Oh hey look, it's a $13000 Bell Mobility bill

I live on the border between Canada and the States and my Novatel U720 EVDO modem roamed across the river a few times. Six gigs worth. Plus I was using it five days after the bill date so there's another couple thousand. Anyways, I think they're going to waive it but I'm responsible for any more roaming charges I incur from now on. And from comparing dates and times in the Mobile Connect logs to the data usage charges on the bill it looks like it just automatically moves from the Canadian network to the American one without much of a problem. So I'm either going to have to find a guaranteed way to keep it from roaming or just get rid of it. I need to set it to “home only” like a cell phone but all the commands seem to be super secret. And I'd like to use the Kyocera KR1 router so both computers can be on the net but it seems to be impossible to get access to the modem through the router, so there's an added layer of complexity to make this even more impossible.

Oh man, I'd love to get an American EVDO modem since it's so damn cheap over there but I need a US address. Plus I'd worry about it roaming over to Canada. It looks like Nextel's international roaming rates are 3 cents a kb. So that's $30 a meg? Is that right? That can't be right.

Anyways, if you know how to set the U720 to home only or any other way around this problem, please leave a comment or email me.