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Re: MCI billing fraud ... again
From: Joe McGuckin <joe () via net>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:29:09 -0700
We've certainly experienced WorldCom's billing ineptness. For years we tried to clear up billing errors without getting anywhere. After WCOM's bankruptcy, things seem different. We've actually been able to get the old outstanding errors cleared up - rather easily, I might add. So, far, the 'new' MCI seems to be a big improvement over the old WorldCom. FYI - MCI is changing the format of their invoices, so there probably will be errors over the next couple of months until they get all the bugs worked out. Joe On 7/22/05 11:48 PM, "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras () e-gerbil net> wrote:
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.
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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)