FCC: AT&T's LD Cards Quack Like Regular LD, Owe USF, etc.

"Washington, D.C. - The Federal Communications Commission Wednesday found that AT&T Corp. unlawfully avoided paying millions of dollars of universal service contributions and other fees related to a long-distance calling card service marketed by the company.

"The Commission rejected an assertion by AT&T that its practice of inserting advertisements in the calling card service transformed it into an unregulated 'information service' not subject to universal service assessments. The advertisements are incidental to the underlying telecommunications service offered to the cardholder, the Commission found, and do not change the regulatory status of the service ...

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