Tag: Cramming
News highlights for 11 December Top tech executives to attend Trump summit on Wednesday: Recode NEW YORK (Reuters) – Top executives from Alphabet Inc, Apple Inc and Facebook Inc are among a small group of tech leaders invited to a summit to be held on Wednesday by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Recode reported, citing sources. […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans a $2.4 million fine against Long Distance Consolidated Billing Company. This telephone company, based in Waterford, Michigan, allegedly switched consumers’ regional toll service providers without their authorization (“slamming”), misrepresented the company’s identity during telemarketing calls, and placed unauthorized charges on consumers’ telephone bills (“cramming”). “It is unacceptable for any company to pad unauthorized charges […]
The Federal Communications Commission has fined GPSPS, Inc., an Atlanta, GA telephone company, $9,065,000 for switching consumers’ long distance carriers without their authorization (‘slamming), billing consumers for unauthorized charges (‘cramming’), and submitting falsified evidence to government regulatory officials as “proof” that consumers had authorized the company to switch their long distance providers. “Companies that engage […]
Many CSPs are now offering ‘carrier billing’ to third party content and digital service providers as a means of generating new revenues. What sounded like a perfectly logical business option has created some unforeseen issues that are costing some of them dearly. For those lumbering with unwieldy legacy billings systems, many no longer being supported […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge said on Tuesday he would not approve a proposed $50 million settlement between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Sprint Corp over claims the mobile carrier added unauthorised charges to phone bills unless the two sides provide additional details about its fairness. In an order filed in New […]
While T-Mobile has been busy becoming the ‘Uncarrier,’ it’s been leading a double life. The carrier that’s been going out of its way to show it’s not your typical carrier – including eliminating overage fees and not charging streaming music against data plans – has been accused by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of cramming. […]
AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint have signed an agreement brokered by the Vermont Attorney General’s office to stop billing for premium SMS (pSMS). Verizon did not sign up but is already executing its strategy to stop the practice. The objective is to stop cramming, a scam that has targeted two thirds of Americans in the past […]
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