As it was not possible to send bills to the customers until they were on the new system, it was anticipated that BTC would experience some considerable disruption in its revenue stream. In order to lessen this burden, data that had been accepted to the system was to be used to send out bills as soon as possible so that BTC could collect revenue pertaining to those customers. However, due to the delays referred to above, BTC was unable to send out the majority of its bills, thus depriving themselves of far more revenue than it had anticipated.