FCC Fines PTT Phone Cards for Violations of International Telecom Duties
The FCC hit PTT Phone Cards with a $493,327 penalty for violating international telecom provider duties for more than three years. Among the violations, PTT "failed to register as a provider, file required reports, and make required contributions to public…
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service programs," said the commission order released Monday and included in Tuesday's Daily Digest. It said PTT had argued that the penalty the agency proposed in a notice of apparent liability should be reduced or canceled because of the company's size, ability to pay, and what it said were "good faith efforts to comply with or aid the investigation." But the FCC found no basis to cancel, withdraw or reduce the proposed penalty. The agency order was approved 5-0, though Commissioner Mike O'Rielly questioned the commission's "perfunctory application of gross revenues as the basis for the forfeiture."