European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yaj Marie Hill financial advisor Del american e a e problem in Germany. Is photo Nch by Marynett consumer editor in Germany complaints about hug Telephone Bills Are an everyday Story to american financial  Are spoiled says Marie Hill of the Heidelberg army Community service acs office. They Are used to reaching for the phone without  under the German phone system that can Lead to disaster. Hill has had clients with Bills As High As 10.000 Marks. At 2.65 Marks to a Dollar that s s3.773. In Frankfurt. Acs Counselor Donna Spaniel had a client with a Telephone Bill of 9,000 Marks $3.396. At Aschaffenbur acs. Sgt. Bruce Trost who has been advising americans with Money problems nearly three years remembers a client who had a Bill for 10,000 Marks. Judy Low acs coordinator in Giessen. Has seen one for 3.500 Marks $1,320. Such Bills Are received Wilh Shock and anger. In a letter to the stars and stripes a Serviceman s wife who had been charged 6,979 Marks $2,633 for a month s Calls cried unfair. Americans Are being taken advantage of by the German Telephone company she wrote. In her letter she noted that she and her husband had had Many guests during the Billing period and that before an emergency leave to the ., they had discovered one of the apartment keys was missing. Despite the suspicion that someone could have used the phone without her knowledge or while the family was gone she was refusing to pay. We put in applications for telephones and charges for \ main connection \ \ additional equipment and special Telephone sets installation and modification charges local extended local and dlr oct Deal Long distance service number Ottri arguable unit chargeable total answering services charges on connection fees charges surcharge for delayed payment reminder Lees. Enforcement costs interest reimbursement for video text service charges Tor manually switched trunk Calls and telegrams amount payable Date of meter Reading Date of mailing monthly charges for lines and circuits connection and modification charges other monthly charges radio registration Etc amount carried Forward from previous Bill j total turnover tax sum of turn Over tax from blocks 2. 3, 9,10 and 20 chargeable printed lines reimbursement delivery charge for official Telephone credit and telex directories Page 14 charges for special services overdue charges blocking charges Etc the stars and stripes receive monthly a fils you ask the phone a when and who these produce this informs Hill and other Iran such indignant react realize she says the different from that in differently from Gem the greatest dds German systems is German Federal pc telecommunication Duce itemized Tel Eph instead Calls am counted by a Meta i electricity. Then one photographically Rea under the German much calling to run u teen Ager used too himself a Coke and friends can wreak i if the Call is before around 60 Kil Meten pfennings a minute i Marks close to $8. Amer Lam Oam correctly Points out standing. There Are two a the Bill was mailed � which indicates that charged Are cover the Bill May be i for a few Days in Sef september  Hill says that men to her saying they if distance Calls into complain that the it say. They Adi assume it was a the Largo Bill in Sef expensive Tei Euplid family separation in one of the 10,0 leaving her Hub to pay the phone w running it up a Tom military fam a could save Money stateside Calls w Mars Tun i the Only charg1  From the Nea a.  As to a Bill to seems in error or immediate