[49612] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wcom overbilling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat Jul 6 11:37:38 2002
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 11:37:00 -0400
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Jeff Mcadams wrote:
> Also sprach Dan Hollis
>
>>On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Chris Beggy wrote:
>>
>>>Wcom's overbilling will be investigated:
>>>
>
>>Is there a single wcom customer on nanog that *hasn't* been overbilled?
>>
If they were _underbilled_, by any carrier, they would be unlikely to
give details here. And I have seen some fairly major underbilling. YMMV.
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
>
> I don't think we've done business with *any* telco that hasn't
> overbilled us, both LECs (BellSouth, GTE/Verizon, Cincinnati Bell, ICG,
> Adelphia), and l/d (wcom, T, MCI, probably others that I'm forgetting
> about).
>
> I've had the same thoughts as another poster that its a ploy to increase
> "revenues" (even if they're written off later)...and I actually don't
> say that thinking it a joke, I really do seriously think that they do
> that to some degree.
>
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Regards
Marshall Eubanks
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