World In My Eyes

Unjust competition on the telecommunication facilities market

Do you know that there are exactly 60 seconds in one minute? I was wondered to know that for some prepaid phone card developers one minute - only 36 seconds. According to the statement done by some IDT company, lots of telephone card corporations are become a party in unfair rivalry. Last year IDT/UTA (Union Telecard Alliance) commenced a lawsuit against several corporations-providers of prepaid phone cards alleging erroneous advertising and deceptive trade operations.

IDT/UTA had alleged that dissimilar its proper phone cards, those of many of their competitors supply just approximately 60 percent of the minutes of telephone services proposed and given on voice help heard by customers in connection with calls made by using the defendants' cards and advertised by such rivals on th TV, newspaper, poster, global network, or another medium. Recently Total Call International and IDT/UTA was charged with illegitimate procedures by the group of telephone corporations which comprised IDT Telecom Inc. and LLC. Before that IDT/UTA intiated enforcement procedure against the group of defendants for three times. The other settling defendants to date are Epana Networks, Inc., Dollar Phone Corp. and connected companies, and Locus Telecommunications, Inc. That unfinished suit is still on approval in the federal court in Newark, New Jersey. Not long ago, one of softswitch providers made known his new terms of paying the telephone services. From now on any user will independently set the size of the minute, not to pay for the time he doesn't utilize. Read the rest of this entry »