Spam filter cost schools $250,000 as tender blocked
Schools in Cobb County USA will have to pay more than $250,000 extra for their phone services after a leading bid was caught in a spam filter.
Elite Telecom Services bid for the contract to provide telephone services to the school system and undercut the next best bidder, BellSouth by $250,000.
But his bid never made it to the school on time and the school’s administrators are blaming an over enthusiastic spam filter. But some smell something fishy...
Read the full story (The Inquirer)
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