What would you expect: Major phone billing mistake

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In a nutshell:
My wife's grandfather has been paying for someone else TV service (the equivalent to Sky) for the past 28months! :eek:
How? Lot's of factors, he has a bundled phone service and the TV service is part of that bundle, it is automatically debited from his a/c each month.
He is an old man going through cancer (brain tumor) right now and not very well :(
I have spoken with the TV and phone company and they agreed it is their mistake and they have incorrectly been debiting his a/c every month for 2yrs and 4months at roughly $72-100p/m!!
So it is in excess of $2k that he is owed.

What would you expect from the above situation? Money back? Compensation? Credit note etc?
I am absolutely livid with them right now that this sort of thing happens, and is becoming a nightmare just trying to get anywhere (been 2hrs on the phone this morning).

If I had not noticed his phone bill on his desk and go, '**** Stan why are you paying so much for a phone bill?' how long would it of continued I wonder?
 
Why? I think it's completely unsurprising it went on for 2 years. It gets set up, no one queries it, why would the tv company review anything when it doesn't appear to be wrong?

I know it is all automated these days, but how I have no idea, it has all kinds of different names on the a/c (ones I have never heard of) the bill is being sent here, the service is being sent there kind of thing. Very strange.
 
However..... A quick call to them
This does not exist I am finding out!!
They are being extremely unhelpful in resolving the matter. Some give me information, and some don't, some put me on hold for ages, some don't. I have phoned 4 times and each time I have had to explain and each time we go a different direction lol
Trying to get someone to help you is nigh on impossible :mad:
 
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