October 12, 201213 yr An unemployed child minder in France was about to call her phone service provider to cancel her subscription when she received a bill for €11,721,000,000,000,000! She called Bouygues Telecom, the phone company headed by Martin Bouygues, a friend of Nicolas Sarkozy, but was told by shrugging staff there was nothing they could do. One said: "It's calculated automatically." Another told her she would be contacted about paying in instalments. Several calls later, an adviser admitted it was a mistake: San Jose owed €117.21. The company has apologised and let her off the real bill. http://www.guardian....ench-phone-bill How do you pay off 11.7 million billion Euros in installments? It’s 5,000 times the GDP of the country!
October 12, 201213 yr She must have been doing a hell of a lot of SMSing. I remember years ago when I traveled across the USA, I got a bill over 1k as I was going in and out of my carrier zone and I didn't even make calls.
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