than his normal statement.

“Nice to see Verizon dismiss all the charges,” St. Germain said. “But it’s still on my credit report. Someone has to take the next step.”

According to Verizon, the settlement is indeed official: In a statement, the company confirmed it is no longer insisting St. Germain pay the bill.
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Poking around the annals of technology, you’ll probably come across a few product names that didn’t quite do justice to the items they represent. The names of those products needed time to mature, as did the technology itself.
It’s still happening: Try “mobile hotspot” on for size.
A hotspot is a place where you can connect your netbook, notebook, or smartphone so you can log on to the Internet. That much is obvious to most of us.
But what does “mobile” mean? Does that mean the hotspot moves around? Do we have to chase it? Or will it find us? Worse still, how do you buy (or sell) a mobile hotspot?
Contrary to the way it’s been treated so far, mobile hotspot technology is something all mobile professionals should know something about. Besides, over the next 10 years it’s probably going to be the predominant way we connect with anything — or anything will connect with us.
Let’s start by describing the most basic form of hotspot: That wireless router you have in your home or apartment creates a hotspot that you use to connect (wirelessly) to the Internet with your desktop, notebook, or netbook. When you lug your laptop to Starbucks or any other location that supplies you with a similar environment, you’re using a hotspot they’ve created for you and their other customers.
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