Customer receives €11,721,000,000,000,000 phone bill

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I've heard of some pretty outrageous phone bills in my time, but nothing so ridiculous as the €11,721,000,000,000,000 a French woman had to pay to close her phone account. Solenne San Jose, from Pessac in the Bordeaux region of southwestern France, was understandably shocked to hear she had to pay so much money - 11.7 quadrillion euros - saying "there were so many zeroes I couldn't even work out how much it was." Operators at Bouygues Telecom told the woman that they initially couldn't amend the insane fee, however after some phone calls it was revealed she was supposed to only pay €117.21. Obviously 12 zeros had slipped in there somewhere (was it the office cat?), with the telecom company blaming it on a "printing error" and then a client-staff call center misunderstanding.

It's lucky that she didn't have to pay 11.7 quadrillion euros, because that turns out to be more money than the GDP of the entire world (around 54.3 trillion euros). What a relief!

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Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/customer-receives-11721000000000000-phone-bill

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K-SmoovePosted:

Wow.. just lucky.

ValorPosted:

lol thats like pocket change to me

-Robin-Posted:

That wouldn't even be possible. I don't see how you would've been able to get a phone bill up that high but i bet she's glad it was an error...

SausageHoarderPosted:

BackHandLegend
Lilith
AR15 Typical woman running up another bill.


I'm tired of sexist comments! D:


I'm not...


Lol. Just Lol :D

InnocentPosted:

Lol made my morning reading this xD

NodePosted:

What was the point in posting this -.-

ChugJugPosted:

Wow that's a gigantic phone bill

UziPosted:

This news article seems blatantly pointless, considering it was all a misunderstanding.

RickPosted:

CyanogenMod7
RebornPredatorX
Erected_Pickles Anyone know how many U.S dollars ($) that would be?


$15,186,899.70


LOL no you ****, lrn2 transfer currency


the correct response is
11,721,000,000,000,000.00 EUR = $15,178,710,178,710,178.00 USD

SulfurPosted:

I can't imagine the look on her face when she saw it for the first time :O