F.C.C. Is Told Verizon Underpaid Data Refunds
F.C.C. Is Told Verizon Underpaid Data Refunds
WASHINGTON — An independent telecommunications lawyer filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, claiming that Verizon Wireless had vastly understated the amount it collected from false data charges on customer bills when it agreed to refund the levies in 2010.
The lawyer, Arthur V. Belendiuk, of Washington, said in a petition for investigation that Verizon and F.C.C. documents obtained through a Freedom of Information request contained evidence indicating that the company might have taken $240 million or more from the false charges, more than four times the almost $53 million it agreed to refund.
A Verizon spokesman, Torod B. Neptune, said that the allegations were without merit, and declined to comment further. F.C.C. officials and the Office of the Inspector General declined to comment.
The Verizon charges came to light in 2009 in articles in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer and The New York Times.
Thousands of Verizon Wireless customers had been complaining about mysterious $1.99 data charges on their cellphone bills. The customers said they had not used the Internet connection function on their phones; some demonstrated to Verizon employees that the charges had occurred randomly, often when the phone was turned off or the battery removed, and at times on accounts that did not have a phone capable of connecting to the Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/business/fcc-is-told-verizon-underpaid-data-refunds.html?partner=yahoofinance&_r=0
Hell, you would think the government would know this ahead of time if they were tracking everything 
Either they are not as smart as we think they are or they are so focused on you and me they just ignore the real crimes going on....
