Are your cell phone data warnings lying to you? This retired couple says Verizon’s alerts were completely wrong.

One of the most important rules of cell phone use?

Don’t go over your data limit.

Overages can lead to a more expensive bill than you’d been planning for.

Indeed, anyone who has a cell phone-armed teen has probably warned about watching data use when they’re not on Wi-Fi — something that can be a challenge in today’s world of TikTok videos, Instagram reels and music streaming that incessantly eat up data.

But Steve and Barbara Stern, who have used Verizon for decades, aren’t teens.

“(Verizon) cannot explain why my wife’s monthly data use is consistently much higher than mine — and sometimes even my millennial son’s — despite the fact that all music streaming and 95% of navigation are on my phone, not hers,” Steve Stern said. “In point of fact, she has very little non-Wi-Fi usage.”

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