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Published on April 10, 2006 By Dr Guy In Humor

In another example of GIGO, a poor man in Malaysia has been socked for a $218 trillion (that is 12 zeros) phone bill!  Ok, we know that mistakes happen right?  Apparently the phone company is not talking about this, as they dont know if it is fraudulent.

Excuse me?  I doubt that all the phone bills since the birth of Alexander Graham Bell dont add up to $218 trillion!  Of course it is a mistake!

Geez!  You would expect that a company realizes 2 things.  One, no on on planet earth, or for that matter, any government could afford to pay that bill.  And 2, they can dream of stock bonuses all they want, but I doubt there total revenue is going to reach that unscalable height for several years to come!

We are talking about the BIGGEST companies in the world only pulling down hundreds of Billions (that is 9 zeros) a year. And Telekom Malaysia is not one of them.


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on Apr 10, 2006
"Excuse me? I doubt that all the phone bills since the birth of Alexander Graham Bell dont add up to $218 trillion! Of course it is a mistake!"

Ha! I laughed out loud at that one. Sheesh. What a phone bill nightmare.
on Apr 10, 2006

Ha! I laughed out loud at that one. Sheesh. What a phone bill nightmare.

A 2 thousand dollar bill is a nightmare.  This one is just for the books and a laugh.

on Apr 10, 2006
Even if you had a "Three way" with several 900 operators 24/7, and all at once, you couldn't ring up that high of a total.
on Apr 10, 2006
I think they only way a bill could be that high was if God himself was calling this guy every morning, collect.

It'll be interesting to see what the Malaysian court system does with this.
on Apr 10, 2006

Even if you had a "Three way" with several 900 operators 24/7, and all at once, you couldn't ring up that high of a total.

You would have a caulifour ear, and a sore jaw!

on Apr 10, 2006

I think they only way a bill could be that high was if God himself was calling this guy every morning, collect.

With all due respect, but God and all his Archangels as well!  But maybe his father was trying to contact him?

never thought of that angle.

on Apr 10, 2006
funny, now if that was a refund check for 218 trillion I could just see him at a bank trying to cash it!
on Apr 10, 2006

funny, now if that was a refund check for 218 trillion I could just see him at a bank trying to cash it!

"Mr. Bush, it seems we are really bankrupt now.  Even the Fed had to empty its vaults."

on Apr 10, 2006
I'm sure my father thought my sister was trying to run up a monumental phone bill when she was a teenager but I doubt even he exaggerated it to this extent. I'd love to hear how the company will explain this one.
on Apr 10, 2006

Even my daughter and her cousin couldn't ring up that big of a bill!  tho she tried a few times....

 

on Apr 10, 2006
Wow! I had no idea phone sex was so expensive!
on Apr 10, 2006
Wow! I had no idea phone sex was so expensive!

Yeah that explains a lot!! haha
on Apr 11, 2006

I'd love to hear how the company will explain this one.

I wonder if someone punched in a phone number for the amount due?  Even that would have been a long phone number!

on Apr 11, 2006

Even my daughter and her cousin couldn't ring up that big of a bill! tho she tried a few times....

That is when you get them the cells with the unlimited talk time!

on Apr 11, 2006

Wow! I had no idea phone sex was so expensive!

Even real sex is not worth that much!

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