Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Overbilled by Six Orders of Magnitude Message-ID: <12817@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 29 Sep 90 19:12:07 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 22 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 697, Message 3 of 12 On Sep 29 at 1:44, Robert Michael Gutierrez writes: > This I agree on. MCI had problems with so-called "stuck clocks," or > billed calls that were extremely excessive (like 600 - 2000 minutes). MCI also has a problem with excessively small bills. A couple of years ago, I opened an MCI secondary account. Not once have I placed a call, but the first month the account was opened, one bogus call appeared on the bill with a charge of $0.23. I ignored it. Every month now for two years an MCI bill has appeared with a Past Due amount of $0.23 showing. Apparently is too small to trigger any collection action but also there is no sanity check to drop it. MCI has spent many dollars in postage now reminding me of that 23 cent amount. I do enjoy reading the bill inserts, however. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !