They game the system too, but it's the three hundred you've never heard of that cause us to shit bricks. Most don't do a damn thing but run traffic over our network and slap their names on bills. The arcades are the worst.” “What're they?” “Telecom's equivalent of crack houses,” McCumber said. “They rent a line in a slum somewhere and charge a bunch of bastards too poor to own phones obscene rates to make calls. Their over-nineties can be killers.” “What's that?” “Debts owed MCI that're over ninety days past due. The way we track debt is current, meaning less than thirty days outstanding.
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