Enforcement Bureau Probing Complaint Against Verizon Wireless
The FCC Enforcement Bureau established a pleading cycle Thursday on a complaint by Paperkidd Productions & Publishing and Jarrell Curne alleging Verizon Wireless’s offerings of phone service violate “the Communications Act’s prohibition against unjust and unreasonable discrimination.” A June complaint…
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said Verizon “violated Sections 201(b), 202, 205, 206, 207, 215, 217, and 218 of the Act, by failing to furnish communication services upon reasonable request.” The complaint seeks damages totaling $101.5 million. The bureau instructed Verizon to file its request for interrogatories and “serve an answer to the complaint that complies with this Notice of Formal Complaint” by July 18. The pleading cycle wraps up Aug. 8. The docket is 18-140. Verizon didn't comment.