A FRENCHWOMAN who received a telephone bill for an amount equivalent to nearly 6000 times the country's annual economic output has had the real amount she owed waived - after finally convincing the company they must have made a mistake.
Solenne San Jose , from Pessac inthe Bordeaux region of southwestern France, could not believe her eyes when she openedthe bill to discover she was being asked to pay 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros ($14.92 quadrillion) to close her account.
"There were so many zeros I couldn't even work out how much it was," she said.
Ms San Jose's alarm mounted when operators at Bouygues Telecom told her they could not amend the computer-generated statement or stop the balance from being debited from her bank account.
Only after a series of frantic calls did the company finally admit the bill should have been for 117.21 euros.
Bouygues Telecom said the mix-up had been due to a printing error and a subsequent misunderstanding between the client and staff at their call centre.http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/love-to-chat-but-trillion-euro-phone-bill/story-e6frfmd9-1226493252797