FCC 4-1 Slaps Carrier With $2.32 Million Fine for Slamming, Cramming
The FCC 4-1 fined a carrier $2.32 million for deceptive marketing practices, it ordered Thursday. Long Distance Consolidated Billing allegedly switched consumers’ carriers without authorization and added unauthorized charges -- slamming and cramming. It's a non-facilities-based interexchange carrier. Telemarketers pretended…
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to represent providers “to trick the business or consumer into switching providers,” the agency said. Commissioners adopted the order Tuesday with Mike O'Rielly partly dissenting. “By engaging in slamming, the carrier automatically engaged in cramming," he said. "I am opposed to imposing additional fines for cramming purportedly arising from a slamming transaction." The company didn’t comment.