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FCC Comr. Ness criticized decision of long distance carriers to a...

FCC Comr. Ness criticized decision of long distance carriers to assess billing fee on consumers for combined local and long distance bill. Ness said in statement Thurs.: “I am particularly troubled -- as all consumers should be -- by…

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reports that some carriers did not notify consumers in advance so that consumers could have avoided these charges.” She said FCC Enforcement Bureau should investigate whether line-item charges “are consistent with our truth-in-billing rules, unreasonable or unreasonably inflated.”