Talk Was Cheap in Kuwait Phone Snafu
From Reuters
KUWAIT —
Talk was inexpensive in Kuwait last month.
A glitch in a telephone exchange let long-distance calls in parts of June and July go unregistered, the Communications Ministry said.
The gulf state’s newspapers said Sunday that records for as many as half a million calls may have been lost, with the cost running into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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