April 25, 2008
Essential News About Telephone Services
Unfair competition on the telecommunication services market
Are you assured that there are 60 seconds in a minute? But correspondingly to IDT a lot of calling card corporations just give you 36 seconds in a minute. IDT in juristic proceedings against some of their rivals declared that it is difficult to vie on a level playing field if a minute is not a minute. Last year IDT/UTA (Union Telecard Alliance) iniciated a suit against some companies-providers of prepaid phone cards attributing false advertising and deceptive trade operations.
That is hard to realize, but several dishonest card promoters give only approximately 60% of time, that were paid for. Last year Total Call International and IDT/UTA was blamed for illegitimate actions by the group of phone corporations which comprised IDT Telecom Inc. and LLC. Earlier IDT/UTA started legal procedure versus the group of accused for three times. The other settling accused companies to date are Epana Networks, Inc., Dollar Phone Corp. and connected corporations, and Locus Telecommunications, Inc. IDT/UTA's lawsuit against the residuary defendants is still persisting in federal tribunal in Newark, New Jersey. Not long ago, one of softswitch manufacturers made public his advanced conditions of paying the telephone facilities. This new method allows any cutomer to define the size of the minute that suits him better, and the company will deduct minutes form the account and the customer will have an opportunity to check exactly how many minutes were deducted and how many are left. Furthermore, they mentioned that it is rule on every prepaid calling cards systems. I couldn't realize that it was true. But today when I found IDT communique, I understand that they were probably right.
So next time you see a international phone card for $20.00 that includes 2000 minutes and you think it is so good to be true - it probably is! But don't forget to choose the calling card carefully, and make sure that you get the quantity of units which you pay for. Customers will be given the units, they forfeited during the illegal actions, as a encouragement. If the corporations, prosecuted by the judicial power, accepted the proposal faster, they can have a ability to be moved of from the list of lawbreakers. They have to agree to provide industry good practices and standards that protect consumers of pay before hand card services and that establish a level playing field for all corporations that sell, and supply telecommunications services for, pay beforehand cards. The methods, that will exactly control all the actions related to the prepaid cards, will be designed by these corporations. All the companies reached the acceptance that every of them will do its best to resolve that problem as soon as possible.