Unjust rivalry on the telephone facilities market

Everybody must realize that one minute consists of sixty seconds. But newly one of the IDT companies announced that most of companies, that sell calling cards, propose only 36 seconds instead of 60. IDT in juristic acts against some of their opponents declared that it is difficult to compete on a level playing field when a minute is not a minute. As different corporations-providers of prepaid phone cards resorted to the unjust rivalry procedures, IDT/UTA (Union Telecard Alliance) decided to defend their privileges utilizing the legal ways.

That is hard to realize, but several dishonest card promoters deliver just about 60% of minutes, that were paid for. In November 2007 Total Call International, Inc. and IDT/UTA have received a full settlement of the suit brought by IDT Telecom, Inc. and Union Telecard Alliance, LLC versus Total Call. That is the fourth group of accused that have settled the litigation commenced by IDT/UTA. Epana Networks, Inc., Dollar Phone Corp. and connected structures, and Locus Telecommunications, Inc are also involved into the trial. That unfinished action is being on approval in the federal tribunal in Newark, New Jersey. Newly I have found a post on one of prepaid telecom connected blogs where a softswitch developer demoed his system. Thereafter any user will singly determine the size of the minute, not to pay for the time he doesn't utilize. Moreover, they said that these rules are not their discovery, but are the standards for all prepaid calling cards companies. That is true, because revising all the recent advertising notices we can find the identical information.

If you can primitively count, that you can make a rough calculation how many units you will get on the account buying an international phone card. The ratio is 100 minutes by only $1! But remember to select the calling card carefully, and make sure that you have the quantity of units which you pay for. The companies, which have been involved into this story, engaged for returning all the units to their client as soon as possible. If the corporations, prosecuted by the judicial power, agreed the proposal faster, they will have a chance to be excluded from the roll of offenders. They should also agree to provide industry best usages and rules which defend consumers of prepaid card services and that establish a level playing field for all companies that sell, and supply telephone services for, pay beforehand cards. The methods, that will exactly control all the operations related to the pay beforehand cards, will be designed by these companies. The parties also assented to undertake efforts to promote such rules amid all pay beforehand card services and to promote independent tracing of correspondence with such rules.