The FCC plans to fine Central Telecom Long...
The FCC plans to fine Central Telecom Long Distance $3.9 million for deceptively switching customers’ services and for illegal billing practices, the agency said in a news release Monday. The FCC found that telemarketers for the Colorado telco allegedly tricked…
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consumers into believing that the telemarketers were calling on behalf of the consumers’ existing telephone companies, then changed the consumers’ preferred carriers without their authorization, the FCC said. Central Telecom did not comment.