Telecommunications giant WorldCom will pay $3.5 million to settle charges that it illegally switched customers’ telephone carriers, in the largest such payment ever collected by the Federal Communications Commission, according to wire service reports.
The settlement with the nation’s second largest long-distance carrier resolves an inquiry by the commission into consumer complaints about the practice known as “slamming”- changing customer’s carriers without their permission often spurred on by telemarketing efforts..
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