{"id":44205,"date":"2013-12-07T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bankrupted-by-a-mobile-phone-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T13:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:29:23","slug":"bankrupted-by-a-mobile-phone-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bankrupted-by-a-mobile-phone-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankrupted by a mobile phone bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nMinisters are finally acting to cap runaway mobile bills after a theft. But will it come in time to save one customer being hounded for \u00a34,100?When Chris Newlove Horton lost his mobile phone during a Saturday night out, he gave little thought, as he looked around the pub the following day, of the potentially catastrophic effect on his finances.Convinced it would turn up, and reassured that the handset was pin protected, he didn&#8217;t report its loss to his phone company, Orange (or EE as it is now known), until the following Thursday. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2013\/dec\/07\/mobile-phone-bill-cap-theft\" target=\"_blank\">Bankrupted by a mobile phone bill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Ministers are finally acting to cap runaway mobile bills after a theft. 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