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allegedly charging customers for unauthorized mobile content

Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Verizon, US Cellular and Alltel

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Sprint Nextel and other wireless service carriers including T-Mobile, Verizon, US Cellular and Alltel have allegedly charged their cell phone customers for mobile content without the customer's authorization. (Mobile content includes ringtones; premium text messaging services; joke-a-day programs; sports scores; horoscopes; weather reports; games; wallpaper and screensavers, and more.)

Mobile content is sold by mobile content providers (which number in the hundreds) to consumers through their cellular telephones. The charges for such products appear on the consumers' cell phone bills as separate line-item charges.

Many of these mobile content providers charges consumers' cell phone bills without obtaining consent. Several lawsuits are currently pending which attempt to correct this issue.

A lawsuit filed in Lyon County, Kansas against Sprint Nextel claims that Sprint has not adopted procedures requiring customer authorization before the charges are assessed. It states that potential violations of existing laws include the failure to make required disclosures about cell phone charges and "cramming," i.e., charging for products and services never expressly authorized by cell phone users.

The Sprint case is one of more than 30 similar cases throughout the country involving third-party mobile content providers. Currently, lawyers are investigating the billing practices of other wireless service carriers besides Sprint Nextel to determine if customers have been improperly charged and billed for third party mobile content they allegedly never ordered. Lawyers believe certain wireless service carriers have violated state consumer protection laws as well as common law for breach of contract.

If you have received unauthorized charges on your Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Verizon, US Cellular or Alltel cell phone bill you may be entitled to recover money.

[AN INTERVIEW WITH JAY EDELSON]

Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Verizon and Alltel in the News

JUN-03-08: AT&T has settled a lawsuit regarding third party cellphone content including ringtones, news and other alerts. [REUTERS: CELLPHONE CONTENT]

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