Dead man’s phone bill will help improve MY GDP by the trillions!
How much of a SMS, talk time on a mobile phone and 3G data would a dead man need to use in order to have a bill totaling a few TRILLION Ringgit?
USA Today picked up the news from the New Straits Times that a Malaysian "received a USD$218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution ".
The report also reported that the bill belongs to the Malaysian’s late father who passed away in January 2007 and the account was closed since.
The bill total? 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit!
If the bill was already in the trillion of ringgit, one would have thought that with good customer service Telekom Malaysia would do away with the 0.01 ringgit.
Roaming to the netherworld can be a tad expensive. Usually it is the domain of psychics and tea leaf readers, but it is nice to see that Telekom Malaysia has now bought it into the mainstream.