Frenchwoman's alarm at trillion-euro phone bill
- Published: 10 Oct 2012 at 21.49
- Online news: World
A Frenchwoman who received a telephone bill for an amount equivalent to nearly 6,000 times the country's annual economic output has had the real amount she owed waived -- after finally convincing the company they must have made a mistake.
Photo illustration, taken in France. A Frenchwoman who received a telephone bill for an amount equivalent to nearly 6,000 times the country's annual economic output has had the real amount she owed waived -- after finally convincing the company they must have made a mistake.
Solenne San Jose, from Pessac in the Bordeaux region of southwestern France, could not believe her eyes when she opened the bill to discover she was being asked to pay 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros to close her account.
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