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Ars Technica reported a few months ago that the practice of slamming still lives on. Slamming involves the deceptive switching of a customer’s voice carrier. It is one of those minor protections spelled out in Title II of the Communications Act.

By the way, the specific rule is covered in  section 201 ( “any such charge, practice, classification, or regulation that is unjust or unreasonable is declared to be unlawful” ) and is one of  the six sections that will be applied to cable broadband providers in the FCC’s novel third way approach.

So it is disturbing to read that AT&T was caught  slamming customers in Illinois. On Friday, the FCC granted a complaint against AT&T for switching a customer of Unitel Communications without first receiving authorization.

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