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South Korean mobile operators introduce unlimited plans after teen suicide

Link: Briefly: Youth’s suicide prompts mobile phone bill limits – Technology – International Herald Tribune. 

South Korean mobile phone companies said Monday that they were offering new calling plans after a 16-year-old boy in Iksan killed himself because of a huge phone bill.

It takes a teenager to kill himself (ostensibly as a result of running up a $3,800 phone bill) for South Korean mobile operators to talk about unlimited data plans?