IT Connect “willfully and repeatedly” violated FCC rules...
IT Connect “willfully and repeatedly” violated FCC rules by “brokering 210 toll free numbers for fees ranging from $375 to $60,000 per number,” the FCC said in a notice of apparent liability for forfeiture released Wednesday (http://fcc.us/1p7qfQO). Selling toll-free numbers…
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by a private entity for a fee is against commission rules. The company had been cited in 2007 for “warehousing, hoarding, and brokering toll free numbers,” which are a “public resource” that are not owned by any individual or entity, the notice said. The company continued to sell toll-free numbers for the next several years, including to the Sokolove law firm, “for substantial fees,” the notice said. IT Connect and its owner, Richard Jackowitz, face a $3.36 million fine. The company did not comment.