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Company: Advantage Telecommunications Corp.
Penalty: $1,000,000
Year: 2017
Date: April 25, 2017
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: telecommunications violation
Violation Description: The FCC issued a monetary forfeiture in the amount of $1,000,000 against Advantage Telecommunications Corp. for slamming consumers by changing their long distance carriers without proper authorization and cramming unauthorized charges onto their bills.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Communications Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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