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Of the big six suppliers, Scottish Power is the worst offender, according to research by the comparison site uSwitch.com, which found 16% of the Glasgow-based firm's customers had been sent an incorrect bill in the past year.
When I recently received an incorrect bill from one of the major telecommunications companies, I couldn't resolve the problem over the phone -- first because I couldn't get a live person, and then because once I finally got a live person 30 minutes later, that person merely wanted to sell me new products and services, not solve my billing problem.
But some of those problems were extreme: One customer on auto pay had her bank account overdrawn because the incorrect bill was 12 times higher than normal.
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