Essential News On Telephone Companies
Unfair rivalry on the telecommunication facilities market
Are you assured that there are 60 seconds in one minute? But recently one of the IDT corporations declared that most of companies, that provide phone cards, give just 36 seconds instead of 60. IDT in legal proceedings against some of their opponents asserted that it is hard to compete on a level playing field when a minute is not one minute. IDT/UTA (Union Telecard Alliance) corporation decided to sue the different companies-providers of prepaid phone cards for the unjust competition conditions on a telephone services market.
According to IDT media research, some of their competitors only provide 60 percent of the declared minutes to the cutomer. In November 2007 Total Call International, Inc. and IDT/UTA have received a full settlement of the lawsuit brought by IDT Telecom, Inc. and Union Telecard Alliance, LLC versus Total Call. This brings to four the amount of accused groups that have settled the litigation initiated by IDT/UTA earlier this year. The other settling accused companies to date are Epana Networks, Inc., Dollar Phone Corp. and connected companies, and Locus Telecommunications, Inc. That incomplete action is still on approval in the federal tribunal in Newark, New Jersey. Recently I saw an article on one of prepaid telecom connected websites where a softswitch producer showed his project. One of the features he was proud of was the scope to determine the duration of the minute to as long as you want. Another feature was to randomly deduct a minute from the balance. (more…)