DirecTV fined for do-not-call violations
DirecTV Inc. will pay $5.35 million to settle charges that its telemarketers called households listed on the national do-not-call registry to pitch satellite TV programming, Federal Trade Commission officials said Tuesday.
The proposed settlement, if approved by a federal judge in Los Angeles, would be the FTC’s largest civil penalty in a consumer protection case.
The DirecTV complaint, filed by the Department of Justice at the FTC’s request, named the company and five telemarketing firms it hired, as well as six principals of those firms.
“This multimillion-dollar penalty drives home a simple point: Sellers are on the hook for calls placed on their behalf,†FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras said in a statement.
The complaint alleged that DirecTV and the various telemarketing firms violated do-not-call rules beginning in October 2003, the month the registry debuted.
Source: MSNBC.
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