Senators Blast Comcast, Other Cable Firms For "Unfair Billing Practices" (arstechnica.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 4, 2016 @01:02AM from the government-hates-competition dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Six Democratic US senators [Wednesday] criticized Comcast and other TV and broadband providers for charging erroneous fees, such as cable modem rental fees billed to customers who bought their own modems. The senators have written a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler asking the commission to 'stop unfair billing practices.'.....Last year, more than 30 percent of complaints to the FCC about Internet service and 38 percent of complaints about TV service were about billing...

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Seems legit. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-04 01:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Congress complaining about unfair billing practices? That's rich. They are the ones whom invented the 10,000 page omnibus budget bill, passed at midnight, without allowing anyone to read it.