CGB Upholds Slamming Rulings
The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau denied petitions for reconsideration of findings of slamming by U.S. Telecom Long Distance, Consumer Telecom and Central Telecom Long Distance. Three orders on recon Monday (see here, here and here) affirmed Consumer Policy…
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Division findings that the carriers' verifiers in each of the 42 cases obscured the actual purpose of the calls in question when they didn't make clear that the change in long-distance service would result in service from a different carrier, a practice known as slamming. The recon petitions were filed in 2010, 2013 and 2014. The companies didn't comment.