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TeleCircuit Committed Slamming Violations, FCC Bureau Rules

FCC staff said TeleCircuit violated anti-slamming rules by changing consumers' preferred telecom providers without their consent. The Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau granted complaints after the company failed to respond. "TeleCircuit must remove all charges incurred for service provided to…

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Complainants for the first thirty days after the alleged unauthorized change" under liability rules, said an order in Wednesday's Daily Digest: "Any charges imposed by TeleCircuit on the subscribers for service provided after this 30-day period shall be paid by the subscribers to the authorized carrier at the rates the subscribers were paying to the authorized carriers" when the unauthorized change was made. The firm didn't comment.