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Think your phone bill is high? Try $218 trillion

Malaysian man hit with gigantic bill, ordered to pay up or face prosecution


Updated: 2:21 a.m. ET April 10, 2006

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he received a U.S. $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 (U.S. $23) bill, the New Straits Times reported.

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01-ringgit (U.S. $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 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.
 
Im not sure if it is even possible for a 6 month contenous call to Australia to cost 218 trillion... it is either a mistake or Kellog Brown and Root are in the phome buisness in Malaysia!
 
HndsmCelt said:
Im not sure if it is even possible for a 6 month contenous call to Australia to cost 218 trillion...
yeeeeahh... i'm pretty sure it's not...

$218,000,000,000,000 / (182 days * 24 hrs/day * 60 min/hr) = $831,000,000 per minute
 
Since the value of the entire world's production in 2004 was only $51 trillion, I'd say paying a $218 trillion bill would be, uhm, challenging for an individual.

"Pardon, per chance do you accept payments on an installment plan? I'd like the 500 trillion year plan, thank you. <here is your dollar>.
 
mcsluggo said:
Since the value of the entire world's production in 2004 was only $51 trillion, I'd say paying a $218 trillion bill would be, uhm, challenging for an individual.

"Pardon, per chance do you accept payments on an installment plan? I'd like the 500 trillion year plan, thank you. <here is your dollar>.

maybe they mixed up his phone bill and the U.S. national debt.
 
PixelPusher said:
maybe they mixed up his phone bill and the U.S. national debt.
Either that or he got the phone bill for the Department of Defense...sounds like a phone rate they would "negotiate." ;) :p
 
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