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Unjust rivalry on the telecommunication services market

Everyone should realize that one minute is composed of sixty seconds. But newly one of the IDT corporations announced that lots of corporations, that provide calling cards, propose only 36 seconds in exchange of 60. A lot of world-known corporations asserted that there can't be any fair rivalry if one of competitors has got unfair advantages before the beginning of a competition. As some companies-providers of prepaid phone cards resorted to the unjust competition procedures, IDT/UTA (Union Telecard Alliance) decided to defend their rights using the legal ways.

IDT/UTA had asserted that different its proper phone cards, those of many of their competitors deliver only about 60 percent of the minutes of telephone services announced and given on voice prompts heard by consumers in connection with calls performed by utilizing the defendants' cards and advertised by such competitors on radio, newspaper, poster, internet, or other medium. In November 2007 Total Call International, Inc. and IDT/UTA have received a complete resolution of the suit brought by IDT Telecom, Inc. and Union Telecard Alliance, LLC versus Total Call. It is the fourth group of defendants which have settled the enforcement proceedings initiated by IDT/UTA. Epana Networks, Inc., Dollar Phone Corp. and connected companies, and Locus Telecommunications, Inc are also involved into the assize. That incomplete action is still on approval in the federal court in Newark, New Jersey. Newly I have found an article on one of telephone card related blogs where a softswitch producer demoed his system. Thereafter any client will independently set the length of the minute, to avoid payment for the time he doesn't use. Moreover, they declared that those principles are not their invention, but are the standards for all prepaid calling cards developers. That is true, because reviewing all the recent advertising notices we can find the same information.

So when you see a international phone card for $20.00 that includes 2000 minutes and you think it is so brilliant to be true - maybe it is! Please, choose the calling card properly to avoid the possibility of being cheated. Clients would be given the minutes, they lost during the illegal practices, as a encouragement. If the companies, prosecuted by the judicial authority, agreed the suggestion faster, they would have a ability to be excluded from the list of offenders. They have to agree to promote industry best practices and standards that defend customers of pay before hand card services and that establish a level playing field for all corporations that , and supply telephone services for, prepaid cards. They agreed to evolve standards and systems for testing the exactness of disclosures and denials made in relations to prepaid phone cards. All the corporations reached the acceptance that every of them will do its best to resolve that objective as soon as possible.

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