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Re: MCI billing fraud ... again
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 02:48:03 -0400
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:34:43PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Thus spake "Randy Bush" <randy () psg com>We're being hit up by MCI's billing fraud again.mci's billing problems are gross ineptitude, not fraud. and just about every major (and many minor) telco has the same mess."Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
But also be wary of attributing solely to stupidity a consistent pattern of billing "mistakes" which can be explained by pointing at stupid people but which net a lot of money from the folks who don't notice the errors. :) Seems to happen a LOT in this industry, across many vendors, but some more often than others. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
Current thread:
- MCI billing fraud ... again Dan Hollis (Jul 21)
- Re: MCI billing fraud ... again Joseph S D Yao (Jul 21)
- Re: MCI billing fraud ... again Randy Bush (Jul 21)
- Re: MCI billing fraud ... again Stephen Sprunk (Jul 22)
- Re: MCI billing fraud ... again Jon Lewis (Jul 22)
- Re: MCI billing fraud ... again Richard A Steenbergen (Jul 22)
- Re: MCI billing fraud ... again Joe McGuckin (Jul 23)
- Re: MCI billing fraud ... again Stephen Sprunk (Jul 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: MCI billing fraud ... again Alex Rubenstein (Jul 21)