Pac Bell Fesses Up

SBC Pacific Bell (Pac Bell) has acknowledged incorrectly billing up to 70,000 customers for DSL, Internet access they never asked for nor received. The proposed settlement, a whopping 27 million, would be "the largest [fine] ever levied by state utility regulators, surpassing the $25.6 million Pac Bell was fined last year for misleading marketing tactics." Pac Bell's response: "And for our next trick..."