Verizon Wireless Sues 2 Telemarketing Firms
From Bloomberg News
Verizon Wireless has sued two telemarketing companies over claims they made hundreds of thousands of unsolicited calls to cellphone users.
In its lawsuits, Verizon accused Resort Marketing Trends of Coral Springs, Fla., and Intelligent Alternatives in San Diego of using automatic dialers and prerecorded messages to make hundreds of thousands of marketing calls to Verizon customers.
Under federal law, telemarketers are barred from calling customers on their cellphones without consent.
From Bloomberg News
* Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest U.S. mobile-phone services company, will spend as much as $900 million a year marketing its new brand.
