21.   Telephone companies in California could soon begin billing customers for everything from magazine subscriptions to take-out meals under a little-noticed change in state law, experts said.

22.   Telefonica decided to stop billing its customers until the Supreme Court ruled on the legality of the changes, which increased rates for local services and cut long-distance charges.

23.   The cost to bill customers and receive online payment is one-third to one-half that, he estimated.

24.   The company said it would begin billing some customers in Florida, Texas and California directly for long-distance service.

25.   The firm then billed its customers, who were government agencies, for reimbursement for the fuel sales tax, he said.

26.   The indictment alleges that the scheme defrauded a San Antonio, Texas, billing firm that processed call information and local telephone companies that billed individual customers.

27.   The scheme involves billing customers for services they did not order or receive through their GTE telephone bills.

28.   The telephone company, based in St. Louis, bills customers on behalf of long-distance companies and has a responsibility to help resolve complaints.

29.   Williams and Foerschler bill their customers after the truck is weighed at the recycling center.

30.   PETALING JAYA, Mon. - Hotels have until October to start billing customers according to a nett charge instead of indicating charges for service and Government tax.