“Right now it is easy and very...

“Right now it is easy and very cost effective for these people to become customers and use our system to hurt people. Since I can’t stop them from becoming customers and since I can’t volunteer information about who they are to the police or law enforcement until the police or law enforcement give me a subpoena or search warrant to get the information, the only way left to us was financial in nature.”

--Mary Hawkins, general manager for Metromedia Paging Services in Southern California, on the company’s proposal to discourage drug dealers from using its service by increasing charges for customers receiving more than 1,000 calls a month.