New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

Greg Boehnlein damin at nacs.net
Thu Aug 18 12:26:36 UTC 2005


On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Sean Donelan wrote:
 
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> > Sounds like the standard notice that all reputable ISPs are probably
> > already giving. Given the very real potential for grandma and grandpa to
> > pick a number off a list which looks like it is in their area code and end
> > up with a multi-thousand dollar phone bill the next month, I'm surprised
> > consumer protection folks haven't asked for such a requirement sooner.
> 
> I assume the NY AG will also be targeting enforcement of Domino's Pizza
> because they have lots of phone numbers and consumers may unknowingly dial
> a phone number to order a pizza which may be a toll call in their area.

The difference between a call to Dominos pizza and browsing the Web is 
that you usually don't make 200+ calls / month averaging 20 minutes in 
length to order pizza. If you do, I think you have an eating disorder! ;)

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