I opened my land line bill today. A voicemail/ID theft provider (ESBI, apparently a billing agent of "My Info Guard") decided to bill me for a service that wasn't requested.
Pre-divestiture, charges like this simply didn't exist (unless some jerk happened to bill his/her long distance calls to a random phone number).
Is there a land line carrier that allows a consumer complete control over what can or can't be billed to a line? If not, what mechanisms are missing from the land line providers that cell companies apparently have to "lock out" such billings?
-d