French woman gets phone bill for 12 quadrillion euros

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Euro sign and water tap
Euro sign and water tap

AP Photo/Michael Probst

Solenne San Jose, from Pessac near Bordeaux, got quite a shock when she opened a telephone bill for almost 12 quadrillion euros - that's almost 6,000 times the country's annual economic output.

So what went wrong, and is this the craziest billing mistake of recent years?
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