Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said he will soon offer legislation...
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said he will soon offer legislation banning unauthorized third-party charges on customers’ landline bills, a practice known as “cramming.” The Senate Commerce Committee chairman plans to introduce the bill “in the coming days,” he said Wednesday.…
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Rockefeller had said he was working on a bill at a hearing last summer, following a Senate Commerce investigation on cramming (CD July 14 p5). Also, Rockefeller praised Verizon’s announcement earlier this month that it would ban cramming on its network and offer full refunds to affected customers (CD March 2 p11). “I hope [Verizon] will move as quickly as possible to put this pro-consumer policy in place, and I strongly and urgently call on other companies to follow their lead,” Rockefeller said. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., urged AT&T and CenturyLink to follow Verizon’s example, in letters sent Wednesday.