Article: Answering the Call

Laura Bernstein and Bob Varady say there are three bills no one can read: the electric bill, the tax bill, and the phone bill.

It's the last of these that the business partners, co-owners of CRA - Cost Recovery Associates Inc., in Holyoke - chose to tackle after years of cumulative experience in the telecommunications industry.

"We knew a lot about the phone business, and we saw a need for a service that was more beneficial to the end-user," said Bernstein. "And where there is confusion, there is profit."

And that's where CRA comes in.

The Telecommunications Society of America estimates that U.S. businesses accrue more than $47 billion in costs due to errors in billing every year, and ...

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