Cellphone Users to Get Billing Alerts Under New Voluntary Standards [telecom]

Cellphone Users to Get Billing Alerts Under New Voluntary Standards

By AMY SCHATZ OCTOBER 17, 2011

WASHINGTON-Wireless-phone customers will begin receiving real-time alerts next year if they are about to go over their monthly voice, data or text-message limits under new voluntary industry standards set to be announced on Monday.

Wireless-phone customers will begin receiving real-time alerts next year if they are about to go over their monthly voice, data or text-message limits under new voluntary industry standards. Amy Schatz has details on Lunch Break.

Wireless carriers have agreed to send warnings to consumers in danger of exceeding their monthly subscriber minutes or data plans under a deal with the Federal Communications Commission. The companies will provide the alerts to consumers within 12 to 18 months, FCC officials said.

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