AT&T Reacts to FPSC.HOLLYWOOD, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1998--Below is AT&T's reaction to today's actions regarding AT&T's offer to settle the Florida Public Service Commission's (FPSC FPSC Florida Public Service Commission FPSC Financial Planners Standards Council (Canada) FPSC Field Programmable System Chip (Lucent Technologies) FPSC Fundación Promoción Social de la Cultura ) show cause docket regarding slamming The unauthorized switching of your long distance telephone provider. Unethical marketing organizations contact the local telephone company and claim that certain customers have authorized them to handle their long distance. . This statement may be attributed to Ken McNeely, AT&T vice president of law & government affairs - Florida: "We commend com·mend tr.v. com·mend·ed, com·mend·ing, com·mends 1. To represent as worthy, qualified, or desirable; recommend. 2. To express approval of; praise. See Synonyms at praise. 3. the Florida Public Service Commission Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) is an independent regulatory agency serving the public of Florida by managing its public utilities such as telecommunications, electricity, natural gas, water, and wastewater. (FPSC) Staff for its zealous attempt to protect consumers but the fines proposed are clearly inappropriate, especially since no other long-distance company has done more to curb this industry wide problem. The fines recommended today are clearly inconsistent with those fines recently accepted by the FPSC and paid by other long-distance carriers for the same alleged violations. "AT&T is committed to a zero tolerance policy zero tolerance policy Substance abuse A stance taken by US government, that any type of drug abuse is punishable by incarceration. See Correctional facility, War on Drugs. against slamming and the Staff and Commission are aware that in March of this year AT&T voluntarily proposed some new anti-slamming initiatives which included setting up a 24-hour slamming resolution center as well as suspending the use of certain marketing firms who were not meeting our strict standards. We look forward to further review of our case with Staff." |
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