The legal process between telephone corporations
Are you assured that there are sixty seconds in one minute? But lately one of the IDT companies announced that most of companies, which sell calling cards, give just 36 seconds instead of 60. According to the statement done by some IDT corporation, a lot of telephone card companies are taking part in unfair competition. In 2007 IDT/UTA (Union Telecard Alliance) iniciated a lawsuit against some companies-providers of prepaid phone cards attributing erroneous advertisement and deceptive trade practices.
According to IDT media research, some of their rivals just provide 60 percent of the advertised minutes to the cutomer. In November 2007 Total Call International, Inc. and IDT/UTA have received a complete resolution of the suit brought by IDT Telecom, Inc. and Union Telecard Alliance, LLC versus Total Call. That brings to four the number of defendant groups which have settled the enforcement proceedings commenced by IDT/UTA earlier this year. Epana Networks, Inc., Dollar Phone Corp. and related structures, and Locus Telecommunications, Inc are also attracted into the trial. IDT/UTA's lawsuit versus the residuary accused is still continuing in federal court in Newark, New Jersey. Newly I saw a post on one of prepaid telecom related websites where a softswitch developer demoed his system. That new method allows every cutomer to determine the length of the minute that befits him better, and the system would deduct units form the balance and the user will have got an opportunity to examine exactly how many minutes were deducted and how many remain. Read the rest of this entry »