Do Not Call List Operator AT&T Leads In Complaints
from the questionable-motives dept
As we get closer to actually having a national "do no call" list to finally give us some peace and quiet from telemarketers, AT&T has been chosen to manage the list. There's just one problem with this assignment: AT&T is the company with the most amount of complaints for its telemarketing practices. Nearly 6,000 complaints were filed with the FCC about AT&T's telemarketing practices in the last three years alone. Even worse, more than one-fifth of those complaints said that AT&T did not heed requests to be put on the company's own "do not call" list. AT&T says the complaints are because they're so large, and occasionally things fall through the cracks. Of course, none of this really matters because AT&T won't be among the companies that are held to the "do not call" list. As a telecom firm, it's telemarketing practices are regulated by the FCC - and not the FTC.
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AT&T will be subject to the same rules
AT&T simply won't be exempt from the rules. The stats AT&T's problems are there only because the FCC has been hounding them.
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anormous phone bill charges
That is not enough all the illegal immigrants make phone calles to their homeland on my dime because AT&T stilles from us to give lower rates to so called poor. If they are so poor why are they making phone calles all over the world when I am being charged $1,186.92 for $22.23 phone call for the entire month. And when I complain they say I am not a good person and I don't understand. What is there not to understand that I am not an idiot and I don't like to let the AT&T to take advantage of me that is why?
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do not csll list
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