Oops! The story of my ringtone.

So I made an awesome ringtone for my phone today. As anyone reading this knows I am a very big fan of the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Today I downloaded the "green is the colour" song. It is such a great song that I thought it would make a nice ringtone. At first I thought that I could just transfer the file to my phone but the phone is older and would not allow the file to be used for the ringtone. So I looked online at how to convert my mp3 file to a ringtone. It turns out the itunes can do the trick by converting the file to an AAC format. Then I was able to use a website called http://rumkin.com/tools/sprint/ to send the file to my phone's download folder. This worked beautifully and now I have the song as my ringtone.

I then went and got groceries and when I got back to my house I got thinking about our phone plan. I remembered having unlimited text messaging which is what the file to my phone had been embedded in but I also remembered not having any data plan. I then called Bell, our provider, to find out what this little ringtone had cost me. It turns out that we have a really old plan and that the cost was going to be 5 cents a KB. The ringtone was 3.5MB or $175.00, I then nervously asked what kinds of plans would I be eligible for to cover this cost. It turns out that there is a $10.00 a month unlimited browsing plan that we could add, sigh of relief. We had to add it to both phones and we need to keep it for at least a month.

In the end I ended up having an awesome $20.00 ringtone. I also have a very loving wife who told me that she would never bring it up since I clearly felt so bad and foolish about what happened. I had to share how awesome she is with the world. I also had to let everyone know that I have a really cool ringtone.