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Verizon Wireless sends Oregon couple $2M bill

by Sean Kinney, Principal Analyst September 24, 2015
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A Damascus, Oregon, couple has gained national media attention after Verizon Wireless sent them a bill for cellular service totaling a whopping $2,156,593.64.

Ken Slusher and his partner opened the account in November, received the bill, closed the account in December and began trying to get some clarity on the charges.

Slusher told a local news station the situation has “been very stressful to say the least,” and even derailed the couple from closing sale on a home.

A Verizon rep told ABC News the company apologized for the “programming error.”

“The error caused him to receive an incorrect voice message that he owed $2 million on his bill. We are correcting the error now and have resolved the issue to his satisfaction.”

 

 

 

 

 

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Sean focuses on multiple subject areas including 5G, 6G, Open RAN, hybrid cloud, edge computing, and Industry 4.0. Prior to his work at RCR, Sean studied journalism and literature at the University of Mississippi then spent six years based in Key West, Florida, working as a reporter for the Miami Herald Media Company. He currently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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