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| reply to dnoyeB
Re: idiots
I'm not an attorney (but I do work for attorneys, [sarcasm]so naturally I'm an expert [/sarcasm]) so I can't speak to the legality of imbalanced contracts. Seems like a reasonable thing to do, but I would think that it would inherently leave itself open to too much interpretation.
I think it is very possible that the telco could have been in every manner well within it's rights to charge the giant bill, but when he statred squawking to the media and got an attorney who gets paid to squawk, the telco simply made a business decision not to press the issue. It would have cost them more in bad press than they could have possibly made from this one consumer. This way, the telco can look merciful and even magnanimous to this pitiful consumer.
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