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Verizon Thinks Asia Is A Country
By 8.6.07
World's Longest Non-Stop Flights
By 7.16.07
If you’re traveling from Newark, NJ to Singapore… bring a book. You’ll be in the air for almost 19 hours on the longest flight in the world, according to Forbes magazine. Long-haul flights have become more common in the last 6 years, Forbes says, “There were 866 scheduled flights between Hong Kong International Airport and the U.S. or Canada in July 2001 vs. 1,000 scheduled for July 2007.”
Downloading Overseas? Here's Your $7,124 Cingular Bill
By 4.19.07
Using cell and data services overseas can be complicated and expensive as one Spokane financial planner recently discovered.
AT&T Stuck With 2 Million Dollar Bill for "Free" Iowa Phone Calls
By 2.7.07
When AT&T’s average monthly bill to one such Iowa telco, the Superior Telephone Cooperative, went from $2,000 to $2,000,000, it was time for Ma Bell to call the fine-suited folks at Sidley Austin LLP5 to try to close the loophole down….Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division, AT&T’s lawsuit seeks to stop FuturePhone as well as the telcos who provide local infrastructure from continuing with their operations that use regulatory-fee arbitrag1 and VoIP to provide international calls for only the price of a long-distance call to Iowa. Though the case was just filed on Jan. 29, it has already apparently caused FuturePhone to shutter its service, and has produced nothing but “no comment” replies from the Iowa LECs we contacted who were also named in the suit.
Party’s over, baby.—MEGHANN MARCO
Walmart Retreats From Germany
By 8.2.06
NYT reports Walmart wants to close its German stores, after years of failing to crack the Teutonic market.
International ATM Mystery Fees
By 12.13.05
Since it looks like we’re having a Bank of America day, have another mystery. Gawker jocker Scott Kidder took a five-dollar hit to his BoA account each time he got out money in Europe. Painful, but in an ‘all banks ream you for international ATM fees’ way. But there were always additional percentage-based charge with each transaction, and the BoA customer care couldn’t tell Scott where it came from.
