Dish Network faces payout of as much as $60M for illegal robocalls [telecom]

By Daniel Frankel, FierceCable, May 25, 2017

A federal judge in Raleigh, North Carolina, has tripled the amount of money Dish Network must pay 50,000 state residents on the federal Do Not Call registry after the satellite TV company illegally robocalled them.

The ruling ups individual payouts by Dish to $1,200 per person, resulting in a total payout of as much as $60 million.

In January, a jury decided to give $400 to each individual on the registry impacted by the Dish telemarketing campaign. According to Associated Press, however, Judge Catherine C. Eagles ruled earlier this week that the award should be increased to $1,200 per person.

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