Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 09:48 MDT From: rmoonen@hvlpa.att.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Invasion of the Phone Snatchers (Why Bother With $0.25) Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 294, Message 4 of 10 Lines: 18 Kent Borg wrote: >> friends -- also here in Chicago (suburbs) -- that have had the same >> experience with Illinois Bell: a refund check for $0.25! > A few years ago (like five) I got a check for 35 cents -- or some such > -- from Pac Bell. A couple of years ago, the Dutch PTT had to refund *every* telephone subscriber $0.71, because the billing equipment wasn't billing the first five minutes correctly. The Organisation of Elderly Citizens then started a law-suit against the PTT, which they won, and the PTT had to pay back every subscriber. Ralph Moonen rmoonen@[hvlpa|ihlpb].att.com (+31) 35-871380