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Data Center Raid About Unpaid Telco Fees

Posted by timothy on from the that's-what-they-want-you-to-believe dept.

craig writes "CBS11 News reports that the raid on Core IP networks is in the result of an investigation into unpaid telco access fees paid by CLECs and VoIP carriers to terminate calls on their networks. They also report that this raid is linked to the March 12th raid on Crydon Technology's datacenter, which also hosted VOIP providers. Anyone in the telco business will tell you access fees to other carriers are a total mess and lots of carriers have unpaid balances out there. It gives you the feeling that the FBI is acting as a collection agency for AT&T and Verizon."

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  1. Favors by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It gives you the feeling that the FBI is acting as a collection agency for AT&T and Verizon

    Well, AT&T and Verizon did "favors" - Patriot Act - for the FBI, perhaps this is the FBI payin' them back?

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  2. Looking forward to more inflammatory articles by LordLimecat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So yesterday this very story was on how the FBI was acting as the RIAA's paid hitmen. Today we get a story about how theyre collection agents for AT&T (but no comments about wiretapping? im disappointed). I look forward to tomorrows article, Im sure it will be filled with useful, non-speculative bullshit. Incidentally, isnt it sort of in the FBI's realm to investigate large-scale fraud?

    1. Re:Looking forward to more inflammatory articles by j0nb0y · · Score: 5, Interesting

      /. wasn't upset because the FBI was enforcing the law. Most /.ers were upset because the FBI went in on a trumped up over-broad warrant and seized an entire data center. If they legitimately need to seize voip servers, that may be acceptable. But it's not okay to take servers of everyone who happened to be unfortunate enough to be leasing servers in the same datacenter.

      There's another angle to this as well. Would the FBI ever seize telco equipment that belonged to an ILEC? No. The FBI and the courts would recognize that telephone is an essential service, and you can't just cut off someone's telephone service because their provider has been naughty. So if that's true for an ILEC, why isn't it true for a voip provider? Telephone delivered via voip is still an essential service. It's the best way to request emergency services (911). So why did the FBI cut off voip service to customers because their provider had been naughty? This is seriously unacceptable behavior.

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  3. errr by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'm still not sure the force exerted was necessary. Something else has to be going on here.

    First the Wolverine story from yesterday, now this? I find it hard to believe that this is really over some unpaid bills.

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