Carriers Charged With Misleading Ads, Charges
Jul 22, 2005, 10:33 AM by (staff)
updated Nov 15, 2007, 6:17 PM
New York City Department of Consumer Affairs has recently charged all national carriers of deceptive advertising. The charges accuse each carrier of advertising a rate plan or feature for one price in large print and then including additional charges or restrictions in small type or elsewhere. Verizon and Cingular have settled charges with the department, but Sprint, Nextel and T-Mobile are allowing their cases to proceed to court. In California, complaints have been filed with the Public Utilities Commission against Cingular and Sprint for charging customers for unsolicited text or multimedia message advertisements sent from the carriers themselves.
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Who doesnt do this?
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"You can't promise a great deal in the headline and hide the true costs in the fine print," the consumer agencies' Acting Commissioner Jonathan Mi
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wfine81 said:...
Doesnt every single company in every single feild do the same thing? I mean look at any car zdvertising commercial they have a huge disclaimer at the bottom of the screen that is in microscopic print. Every company ha
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pcrisp07 said:...
what! they didn't include their mandatory cost recovery fee for government mandates in their headline, and now a government agency is pressing charges, I can understand a lawsuit for unsolicited text messages being c
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Personally, I think that cell phone companies should be forced to give non-tax "regulatory" fees equal prominence in advertisin...
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Now, anybody he...
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