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Phone Bill Issues

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Teletruth has done extensive research on phone bills, including surveys and phone bill auditing.

• Phone Bill Independence Report: This report is an 2 year investigation into Verizon New York and New Jersey Phone bills.
• The Dirty Little Secret Lives of Phone Bills Released in April, 2004, this is a fact-based novel/expose on phone bill issues, including everything from how to read your phone bill, to why there are all those little taxes and surcharges added.
• Get ready to be nickeled, dimed and quartered again! The FCC is planning on raising the FCC Line Charge, on every customers' wireline phone bill to $10 a month. We show that the FCC's data is wrong and this charge should be lowered, if not removed.
• Teletruth Files Data Quality Act Complaint and Truth-in Billing Complaint About the FCC Line Charge. We beleive this charge is bogus. It doesn't go to the FCC but is umarked revenue to the phone companies.
• Class Action Suits taken with the Help of Teletruth in New Jersey--- First Case Settled. Teletruth's data found that 40% of small businesses in New Jersey were missing their discounts. This case was settled in April 2004.
• Teletruth received a Grant from California Protection Fund to study phone bills in with UCAN, a public Advocacy group.

More Links: 

• 1 Comments at the NASCUA Declaratory Truth-in-Billing Petition, July 2004
• http://www.teletruth.org/docs/CommentsFCCTIB.pdf
• FREE Phonebill audits, 2002 – 2003
• http://www.newnetworks.com/PRSendphonesbills.htm
• 2 Class Action suits initiated,Teletruth members are acting as consultants, 2002-2004
• http://www.newnetworks.com/class_action_suits_against.htm.
• 48 NJ phonebill Audits and Truth-in-Billing Complaints filed with FCC,2002.
• 48 "Truth in Billing" Complaints filed with the NJ Dept. of Trans. and Energy, 2002
• 1 proposed bill in New Jersey Legislature on phone bill issues, 2002
• 1 FCC Comments over Long Distance, NJ and "OSS" issues, 2002 http://www.teletruth.org/docs/NJ271commentsBK.doc
• "FCC Subscriber Line Charge" complaint, 2001 http://www.newnetworks.com/pressslccomplaint.htm
• Portability Charge Petition, 2001 http://www.newnetworks.com/New%20Portability%20Petition.htm
• Portability Horror Story, 2002 http://www.teletruth.org/About/newsletter/Portabilitynightmare.htm
• "Truth in Billing" laws, 2002
• http://www.newnetworks.com/FCC_CC_98-170.txt