Sprint, Charter Slamming Complaints Dismissed
The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau reversed and tossed out slamming complaints against Sprint Nextel and Charter Communications. In the Sprint order on reconsideration Monday, the bureau said the company billed the complainant for usage on its network, but…
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Sprint didn't request a switch of the complainant's line and thus didn't violate slamming rules. In the Charter order on recon Monday, the agency said that as a provider of interconnected VoIP services the company isn't subject to slamming rules and the service involved in the two 2011 complaints was VoIP.