http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/10/D8GTAQRG8.html<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone BillApr 10 3:08 PM US/EasternEmail this story KUALA LUMPUR, MalaysiaA 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.</div>
haha, this has come up on almost all of the message boards I participate in. I did the math on it for one of them, if a 70-year old person spent every minute of their life on the phone, they would have to be charged $5 million/minute to rack up a bill this large.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jeefunk @ Apr 11 2006, 12:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>haha, this has come up on almost all of the message boards I participate in. I did the math on it for one of them, if a 70-year old person spent every minute of their life on the phone, they would have to be charged $5 million/minute to rack up a bill this large.</div>lol. I was like "that cant be right" but after taking out a calculator, yeah...it would be. lol60 minutes per hourx24 hours per day__________1,440 minutes per dayx365 days per year__________525,600 minutes per yearx70 years__________36,792,000 minutes per 70 years36,792,000 / $218,000,000,000,000 = Roughly 5.9 million per minute.There definately has to be some mistake somewhere, probably put the decimal in the wayyyyy wrong spot and it was only supposed to be like $21.80 lol
Guys, a simple solution, tell all ur parents to sign up with Vonage. You only pay $25.00 flat fee every month with unlimited calling.
I guess they were trying to settle the National Debt simply by pushing it all onto one man. He can declare bankruptcy and then the problem is solved!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AdropOFvenom @ Apr 11 2006, 04:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>lol. I was like "that cant be right" but after taking out a calculator, yeah...it would be. lol60 minutes per hourx24 hours per day__________1,440 minutes per dayx365 days per year__________525,600 minutes per yearx70 years__________36,792,000 minutes per 70 years36,792,000 / $218,000,000,000,000 = Roughly 5.9 million per minute.There definately has to be some mistake somewhere, probably put the decimal in the wayyyyy wrong spot and it was only supposed to be like $21.80 lol</div> that's what I thought, too, the first time I did it...and funny enough, someone has said something along these lines every time I've said that.
I'm gonna have a huge bill this month cuz i went over my 100 text message limit by like 200 or 300 messages so I'm gonna have like 20 or 30 dollars on top of my damn bill
