Wow. Isn’t this supposed to be the digital age? Where getting a bank statement on paper is a privilege not a right? I got my first bill from AT&T in a nice big envelope yesterday and obviously AT&T doesn’t care about the environment or about the wasted cost of mailing me 22 pages.

At first I freaked. Did I do something really weird, like have my phone on autodial and unknowingly call the same number over and over again? Was my bill going to be for $6000.

But I was calmed, and then soon aghast as I read through all the pages. There were pages after page listed anytime my iPhone had hit the edge network, with a $0.00 next to it (because data is unlimited on the iPhone). I have no idea whether this absurdly long statement is due to legacy systems that AT&T has in place, when, back in the day, there was a charge for each data access. Or is there some sort of legal requirement that I know every time I hit the Edge network. Sure, I used the iPhone a lot (and still do) when I first got it, but I don’t think I was out of the ordinary as a user.

Anyone else get their bills yet? How many pages are you at?