Cramming plagues wireless bills, the National Association of State Utility...
Cramming plagues wireless bills, the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA) told the FCC. “An analysis of nearly five million wireless lines by NASUCA member and Chicago-based Citizens Utility Board (CUB), in conjunction with Houston-based wireless industry research…
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group Validas, showed a total potential cost to U.S. consumers due to wireless cramming of up to $59 million annually,” it said in a Wednesday ex parte comment (http://xrl.us/bn8w73). The analysis’s methods were “very conservative,” it said, focusing on companies subject to phone-fraud litigation. The average crammed charge was $5.10 monthly, the analysis showed. Delaware has also begun targeting the problem, the association added. NASUCA said the data supports its earlier recommendations to the FCC, which sought an explicit ban on the practice.