1.   Bell Atlantic said it will bill customers directly or through credit cards.

2.   - Demanded a plan of corrective action from billing customers who generated high levels of cramming complaints.

3.   Both companies have begun billing customers under the new rates, which raise local charges and reduce international tolls.

4.   But while Oxford was struggling to accomplish the most basic of tasks, billing existing customers and paying doctors and hospitals, the company kept wooing new customers.

5.   Confusion about what customer gets billed for what service, he said, can lead to a pileup of accounts receivable that prove difficult to collect.

6.   Customers are now billed for these fees, which are referred to as pass-through charges.

7.   Evans said he finds it odd that GTE customers are being billed for an FTC service charge but not for long-distance calls.

8.   Five years ago, however, the retailer got a black eye when several states complained that its auto centers billed customers for unnecessary repairs.

9.   He added, however, that Compaq has softened its stance over the past few months and that few customers were being billed for technical support.

10.   I bill my customers in pesos.