whats Your highest phone bill ever?

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................and you thought your old lanline was high.....

Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill
By Associated Press
4 hours ago

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.

Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father's phone line in January after he died and settled the 84 ringgit ($23) bill, the New Straits Times reported.

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) bill for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported.

It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used illegally after after his death.

"If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I'm ready to face it," the paper quoted Yahaya as saying. "In fact, I can't wait to face it," he said.

Yahaya, from northern Kedah state, received a notice from the company's debt-collection agency in early April, the paper said. Yahaya said he nearly fainted when he saw the new bill.

Government-linked Telekom Malaysia Bhd. is the country's largest telecommunications company.

A company official, who declined to be identified as she was not authorized to speak to the media, said Telekom Malaysia was aware of Yahaya's case and would address it. She did not provide further details.

Posts: 241 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 241

maryjane wrote:

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) bill for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported.

It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used illegally after after his death.

You'd have to simultaneously call everyone on earth for about a month to run up $218 trillion in long distance. I'm saying it was a mistake, how about you?

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pdhenry wrote:

maryjane wrote:

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) bill for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported.

It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used illegally after after his death.

You'd have to simultaneously call everyone on earth for about a month to run up $218 trillion in long distance. I'm saying it was a mistake, how about you?

No doubt its a mistake. Thats a good reminder to me why I will never sign up for an auto pay deduct for any of my bills..... except the ones i'm forced to. Rolling Eyes

......... Mistakes DO happen

Posts: 426 · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject:

What does a call to the space shuttle cost? Remember it is government.

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Actually NASA is working hard at getting the shuttle and other space assets IP enabled. Therefore the cost is expected to be free for other Vonage users. Smile

Posts: 1715 · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject:

Actually, not even the DoD's newest communications toy -- Iridium, cost THAT much! and the DoD bought the whole system, satellites and all!

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maryjane wrote:

Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill.

$218 trillion - now that is a phonebill I would have liked to analyse.

Hopefully I could have saved him a few dollars Smile