1.   Circuit City Stores Inc. said it will begin selling digital video-disc players and discs that automatically bill consumers according to how many times they watch a movie.

2.   Consumers are being billed for such services as prepaid calling cards, personal toll-free phone numbers, paging service and voice mail, Southwestern Bell officials said.

3.   Free Internet service has become big business in Europe, where consumers often are billed per minute for telephone service.

4.   LCI currently bills consumers for each six seconds of use, while Sprint Corp. and other competitors charge residential customers for each minute.

5.   LCI currently bills consumers for each six seconds of use, while Sprint Corp. and other competitors primarily charge residential customers for each minute.

6.   When December was much warmer than unusual, consumers were billed for pipeline charges regardless of how much gas they actually consumed.

7.   Currently, companies are charged by the government based on how much they bill consumers.

8.   Currently, companies are charged by the government based on how much they actually bill consumers.

9.   The company billed many consumers even though they never agreed to the charges or declined the offer.

10.   The goverment had in October ordered IWK, a unit of Berjaya group, to stop billing consumers indefinitely pending a review after customers complained about its excessive charges.