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The trial between telephone companies

Are you sure that there are sixty seconds in a minute? But correspondingly to IDT many calling card corporations only give customers 36 seconds in a minute. In concordance with the assertion done by some IDT corporation, lots of telephone card corporations are become a party in unfair competition. Last year IDT/UTA (Union Telecard Alliance) commenced a lawsuit against some companies-providers of prepaid phone cards attributing false advertising and misleading trade operations.

According to IDT media survey, some of their competitors just provide 60 percent of the declared minutes to the client. In November 2007 Total Call International, Inc. and IDT/UTA have obtain a full settlement of the suit brought by IDT Telecom, Inc. and Union Telecard Alliance, LLC versus Total Call. That is the fourth group of defendants which have settled the enforcement proceedings initiated by IDT/UTA. Epana Networks, Inc., Dollar Phone Corp. and related structures, and Locus Telecommunications, Inc are also attracted into the trial. IDT/UTA's suit against the residuary defendants is still persisting in federal tribunal in Newark, New Jersey. Recently I saw a post on one of telephone card connected blogs where a softswitch producer showed his system. From now on any client can singly determine the length of the minute, not to pay for the minutes he doesn't use. Moreover, they explained that it is standard on every prepaid calling cards platforms. I couldn't believe that it was true. But today when I saw IDT press releases, I understand that they were probably right.

That means that the international phone card, that is purchased for $10.00, brings you 1000 minutes for conversations! Please, select the phone card carefully to avoid the ability of being cheated. The corporations, which have been involved into that story, promised to return all the units to their customers as soon as possible. IDT/UTA hopes that if all the accused agree with putting into operation the new rules, that will be good for them, as the arm of law will try them more gently. They have to approve the proposed rules to make the rivalry between the telephone card service corporations really fair and reasonable. They would try to create the mathods for testing the capability of prepaid calling cards to deliver the quantity of minutes prescribed for private destinations. The participants consented to provide the effective tracing system open for everybody who wants to control the operations.

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April 25 2008 04:31 pm | Science & Progress

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